Andre Yoskowitz
1 Feb 2010 15:46
According to recent figures from Valve, active Steam accounts grew by 25 percent, year-on-year, to over 25 million.
Monthly "player minutes" has reached 13 billion, an all-time high, says the company.
Concurrent users hit an all-time high as well in December, at over 2.5 million.
"Steam turned five years old in March 2009," added Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "With the introduction of each new platform feature released over the years - such as the Steam Community, Steam Cloud, and Steamworks - we've seen corresponding growth in account numbers, concurrent player numbers and developer support for the platform. As such, we plan to continue to expand and grow the platform to better serve the developers supporting the open platform and millions of gamers logging in each day."