Steam Reaches 15 Million Accounts
Steam, Valve’s digital distribution system, has passed the 15 million user mark. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s 5 million more users than Xbox Live! And only 5 million more users than World of Warcraft.
Recognizing a good opportunity to toot their own horn when they see one, Valve was quick to point out that Steam also saw “year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season.” Honestly, I can believe it. I can’t even remember the last time I bought a PC game at retail.
Steam’s been the subject of even more good news recently, having just inked a deal with ValuSoft to distribute their games digitally and receiving their first MMORPG, CCP’s excellent Eve Online. Now Valve just needs to convince Atari to get give its games the Steam treatment so I can finally play Neverwinter Nights 2, and all will be right with the world.
Sunday 17 February 2008 7:40 pm
STEAM has TeamFortress2 running at around 2000+ servers, not all have games going at once, but you get the idea. About half that number in Half-life Deathmatch. Orange Box was/is a big reason. Oh and don’t forget to mention it’s FREE, after purchase of game. Yep, no monthly fees. Take that, all you MMORPGMoFo’s