Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online

Wow, Counter-Strike is still number three, over ELEVEN years after release?!

That'd be "Skyrim"

I didn't know what skyrim was, beyond a vague awareness that it was a game, so I went to elderscrolls.com, only to encounter a flash-wrapped video with <i>no volume control</i>.<p>I see this particular usability faux pas way too often. If you roll your own flash video player rather than host videos elsewhere or use one of the mainstream well-designed open/commercial flash video player apps, <i>let viewers control the volume</i>.<p>Binary On/Off sound toggles on flash apps are ridiculous. Furthermore, a custom flash video player app should remember the volume setting (per-domain) so viewers don't have to monkey with the volume every time that flash app appears.

If it weren't for those damn spiders, it'd probably be double that number.

Those are great numbers for PC gaming. I wonder what the ratio is for playing vs. bought.<p>Todd Howard, the game director at Bethesda Game Studios, has recently claimed that consoles make up about 90% of their overall game sales. If this is still true for Skyrim it means this game likely has massive sales #s for a single player RPG, or any other game for that matter.

what's trippy to me is how smooth and recognizable that cosine wave is

Is that really a Steam record? The table shows the number of people who are playing NOW and the peak in the last 24 hours.

On the subject of Steam can someone answer this question for me regarding Steam's pricing...<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229558" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229558</a> I used to get around the problem in my country by using a VPN, but that no longer seems to work/

I was surprised to find people still go for the single player RPG genre. I've been playing Skyrim after its midnight release here in New Zealand.<p>On another note, I've also noticed the Mac App Store is selling the new Batman Game. Is the Mac App Store a viable competitor to Steam?

What does "online" mean when talking about a single player game?<p>I am thinking about playing oblivion on xbox360 and I can not understand what being "online" would mean.

Is MW3 Steam-only? If so, it would be a lot more impressive.