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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / May 2007Steam® Surpasses 13 Million Accounts
http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 "MAY 23, 2007 - Valve® today announced that Steam, the Bellevue, WA based company's pioneering PC platform for digital content, has surpassed 13 million active accounts. With over 150 games in a broad selection of genres and dozens of other PC applications, movies, and demos available, Steam has become a leading destination for millions of gamers around the world."  SignatureAndrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. > http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > demos available, Steam has become a leading destination for millions > of gamers around the world." Not too shabby for a Co that never advertises for new talent, has an old Quake engine, is unreliable, doesn't have enough servers and could go out of business at any moment... erm, should we believe comments in NG's over the last year about Valve that is... > Not too shabby for a Co that never advertises for new talent, has an old > Quake engine, is unreliable, doesn't have enough servers and could go > out of business at any moment... erm, should we believe comments in NG's > over the last year about Valve that is... I wish Valve had stuck to Valve games and demo's. At least with Valve you can be sure of good quality. Opposing Force and Blue Shift (which werent done by Valve) excluded. /grumble Crossposting muppets >> http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >out of business at any moment... erm, should we believe comments in NG's >over the last year about Valve that is... Impressive, even though most of them were probably created just to play HL1 Counterstrike that was not bought through Steam. ;^P I had a Steam account already when the only games they offered in Steam were Half-life 1 and Project Gordon (the free HL spinoff game, 2D platform). Steampowered.com listed 135 games. Close enough to the alleged 150 titles, I guess. Anyway, since we are talking about numbers, by a quick count Direct2drive.com offers 241 PC games, which don't include any PopCap java-games either. D2D also has movies, TV shows, comics etc., so by the numbers it is obviously much more successful than Steam, right? > Direct2drive.com offers 241 PC games, which don't include > any PopCap java-games either. D2D also has movies, TV shows, comics > etc., so by the numbers it is obviously much more successful than > Steam, right? Except that the specialized format that D2D uses for games doesn't allow you to install unofficial patches or mods, which is as dumb as a bag of rocks in my opinion. P Signature-pm http://oceanclub.blogspot.com "It is said that at the age of 55 each man becomes what he most despised at the age of 25. I live in constant fear lest I become a badly organised trip to Bournemouth." > http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > demos available, Steam has become a leading destination for millions > of gamers around the world." And ya gotta know, Ol Gabe is a mighty riiiiiich man now. McG. > http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > demos available, Steam has become a leading destination for millions > of gamers around the world." Is that all? Given that AFAIK there were 6 million copies of Half-Life sold before the budget version was released, several years ago, I thought there would be more... Civilian_Target > http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > demos available, Steam has become a leading destination for millions > of gamers around the world." Sorry to see it, but I see this as nothing more than a needless and inflammatory post. I think by now that Steam has been debated more than it needs to be and that 99% of people have already decided if they consider Steam acceptable or not. >> http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > needs to be and that 99% of people have already decided if they consider > Steam acceptable or not. A lot of people don't like Half Life, but people are still free to post about it. It is on topic to discuss a delivery system for action games in this NG. >>> http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > post about it. It is on topic to discuss a delivery system for action > games in this NG. STEAM SUX0RZ B1A7CH AHAHAHA!!!!1!!!2!!!! j/k! *runs!* ;) Signature-- * I always hope for the best. Experience, unfortunately, has taught me to expect the worst. Yahoo: evilbill_agqx Web: http://www.evilbill.org.uk >> http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=1050 >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Sorry to see it, but I see this as nothing more than a needless and > inflammatory post. News about a successful gaming venture is needless and inflammatory? Are you responding to the right post? *Mine* was needless and inflammatory... ;-) > I think by now that Steam has been debated more than it > needs to be and that 99% of people have already decided if they consider > Steam acceptable or not. 99% of people? Does that figure include just the gamers that bought it in 2004 or the new one's that are just buying it now or will buy it in the future? Perhaps they might want to discuss it or, God forbid, debate it? >Sorry to see it, but I see this as nothing more than a needless and >inflammatory post. I think by now that Steam has been debated more than it >needs to be and that 99% of people have already decided if they consider >Steam acceptable or not. I didn't mean it as inflammatory in the slightest, I thought it was an impressively large user base (more than I would have guessed) and thought others who share my interest in Steam might also find it interesting. SignatureAndrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. |
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