Steam hits 6 million concurrent users

Consoles SUCK

PC gaming isn't dying, quite the opposite in fact: It's keeping gaming alive.  For every AAA FPS game that's released on the consoles, Steam has tens of thousands of diverse games, indie or otherwise, being promoted and sold.  I'm glad that years down the line I'll still be able to play Doom and not worry about abandoning the platform, like a lot of Wii users are doing right now.

Steamin

I'm a happy Steam customer for a few years already because they just offer such a great service and have continuous sales and special offers and steam as "copy protection" is acceptable enough, because I have very rarely any problems. (like twice a year or so, if at all)

If I had a wish to make, it would be that games released on Steam must only use Steamworks as copy protection and no additional 3rd party nonsense.

Then I could blindly click those "add to cart" buttons, because as it is now, there's still caution on my end required. (Games for Windows Live, 3rd party launchers and external account registration / verification, activation limits, ...).

Besides that (and GoG) it's pretty much all I'll ever need.

Want to play games the "console way", from the couch on your PC - switch to the bigscreen TV and attach a controller to the PC. (it puzzles me why people buy consoles anyways)

The exact peak simultaneous user figure of 6,046,314 was logged around noon on November 25. - I was on Steam more than usual this weekend.

PC gaming is dead.

*Cough* Steam Sales *Cough* hmmm what was that?

can't wait for the next gen consoles to go heavy on digital downloading too.  it will mean the death of GAMESTOP. i'd love to see that corrupt chain die

Nice. I literally just signed up Friday to get the new King's Bounty, not knowing it was on sale for 50% off. I'm totally loving Steam, but it's going to put a big dent in my wallet.

Steam Sales <3

steam sales are amazing, i don´t really get the hate on consoles, as i like to play some ps3, not everyone has a pc to run games on good settings

I have over 200 game son steam now, joined last year, my steam account worth is $1,750, of course ive not spent all that money, but lets say that overall I buy all my games %66 (because some I buy at 75%, some at 50% and some at full price). that is $600, who would have said I would spend $600 in games, i used to be one of the worse pirates in history lol, so glad i found steam, love valve!

Get a PC Rig, hook it up to your TV via HDMI, pick up a 360 controller... And it's lights out for the consoles. You could never go back to the restrictions that come with consoles. Unleash the freedom.

Steam has definitely changed gaming for me.  Pre-Steam, I would look at games when they came out and decide whether or not to buy them then.  Every once in a blue moon I would find one on sale and get it but that was EXTREMELY rare.  Most games were either full price or not at all.

Then Steam came along.  Still pretty much the same thing... until the first holiday sale.  Suddenly, all these games that looked good but not worth $50 were selling for $20 or even $10!!  Games that I would write off before are now just delayed until they become "worth it to me."  It's led to me playing a much larger variety of games.

Steam isn't alone now, though.  Amazon and Green Man also have great deals.  Impulse, now owned by Gamestop, will sometimes give a good deal, too.  And GOG is sitting out there with all of its old, classic games making retro-gaming fun, easy, and a lot less morally dubious.

I just bought my first game on it 2 days ago

great services, yield profits!!

Im another that just this year started using steam...its excellent! I was always a hard copy guy, but this is just fine.

games are easy to access, Services is pretty smooth, I dont have to be subjected to the hell that is gamestop!

plus i have stopped pirating a lot of games(EA, Ubisoft ill never stop downloading urs...even though i dont actually play them, I just take them to piss you off! ;) to help support company's that i enjoy. 

i love steam!!!! and gamersgate!!!

does this mean it's too late to stop the gayben?

GOG is the best marketplace for me. not many games but no DRM and doesn't require a third party software. how many users do you think origin have?

Steam totally changed my gaming purchase habit. If once I used to buy 2-3 games each year, I find myself today buying at least one game each month. And the sales... oh, the sales...

Valve did an amazing job in creating the best platform for buying, interacting with the community, mod support etc. in the PC market.

I just wished they could implement a system in which you can get some refund on old games, which can later be used to purchase new once. Something similar to GMG, which offer this for some games.

I don't care much about Steam sales,, 

I prefer to buy the games at launch,, on Steaam

=P

And some of you say PC gaming is dead/dying hahaha

I have a lot of games on steam, but lately I've been so swamped I hardly get to play! :(

its quite simple really. Its because the PC community is growing I personally know 2 friends that hung up there console boots and bought a PC this year without any suggestions from me, apart form hardware advice & getting me to build one of them.

When gamers grow up the cast aside there petty toys and buy a real game machine that has no limitations.

Just saying! 

yeay for steam and everything, but man i feel cheated.

I bought Witcher 2 yesterday for £10. Installed last night, then went to uni today. Got back on PC to play witcher, found out the price dropped to £4 :/ 

F you valve >_<

Also, i missed an opportunity to buy Desu ex for £3.50.

This is because Steam knows how to have a sale. Many of the Gamestop games currently 'on sale' for Cyber Monday are even less on Steam. In some cases for half off Gamestop's 'sale' price.