(Image credit: Bungie) Steam player counts are an odd metric. They can be a neat insight into a game's initial popularity (at least on PC), and a handy way of gaining some kind of ballpark on games that keep their active playerbase numbers closer to their chest. But they're also unceremoniously used to throw games under the bus—declaring singleplayer games dead when they inevitably see a falloff in the weeks following release, or forgetting to factor in whether the game is in fact also on a bunch of other launchers and platforms. Article continues below (Image credit: Future) But some of you do care, or at least pay a little bit of attention. 32% of you said it's something you look at—though 15% of that are from people who claim to be Gabe Newell. I don't quite know how 1,466 of you can in fact be the Gabe Newell himself, but the world contains many mysteries. Maybe this is just one of them.…