Out of the 5-million users who use Valve’s digital distribution platform, Steam, a majority of them seem to fancy dragon slaying in Bethesda’s action RPG: Skyrim.
Valve is behind the largest platform for distribution of digital copies of games, which the common man knows as Steam. It not only provides a marketplace for gamers to purchase and download a wide array of PC titles, but also has a number of community features
as well.
The studio revealed that Steam now has more than 3-million concurrent users who have signed up for the service, making it the largest out of all its competitors.
Electronic Arts have launched Origin and Ubisoft also have their own store set up, yet neither have even come close to the figures that Valve has posted.
In fact, 2011 was a good year for Steam despite late competition from both EA and Ubisoft, as it posted record figures in terms of the sales it made. This was mostly down to the enthusiastic reception of PC fans for one game: Skyrim.
The game is the fifth chapter in The Elder Scrolls series, with its predecessor being the critically acclaimed Oblivion. Skyrim went on to not only break Steam’s sales records for a single title but it did so in style by outselling every other game on offer
by a ratio of three copies of Skyrim sold for every one copy of any other game.
The fact that Steam is managing to post such dizzying figures can be taken as a sign of encouragement in a time when the majority of the masses are of the opinion that gaming on the PC platform is nearing its twilight.
Competition from video game consoles from the likes of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 have hampered the PC market, yet if the figures are anything to by there is still plenty of life left in the latter.
Gabe Newell, the main man at Valve, has put plenty into making Steam what it is today and is currently encouraging the platform’s availability in areas where p****y is rampant.
His view is that if people are given access and support then p****y can be taken on in a more effective manner.
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