Steam is Valve's digital game distributor by purchasing via online payments with download media. With the Steam, strived for a rampant game piracy can be suppressed. How it works by downloading the Steam software, so it can be checked and immediately buy the existing game.
Steamguard is a video game protection system. Where Steam requires an Internet connection by entering a steam identity and password and then verified via electronic mail in order to enjoy special services such as cloud.
Steam workshop is a service provided to accommodate the work of the community. The work can be "used" by Valve, or just an additional free modification.
In the past, most video games contributed to the increasing popularity of Valve, Steam (Valve online store), and Source (Valve's engine) were Counter Strike. Now, the games that run the baton are Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2, plus both games are free to play.
Steam is an internet-based digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer, and social networking platform developed by Valve Corporation. Steam provides users with installation and updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. The software provides a freely available application programming interface (API) called Steamworks, which developers can use to integrate many of Steam's functions, including networking and matchmaking, in-game achievements, micro-transactions, and support for user-created content through Steam Workshop , into their products.
Steam is created by a game developer named Valve, founded by Gabe Newell or commonly called "Lord Gaben" by Gamers, in 1996
After Drop-out from Harvard, Gabe worked at Microsoft for 13 years, and took part in early-generation Windows development.
in 1996, Gabe and colleagues Mike Harrington decided to leave Microsoft and create their own company with the money they collected during their work at Microsoft
At the beginning of the project in 2002, many parties insinuated Project Steam by saying that "Steam will not succeed" even laughing at the thought of selling games online is a completely alien concept and has never been done.
Despite receiving many negative views, Gabe still believes in his vision that Steam is the future of the gaming platform.
In 2007 Gabe expressed his dissatisfaction with the console and the necessity of selling games he made in console form, as it was "wasting everyone's time" and "chaos in many processes"
Gabe also throws a sneer at the "Xbox live" service by calling it "Broken Train".
And the result makes many people who booed Steam had to lick their own saliva, dated January 2014, more than 3000 Games available via Steam, with User-active as many as 75 million users. in October 2013Screen Digest estimates as much as 75% of PC purchases online via Steam, Market-shareengan fantastic numbers.
In December 2010, Forbes listed Newell as "the name you need to know" because Steam has a cooperative relationship with many major developers. In March 2012, Forbes estimated Newell's wealth of $ 1.5 billion, ranking 854 richest people in the world.
Steam has surpassed 14 million users simultaneously. This record has been exceeded on January 7, 2017 with a total of 14,207,039 users. Wow! Very much is not it? Judging from Steam Stats, and on this day its total users dropped to 10 million users who logged simultaneously to Steam.
This amount includes steam users running in Background Desktop or if you see Friend Tab in steam must often meet your friends who are "Away" in the Steam Profile. However, steam user stats from around the world can show the development of this Publisher Game No. 1 from time to time!
Whereas in 2012, Valve just surpassed 5 million Steam users from around the world. And imagine, in 5 Years Steam could surpass up to 14 million users online. This record has also surpassed the previous record in 2015 with a total of 12 million users.
And in the first rank of the game most played by Steam users, Dota 2 occupies that position with a total of 951,942 players. Followed by Counter Strike: Global Offensive with players reaching 675,195 players and in third place Grand Theft Auto 5 with total 116,230 players