Weekly News Update - Recap and Stats

[CSN NewsBot]

Two news updates from Valve this week? You know it!

This was a busy week for us as far as releases were concerned, with updates to Counter-Strike: Source, the Source engine running in 64 bit, and Day of Defeat: Source. We hope everyone is enjoying the new content. The plan is to keep releasing updates and new games next year.



There are literally millions of people in the community that connect to Steam each month, so we compiled a couple of statistics for what has happened in the past year:

Steam has delivered approximately 10 million gigabytes of data since the first of the year. You could fill 125,000 80 GB hard drives with this data to make a line over 11 miles long. Not that you would want to, but the visual helps.

There have been a total of 50 billion player minutes in our multiplayer games since the start of the year. If a single person sat down to play on their own, it would take 2.28 million years to accomplish this. This is assuming that you're not planning on sleeping during this 2 million year stretch.

That's quite a bit of data there! Last news update of the year? It's entirely possible, but you never know.

[GodsmackeD]

uhh k.

[kerosine99]

There have been a total of 50 billion player minutes in our multiplayer games since the start of the year. If a single person sat down to play on their own, it would take 2.28 million years to accomplish this. This is assuming that you're not planning on sleeping during this 2 million year stretch.

Man, imagine if that time had been spent doing something constructive... like research, or building houses for the homeless, or making money to donate to charity....

[D-x-H]

kerosine99 wrote..

Man, imagine if that time had been spent doing something constructive... like research, or building houses for the homeless, or making money to donate to charity....

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... good one man. But seriously merry xmas.

[HowlinMadMurphy]

"The plan is to keep releasing updates and new games next year."

This just in: Valve's business model will not change in the coming year.

[washuplushie]

I want more updates and games THIS year

[WooFerPPK]

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[kerosine99]

Ie. January 1, 2005.

[Pan the Goat God]

Stroke your ego more plz.

[azz0r]

So was Darwinia the game they were talking about months back, that would be released via steam? I thought it was going to be a Valve title.



I wonder when the new stats system will be online.

[Merc4hire]

half that time was put up just by me

kerosine99 wrote..

Man, imagine if that time had been spent doing something constructive... like research, or building houses for the homeless, or making money to donate to charity....

imagine if u sucked my dick more

[Cliche]

Merc4hire wrote..

half that time was put up just by me



imagine if u sucked my dick more

depends if he could find it

[thepingofdeath]

Cliche wrote..

depends if he could find it

OWNED!