Steam Reaches 15 Million Accounts

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Valve's Steam service for downloading PC games and digital content has gone through another milestone surpassing 15 million accounts and releasing year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season. Throughout 2008 Valve also promised to bring more community features as well as new titles such as Valve's Left 4 Dead. "PC gaming is thriving, and has evolved into an era of constant connectivity," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "That connectivity gives us the ability to have a much better relationship with customers, not just for delivering our games, but across all aspects of our business - including the design, development, and support of our games. Features like Guest Passes, Free Weekends, Gifting, and the Steam Community have been very well received both by customers and the developers who are using Steam. We are accelerating our release of new functionality in the next year as well as finding new ways to work with our partners such as the release of Steamworks, which allows them to bring the many benefits of Steam to their packaged products."

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[candle_86]

but you have to wonder is that 15000 million users, i myself have 12 steam accounts, do not ask why please.

 

[Dangle]

candle, why?

 

[candle_86]

hmm well i used to hack some and well steam doesnt approve, and had a few hi-jacked so i had to keep buying em

 

[Corrosion]

lol ^, i have 1. with a crap load of games. if it gets hacked ... well o well i stole it from wal-mart anyway and got the other games from the x2900xt i bought lol.

 

[ex_reven]

but you have to wonder is that 15000 million users, i myself have 12 steam accounts, do not ask why please.

Whats the point of that?
Steam doesn't ban your account, they ban your IP.

Well, at least in the games I play it does.

 

[candle_86]

it bans your steam id over vac not the IP, IP is server side on server which now i admin for my clan because for the last 2 years ive been legit got bored hacking and ban by steam id not ip.

 

[ex_reven]

it bans your steam id over vac not the IP, IP is server side on server which now i admin for my clan because for the last 2 years ive been legit got bored hacking and ban by steam id not ip.

Yeah I wasnt thinking lol.
I didnt know vac bans didnt cross over into linked accounts (accounts linked by games registered)

 

[candle_86]

umm know, they dont its account based not IP based.

 

[ex_reven]

umm know, they dont its account based not IP based.

I was agreeing with you LOL.
Why are you RE-TELLING me things you already just told me haha.

 

[candle_86]

cause i can and i will

its account based

 

[ex_reven]

cause i can and i will

its account based

Im going to shove your accounts up your ass reaaaaaaaaaaaallly soon.

PS - Steam FTW

 

[Pinchy]

I don't get how there is only 15 million. When checking steam ID's, I have seen ~17ish million-ers. Unless there is something I missed ?

 

[ex_reven]

I don't get how there is only 15 million. When checking steam ID's, I have seen ~17ish million-ers. Unless there is something I missed ?

Go back to work ya lazy bum