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This is just concurrent users. It doesn't mean anything in terms of total Palworld owners on Steam.
I think it sounds about right. People can use Steam very occasionally.
If it is true it would explain his obsession with steam. He would feel "robbed"
Epic among other big pubs including Microsoft left PC gaming high and dry for the most part.. No company wanted PC customers anymore since the money was on console mostly at that time. I wouldn't fully blame them but totally leaving PC is something i personally find it as a sort of betrayal cause i was pretty young back then and loved their games including Epic.
132m. Bigger than PS or Xbox.
EGS doesn't have Palworld or Helldivers.
Hundreds of thousands?
You're forgetting the shovelware valve allow on it. Let's not be kidding ourselves.
I mean same for me but we are hardcore of the hardcore, we know what we want exactly but if someone just wants to discover stuff and see whats best for them, there's too much 'crap' to browse through.
I honestly rarely see shovelware on Steam unless it's posted elsewhere. Steam's algorithm or whatever doesn't really show me these games whereas it's not difficult for games like this to surface on other platforms. I find the complaint odd tbh.
I'll take shovelware I can ignore if it means small devs can easily get their games on Steam. It's why Steam has way more interesting indies than any other store except for itch.io.
There have been a lot of layoffs in tech but where you getting the idea it's hundreds of thousands?
Lets not talk like it cannot get even better. Valve is rich as F. They can spend more effort into identifying which game is a typical low effort asset flip and which one isn't. it is there ecosystem, they need to take more responsibility of it.
I guess I don't know what "take more responsibility" is. I don't mean to say Steam is perfect, but it's clear to me that Valve are investing a lot in discoverability, and continue to do so. I think they should actually also direct some of their focus on improving UI cohesion, better community communication and better social features.
again, your "low effort asset flip" is someone else's game sometimes, and sometimes a very good one, and i dont trust you to differentiate them
I'd be surprised if fewer than 90% of users didn't just have Steam open on start up. I rarely use it (compared to the amount of time I'm on my laptopn / PC in general) but I always have it open since there's no real reason not to, and it's easier than only opening it when I actually want to play something.
Can you give examples of stores with better discoverability? I always see this brought up and don't really understand why. Steam is literally the only store that has ever recommended me stuff I didn't know about and I've liked.
