Steam has one billion accounts and 90 million monthly active users
Steam has a billionth user. The lucky account is 'amusedsilentdragonfly', according to our sister site Steam ID Finder - see their 'steamID3', which shows as [U:1:1000000000].
While it's ostensibly pretty amazing that Steam's population now equals almost a seventh of that of the entire world, a significant number of these are undoubtedly spam, scam, alt, and bot accounts. Probably tens, maybe hundreds of millions. One in seven people on the planet are not PC gamers.
The more pertinent number is monthly active users, though, again, some of these are duplicate accounts as CS:GO players jump on their alts, that kind of thing. Six months ago, Valve announced that Steam had over 90 million monthly actives, up from 67 million a little over a year earlier and tying with PSN. That's amazing growth - even allowing for the dupes - and was fuelled by a surge of popularity in China. Steam's Asian playerbase is now comparable in size to its US and Western European ones.
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