30 Million Steam Accounts Can't Be Wrong

[Cousin_IT]

Good as Steam (in theory) is. I wonder how many of those accounts only exist because of Steamworks forcing people to have a steam account?

 

[sir.rutthed]

Cmon Valve destroy Microsoft and there shitty gfwl. Microsoft recently stated they would support the pc but they just announced exclusive xbox 360 fallout: new vegas dlc.

Yeah, because destroying all other companys is a good thing >.>

you sir and trying to be clever but end up sounding like a cracker. EXPRESSION OF SPEECH

As a cracker, I second his cleverness. Also at least he can spell. And his hair looks nice.

On topic: good job Steam. Keep being awesome.

EDIT: Turns out he can't spell either Sometimes it's hard being a Grammar Nazi. Oh well. By the way, your hair is mighty stylish as well.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

You disagree with Steam?!?!? You must be TROLL!! SMASH TROLL!!!!

Steam fanboys can get rather troll like if provoked or questioned. Any community that is 30 mil (LOL) is bound to attract filth. Not that the guy here is filth, but Steam does have a large amount of elitists who hate.

I imagine most who state they don't like Steam will be called a troll. Especially from members of this forum. I can't stand Steam personally, I want to buy a game, I have to use steam, steam has close to 10 useless updates a month, I must wait.... I just want to play my game. Leave me alone steam! Sure, people love updates, free content! I just wish Steam was optional instead of required. They stole that page from Microsoft. Can we say monopoly??

Sure some people love it (30 mil, LOL), they will tell you how you are wrong for not liking it. Didn't you hear? Your opinions don't matter to elitists.

Maybe it's the unfortunate conditions in which we met. (By we I mean Steam and I)

I had just got Empire Total War through the post, I placed it into my disc tray... 'You must install Steam'.

Umm... why? I mean I have the disc... so... I shouldn't need to right? Ah well fine I shall.

A period of time later, 'Enter your CD key to install'. Nearly there

*Enters key* ... fails... the fuck is this?

10 minutes later on Google... I can't install Empire because Play.com sent it me a day early... so I must install it tomorrow... -.- fine.

*Next day after going through the CD key again* 'Download starting' I have the fucking disc in the tray... why are you trying to download 4GB? Are you trying to piss off my isp?

*Cue Benny Hill theme tune*

About 4 hours later I finally managed to install Empire... however I still hate Steam.

Oddly enough GFWL has never given me any grief... ever.

 

[Irridium]

Now how about they fix all the little problems Steam has had for ages? Like an offline mode that needs to connect to the internet to start offline.

Never had that issue...I can turn on my laptop in the middle of a desert, far from the internet, and start playing Sam & Max with no problem.

Its the opposite for me.

If I try to start up without an internet in offline mode it gives me a big fat "CONNECT TO INTERNET TO COMPLETE PROCESS".

And that usually ends with me raging.

Activate offline mode once while you are online. Then offline mode should work consistently so long as you don't buy a game or Steam doesn't receive an update.

That doesn't exactly help since I'd have to be able to predict when my internet will die out.

And trying to predict when your unstable internet will die is not an easy task.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

*smashes face violently against desk*

*Quietly leaves to go enjoy Dawn of War 2*

 

[Rebel44]

Course they can be wrong. Open accounts and accounts used are 2 different things. They may have 30 million accounts, but how many of them are regular? I have one and have downloaded 2 X-Com games, an thats it. Exact same thing with MMO sites and sites like facebook. Just because you have one doesnt mean you use it. Mostly if it is free you do not bother shutting it down.

30 million is number of active accouts (those online in last 30 days) - total number of accounts is well over 35 million.

 

[Ekonk]

Everybody loves Steam.

HA(!)

OT: Good for them. I'll stick with GFWL for now.

Are you serious? Games for Windows is the biggest pile of shit since the invention of - well, shit. I thought everyone hated that!

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Are you serious? Games for Windows is the biggest pile of shit since the invention of - well, shit. I thought everyone hated that!

Well somewhere up there ^^^^ I posted a vague description of my first meeting with Steam and why I was completely put off it straight away.

Also GFWL has never given me grief in all the time I have used it.

Finally it is a lot more useful for me than Steam, it's features better suit me and connects me with my more commonly used friends list and I also enjoy the way it ties into my 360 profile, though that is not something I require from PC games.

 

[mjc0961]

Now how about they fix all the little problems Steam has had for ages? Like an offline mode that needs to connect to the internet to start offline.

Never had that issue...I can turn on my laptop in the middle of a desert, far from the internet, and start playing Sam & Max with no problem.

I've never had that problem either. In fact I heard a lot of people whining about how Steam is just like that awful EA/Ubisoft DRM where if you lose your internet connection, it kicks you out of the game. So I loaded up Left 4 Dead, got to the title screen, unplugged my ethernet cable from my PC, and proceeded to play some single player without a problem.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

It's fucking annoying to mod Morrowind on Steam, though. Have to change file dates and shit. Too lazy. Vanilla Morrowind will have to do.

This makes me glad I bought Morroiwnd retail, I mean, it BEGS to be modded ^_^

Indeed it does. But it begs for a community patch more. The game is so buggy that NPCs who are supposed to exist...DON'T.

 

[8bitmaster]

It's fucking annoying to mod Morrowind on Steam, though. Have to change file dates and shit. Too lazy. Vanilla Morrowind will have to do.

This makes me glad I bought Morroiwnd retail, I mean, it BEGS to be modded ^_^

hmm. modding oblivion steam copy works fine

 

[samsonguy920]

I came for the Half-Life 2, I stayed for (more of) the awesome.

Me, too!

 

[BritishWeather]

Cmon Valve destroy Microsoft and there shitty gfwl. Microsoft recently stated they would support the pc but they just announced exclusive xbox 360 fallout: new vegas dlc.

Yeah, because destroying all other companys is a good thing >.>

you sir and trying to be clever but end up sounding like a cracker. EXPRESSION OF SPEECH

As a cracker, I second his cleverness. Also at least he can spell. And his hair looks nice.

On topic: good job Steam. Keep being awesome.

EDIT: Turns out he can't spell either Sometimes it's hard being a Grammar Nazi. Oh well. By the way, your hair is mighty stylish as well.

do you understand my point? possibly. do you add to the dicussion? no, you stated what twenty other people have stated. are you a nob? most definitely

why pick on me?

 

[Delusibeta]

Course they can be wrong. Open accounts and accounts used are 2 different things. They may have 30 million accounts, but how many of them are regular? I have one and have downloaded 2 X-Com games, an thats it. Exact same thing with MMO sites and sites like facebook. Just because you have one doesnt mean you use it. Mostly if it is free you do not bother shutting it down.

30 million is number of active accouts (those online in last 30 days) - total number of accounts is well over 35 million.

How active?I looked....saw there was nothing worth downloading? Are these accounts those that download game regularly? I doubt it.

Nope, just those who use the client online.

Although I would buy the 30 million active users figure. Right now, there's about 2.5 million users, which is about 8.3% of that figure, which for a Monday I'll wager is fairly realistic.

 

[Carlston]

30 million accounts can't be wrong?

Ok you make a popular game and FORCE people to be on steam to play it (cough) left 4 dead...

yeah people will MAKE a account.

I never heard of steam before I got left 4 and honestly it's not all that. It's just a battlenet large find a game room service like gamespy.

But eh...