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[Topher]

sorry....had to

 

[Dacvak]

I dunno, I think this whole PC gaming thing is a fad.

 

[M.W.]

Careful, he'll gut ya

 

[Skifi28]

Gabe Newell says thanks

 

[Bloobs]

 

[Banjo64]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

 

[Hero_Select]

This wouldn't have been possible without the help from Concord

 

[MiguelItUp]

Thanks Gabe, now please present the following...

Half-Life 3
Left 4 Dead 3
Team Fortress 3
Portal 3

 

[Zathalus]

Nice to see, and yet we still get some here that think PC gaming doesn’t have mainstream appeal.

 

[owandeseis]

Curious, August (and summer overall) is normally the worst month of the year for Steam (and consoles, and gaming related streaming platforms like Twitch), yet we see this, pretty sure we'll se 38-39 millions in the coming months.

Biggest hits of the year being sold best on Steam vs consoles is starting to get common with Wukong, Elden Ring, BG3, Palworld, Helldivers 2, Cyberpunk etc

Next years will be interesting if Steam keeps growing, we might see some news that would have been absolutely unexpected just a few years ago (maybe not so much now)

 

[Tomi]

Concord is killing it

 

[Kacho]

"Wide appeal" is what PCMR wants to belive. They dont want even aknowledge that PC is still widely a geeek platform (though there are now more geeks that before) and still far from mass market.

That’s a lot of geeks

 

[Bkdk]

Valve is the only major US gaming company that didn't touch any of the insane wokeness, thus they continue to deliver and see their business growing. Gabe is also smart enough to not talk about how anti woke they are internally and let all the major western possible competitors destroy themselves from within while they take in more profits.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

That’s a lot of geeks

That quote gave me more cancer than smoking three packs of cigarettes per day

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

 

[analog_future]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

Hopefully, he’s prepared provisions to ensure that that won’t happen.

 

[DenchDeckard]

See you at 38 mill

 

[XXL]

 

[RagnarokIV]

PC gaming is too complicated, you have 50 drivers for your 12 graphics cards and you can’t build a PC for less than $3000
Then when you finally finish you get BLUE SCREEN OF DARTH also you don’t get Sony games

I predict PC gaming will be dead in 3 months.

 

[SJRB]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

Dude has zero reason to sell to anyone at this point. I’m sure scum like EA and Microsoft already tried to buy him out with huge sums of money but Gabe already is on top of the world.

 

[BlackTron]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

Even if he doesn't sell, no one lives forever.

 

[RagnarokIV]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

Don’t even mate.

It’s not just getting acquired, it’s once he kicks the bucket and the “heirs” step in.
Kids are greedy fucks and dont care about their parent’s legacy. Look at Tolkien’s estate for example.

They’d flog that shit instantly.

 

[BlackTron]

Don’t even mate.

It’s not just getting acquired, it’s once he kicks the bucket and the “heirs” step in.
Kids are greedy fucks and dont care about their parent’s legacy. Look at Tolkien’s estate for example.

They’d flog that shit instantly.

The only hope would be for him to be actively grooming a successor but even then it's not guaranteed and can go awry real quick.

 

[StereoVsn]

Thanks Gabe, now please present the following...

Half-Life 3
Left 4 Dead 3
Team Fortress 3
Portal 3

Gabe does not believe in 3s!

But yeah, what a journey it has been. I still kind of remember bitching about Steam requirement for Half-Life 2, lol.

Steam dragged PC gaming out of a shit show it was back in late 2000s, IMO. Huge props to Gaben and the team at Valve.

 

[Quasicat]

Hopefully, he’s prepared provisions to ensure that that won’t happen.

 

[diffusionx]

sorry....had to

More like concordurrent users amirite

 

[{insert code here}]

PSA: Resident Evil franchise deal on humble: Link

PC Master Race.
In Lord Gaben We Trust.

 

[Topher]

 

[Melon Husk]

My only concern with Steam is Gabe selling up. It’s going to be a cluster fuck once they are acquired by a greedy fuck corpo.

Jokes on you when Gabe ends up outliving Microsoft

 

[Unknown?]

 

[Fahdis]

Thanks Gabe, now please present the following...

Half-Life 3
Left 4 Dead 3
Team Fortress 3
Portal 3

I want him to leave it all at 2 so everyone can suffer.

 

[Fahdis]

PC gaming is too complicated, you have 50 drivers for your 12 graphics cards and you can’t build a PC for less than $3000
Then when you finally finish you get BLUE SCREEN OF DARTH also you don’t get Sony games

I predict PC gaming will be dead in 3 months.

Pfffttt. Modern problems require modern solutions, we just build a PC2 to fix the problems with PC.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Steam is a great platform for PC gaming but I like GoG better.

 

[poppabk]

The Concord effect.

 

[The Mad Draklor]

Sony is absolutely generous saving PC gaming with Concord.

 

[DaGwaphics]

Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms doing its part to stop Steam from hitting this milestone, but to no avail.

https://steamdb.info/app/4780/charts/

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I'll say it once and I'll say it again.

WU KONG CLANG AIN'T NOTHING TO FUCK WITH

 

[Pejo]

That equals out to roughly 10% of the US population on the platform at the same time (just from a numbers perspective). Insane numbers, even though most of them are probably from Asia.

 

[Celcius]

oh wow, and I haven't even been on Steam today
PC gaming is huge these days. You love to see it.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Gabe does not believe in 3s!

But yeah, what a journey it has been. I still kind of remember bitching about Steam requirement for Half-Life 2, lol.

Steam dragged PC gaming out of a shit show it was back in late 2000s, IMO. Huge props to Gaben and the team at Valve.

Right?! I'll forever remember the Steam hate at launch, lol. I give them major kudos for keeping their eye on the prize, they clearly knew what they were doing. Maaaan, has it come a long way, lol. I remember that vomit green color was NOT good on the eyes. When they gray was available I was so happy, lmao.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Probably won’t be long before we hit 40 million.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Valve is the only major US gaming company that didn't touch any of the insane wokeness, thus they continue to deliver and see their business growing. Gabe is also smart enough to not talk about how anti woke they are internally and let all the major western possible competitors destroy themselves from within while they take in more profits.

They're located in Washington state, and the team behind Firewatch (Campo Santos) was acquired by Valve a while back. They were left-leaning and vocal about it on their podcasts.

 

[ChiefDada]

 

[Dr. Acid Avatar]

That’s a lot of geeks

We prefer the term NERD.

 

[//DEVIL//]

The Thanks Concord took me by surprise I spit on my screen. fu man lol

 

[Barakov]

The "600" people playing Concord.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Concord at about 300 CCU out of 37M.

Gabe should thank Firewalk for a game that adds 1 extra user out of every 123,000 CCU

 

[RoboFu]

I was on all day! I'm apart of something!!

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I was on all day! I'm apart of something!!

Doesnt count if you left the game on all day at the menu screen!