Nowadays, it's difficult to find a PC gamer who doesn't know what Steam is. With more than 35 million registered users, Valve's gaming platform has quickly become one of the most important and competitive franchises in gaming industry. Best selling games such as Half Life, Team Fortress and Counter Strike certainly helped to make Steam a force to be reckoned with in the console war. But what makes Steam such a success?
On 16 May, the long-awaited release of the PC version of Ghost of Tsushima took place. And the game proved to be a great success on the first day.
It has surpassed spider man now
it's 71k+
game did this with way shorter time than spider man.
@prince
I'm confused. Does that number mean total players at one time playing like a snapshot
or total sales? If it's the former that's not very accurate because I know I'm not the only person that buys games and plays them later and that number is not included.
Is this going to be the new thing thing? Articles about Steam reviews? Which of course was in response to the false article about the review bombings in the first place.
Hey, just a heads up that the new owners did open news to Steam updates, but we try our best to not allow them to go on daily updates unless relevant to some other news. I understand this isn't everyone's cup and tea and sympathize, but the door has been open. If you feel it's 'too much' please do PM me or submit a ticket to the mod team. Thank you.
I came here to post this link in that specific article. 84 perce t is pretty good. How many bad reviews were there like 5
I always get confused by this, but is 72k good sales numbers for a game? I keep seeing games fail at selling 2.5 million and that they need to be on multiple platforms but is an additional 72k adding much?
Im not sure how its confusing :\
72k actively playing. Not 72k sold.
A good example is Helldivers 2, 6m sold, 450k (at its peak) active players.
But how many swords swung is what we're all really waiting for.
for one they already had a huge launch on the playstation, they don't need to sell 5m to make the porting to pc profitable and as pointed out below that number you see is just the people playing it at this moment.
Also from the insomniac leak we know these PC ports are a quick turnaround and budgeted around $2-4 million. At 100k sales they break even including Steams cut. They may not sell millions but they are a great ROI
72k concurrent. That is a global number. People who bought the game are not playing at the same time because of timezones, working schedules, holidays, events... There is no good rule of thumb but you can extrapolate based on other games that also released sales data. Then it is clear that the PC release alone accounts for at least 500K copies sold on steam, maybe closer to 700-800K. Probably will sell over a million this extended weekend.
According to steamspy and other data gathering sites games like Days Gone, Spider Man, God Of War, Horizon Zero Dawn have sold 2 to 5 million copies on Steam. So I expect Ghost to reach similar numbers. Probably even surpass it.
Mecha Party brings the VR MOBA to Europe and Asia on PSVR 2 and Steam, while the Quest 3 version targets a summer release.
This looks pretty good. RIGZ made me queasy but I've got better VR legs now (I think).
This article explains how to link your Steam and PlayStation Networks accounts, which is becoming a must for Helldivers 2.
"Another problem is that you can't play if you lose your connection. This issue, personally, gets on my nerves. We all know that our computers are pretty useless and boring once the internet pops off, and this applies to Steam, too. You are allowed to go into offline mode, but most of the characteristics of games won't be available, and all in all, it's just buggy."
...this hasn't been true for me so far. If you lose you online, sure it is annoying, you can't play online. This applies to every online service though(any multiplayer etc). Never had any probs with Single player games in Offline mode.
Steam sales and Steam CD keys are awesome anyhow> I bought Witcher 2 for 15€ today.
way more pros than cons is enough for me!
Biggest con is download speeds.
always hit and miss and never downloads at my max dl speed, where as Origin seems to always have fast and constant dl speeds...
Probably due to the lack of people downloading though i suppose on Origin.
I have yet to have a problem with Steam. But I had great success with Direct 2 Drive (not happy with Gamefly), Gamer's Gate, Impulse Driven and Greenman Gaming.........
I ran into a problem with steamguard once, you know, have to verify your account in your email from 7 years ago.
But other than that, I havent come across any issues.