Steam hits 5m concurrent users
Seasonal sales, big game releases and a vibrant community are all things Steam has. 5 million concurrent users is what it had two days ago.
That’s a huge number, and a huge chunk of their 35 million strong userbase (based on active users). A lot of this is helped along by the sales which boosted sales numbers and helped generate a lot of game-time for people who otherwise may have gotten bored playing TF2 (which is, of course, free). However a large chunk of this concurrent usage is down to Skyrim players.
The strange thing is that I imagine this number would have been bigger had EA stuck with Valve and put Battlefield3 on the platform as well.
One huge boost for this kind of news is that it proves that PC gaming (regardless of your platform-of-choice) is defiantly hitting back at consoles with an iron fist!
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