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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45780

While PSN and Xbox Live are down due to various DDoS attacks, Valve's digital platform has managed to hit a new record for concurrent users. Yesterday, Steam had over 8 million Steam users online simultaneously, thus proving one more time how popular. As we can see in the following graph, yesterday there were 8,1

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Csimbi · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 11:44 am Post subject:

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

It's concurrent users. I think you missed that part. It's a hell of a lot.

TheViltsuZ · Contributor Joined: 29 Dec 2014 Posts: 1

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4193

Its pretty cool but a drop in the bucket. People are playing CS GO, at least they finally upgraded from CS:S. Steam, GOG and GMG did very little with their shitty sales for me over Xmas. I bought a few things but nowhere near what I hoped. Not going to buy something they reduce by 17% only. Greedy bastards only hurt themselves.

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

My name is Tom, I'm a pretentious douchebag and I want everything for free.

zarlin · Junior Member Joined: 26 Jun 2010 Posts: 180

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4193

Kompressor · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 5:55 am Post subject:

This is just Steam users. This, of course, does not include the total number of gamers on the PC at any one time.

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4193

I promised myself not to lower my IQ to your level. So I changed my reply.

I bought enough over the holidays. How about you? From what I understand you steal your games. Thus the constant moaning of copy protection. Of course I'm wrong. Yeah.

What I really wanted never really had much of a sale. In fact the sales overall have sucked. None of the bigger titles saw no more than 25% off. I ended up spending 100 bucks overall for 12 older but decent games like Grimrock.

Csimbi · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:22 am Post subject:

I did not get any games during the Christmas sale.
I picked up about 10 during the Black Friday sale though - that was a far better selection and deal.

Tom, since you're a Steam user, I take it you use IsThereAnyDeal, right?
I hear it's a good place to get notification about the deals via their wishlist.
If you have not used it yet, give it a go.

Tom · Elite Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 4193

No I don't use that, but I will look at that. Thanks. I was looking for specific titles. So it's a straight forward search. As it turns out the titles I originally wanted are now on sale or most anyway. But I spent my Xmas money and have way more than originally planned. So those game makers are out of luck for horrible timing on their sales. That with Space Rangers HD kicking dominator ass for like the 3rd time in 10+ years. I got many many hours of fun ahead of me. I am truly impressed by Dishonored and Legend of Grimrock. Sadly I missed the great deal on Grimrock 2.