Steam is noted to be a portal where players can gain access to PC games as well as various forms of digital entertainment. Valve has offered gamers all over the world various discounts on loads of titles last year via Steam. During the Holiday Sale itself players were offered up to 80% discount on selected games. The company now reveals that there has been an extraordinary growth in the year 2009 with increases in unit sales, accounts and concurrent players.
Last year also saw Steamworks suite of publishing services adopt the electronic and tangible versions of some big game offerings. These include games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Empire: Total War and Dawn of War II. Empire also depended on Steamworks for the management and delivery of the games paid DLC releases.
“Steam turned five years old in March 2009. 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,” commented Gabe Newell, president of Valve.
Steam sailed through the 25 million active accounts mark which amounts to a 25% increase since 2008. More than 10 million from the total number possess profiles in the Steam Community. Valve also disclosed that the peak number of concurrent users hit the 2.5 million mark in December taking the average monthly player minutes to over 13 billion.
Gamers can now espy on Steam more than 1,000 gaming titles from over 100 publishers and developers from all around the globe. The 2009 unit sales went up by over 205% sees Steam crossing the 100% mark year-over-year growth in unit sales once again for the fifth consecutive year.