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Steam reached 25M concurrent users for the first time
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoConcurrent users is people signed into steam at the same time? That number seems low to me, not to dismiss this milestone.
- jiofih 6y agoNo, 7 million concurrent users. Why does it seem low?
- pengaru 6y agoGlobal mobile user numbers are in the billions, through that lens this is a small fraction of global users of network-connected gaming-capable computing devices. But largely due to walled gardens, platforms like Steam can't access many of those users...
- jiofih 6y agoSteam is desktop only, that’s probably over 10% of active PCs in the world, and the majority of those are business units.
- reilly3000 6y agoI thought it was in-game, but looking at https://store.steampowered.com/stats/ https://store.steampowered.com/stats/ I see the sum of the individual max daily counts for top games is ~6M. So unless there is an extremely long tail, that must just be people who are signed in with an Active state.
- ashman5 6y agoWe're signed into Stream to get a PS5 controller device driver (available in Steam) to work with Epic Fortnite :)
- Google234 6y agoHey HN, here’s another company that takes a 30% cut for selling software. Let’s get the outrage rolling!
- Rebelgecko 6y agoI think the argument is that if you don't like Steam's 30% cut you can still sell your game on other stores like Humble Store (25% cut), Epic (12% cut which is even more attractive if your game would be paying UE4 royalties), or by selling via your own website. On some platforms, you're locked into a single option
- wmichelin 6y agoPrecisely this. You're not locked into a platform on PC / MacOS. On consoles you are. On Apple phones you are.
- http-teapot 6y agoIt’s not locked on Android?
- saganus 6y agoIn Android you can sideload apks and even install e.g. F-Droid. These alternatives are not frictionless but at least they exist.
- ecf 6y agoI can side load apps and install AltStore on an iPhone.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoOn Android, sideloaded apps can be used indefinitely without an internet connection and there's no limit to how many sideloaded apps you can install