Valve announced recently that their Steam service has over 30 million active accounts. They said that they have 178 percent new user growth and sales during the last 12 months have risen 200 percent, putting them on track for the sixth straight year of over 100 percent growth.
“Steam is on track to record the biggest year in its six-year history,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “The year has marked major development advances to the platform with the introduction of support for Mac titles, the Steam Wallet and in-game item buying support, and more. We believe the growth in accounts, sales, and player numbers is completely tied to this work and we plan to continue to develop the platform to offer more marketing, sales, and design tools for developers and publishers of games and digital entertainment.”
Steam now has over 1,200 games available, with peak simultaneous player numbers at over three million and over six million unique gamers accessing Steam each day.
