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Steam Hits New Record For Concurrent Users – Over 8 Million Steam Users Online Simultaneously

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While PSN and Xbox Live are down due to various DDoS attacks, Valve’s digital platform has managed to hit a new record for concurrent users. Yesterday, Steam had over 8 million Steam users online simultaneously, thus proving one more time how popular Valve’s digital platform actually is.

As we can see in the following graph, yesterday there were 8,156,455 online Steam users. That’s the biggest number of concurrent users we’ve ever seen, and we’re now wondering whether Valve will be able to push it to 10 million concurrent users.

Moreover, we can see that both DOTA 2 and CS: GO are the most played games currently (at least today). What’s also interesting is how popular Skyrim still is, and how Arma 3 has managed to top other triple-A titles like Far Cry 4 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Kudos to NeoGAF’s member ‘fluffydelusions‘ for sharing the graphs.

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  • oraoraikuze

    yes, Raiden, horasho

  • archaven

    well if steam has 100M active users, 8M concurrent isn’t really something to be happy about but still it’s an achievement

    • Johannna_L

      Its over 100 Million REGISTERED users (Active and non-active), 8 MILLION in one go is fantastic.

      • Stian Kleppe

        No, it’s 100 million active.

        Steam is a leading online platform for PC, Mac, and Linux software, games and digital entertainment with over 3,700 titles and 100 million active accounts.

        http://store.steampowered.com/news/14478/

        8% of that is amazing at one time tho.

      • Nines

        100 millions of active users, not registered. I’ve read somewhere that overall there are nearly 200 millions accounts.

      • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

        It´s 100 million active.

        • Johannna_L

          How would you classify Tekken series maker Harada who in a recent interview said that he had an old Steam account? Would you classify him as active or registered user?

          • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

            “an account that owns at least one game and have logged in over the last 30 days”

      • Steam has 230 milion registered users (check VACbanned site). 100 million active.

        • Johannna_L

          HAD is the word here! Too many vacbanned Counter Strike cheaters! (Idiots if you ask me) gets banned and creates new account/s so they can keep on cheating.

  • david jb

    but but ….. pc is dying !!!

    • lol

    • Bilal Beyg

      Yeah! LOL
      Console Peasants Screwed!

    • Gio

      hahaha so true

    • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

      But why does every PC gamer (not me) keep telling of PC gaming is not dying etc. ? People know that already. PC gamers are keeping the statement alive. Stop living in the past.

      • david jb

        becuase a lotttttttttttttt of ppl say otherwise(non-pc gamers)

        • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

          Link please?

          • david jb

            you are talking to me ? a link to what ?

            just read youtube comments. how can you be so lazy ?

        • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

          Link?

  • DDoS attacks pony xbot lol

  • Danial

    More people play Truck Simulator 2 than Call of Duty: AW

    • Matt

      Well 1 in 2 Children are going to be autistic by 2025 so COD will catch up.

    • Universe

      Euro Truck Simulator 2 is a great game. I never thought I would sink 40 hours into a simulator game before.

    • Nines

      Even Call of Duty 4 has 13000 players (you won’t see this on Steam, because there are non-Steam versions), and it came out 7 years ago. Advanced Warfare just isn’t PC friendly in terms of multiplayer games.

  • CoolingGibbon

    This isn’t record-breaking. Steam has passed 8 million before. The highest however, was 9 million back in November. It’s always better to mark topics as “rumor” when quoting NeoGAF.

    dualshockers dot com/2014/11/02/steam-passes-9-million-concurrent-users-in-sudden-traffic-spike/

  • The Glorious PC Master Race

    “PC Gaming is not relevant” the peasants claim and this blows them out of the water. The mewling butthurt will be hilarious from the usual Dualshillers suspects.

    • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

      Only people that say PC gaming is dying are the PC gamers. Like I would say “Novebody uses internet” because everybody said so in 1999 and I think everybody still says it. Get over it, PC gamers. You are the only people keeping that statement alive.

      • david jb

        you again ? ….. no, just no.

        • Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman

          Me again.

  • We are Legion, cuz we are many Gamers out there in Space 😀

  • PcRules

    And then think about how fast Steam will rise when those Steam-Boxes comes out!
    Well you know so more average stupid Joes/Janes will come into Pc Gaming 😀

    And thats a good F*CKING thing, it only means one more nail in the coffin for the F*CKN consoles 😉

    It’s pretty much simple, Pc Gaming Rules!!

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  • Johannna_L

    Active accounts and active users are TWO different things. Imagine the crash if over 100 MILLION tried to log in at once! Tekken series maker Harada have an old account and while his account is active he is not an active user. Also this news is outdated as dualshockers pointed out: Its not 8+ Million at once but 9+. Soon it will hit 10 Million + which is more than sold Xbox 1 consoles!

    • Stian Kleppe

      It’s more then likely 100 million active users if you prefer that word. If you look at Steam, and it’s stats in general, 10% of Steam users play Dota 2. At any given time.

      Steam: 8,356,977

      Dota 2: 847,413

      When Steam was at 9 million, guess, what game had over 900.000 playing.

      And guess how many active Dota 2 players there are per month. Exactly, 10 million, which is also 10% of 100 million.

      Also, every number we get from Valve is in the last 30 days. Dota 2, CS:go Tf2. They all operate on 30 days.

      And with their previous announcement, at Steam Dev Days, they announced 75 million active users. It had grown with 10 million, in 3 months. And Steam dev Days is 11 months ago. So.. 100 million active USERS, or accounts if you prefer, is the only right answer to this.

      • Johannna_L

        100 Million + registered accounts is the preferred word as a Steam registered account is counted as active user (Even if its not the case, as it implies that 100 Million is online at once as many inactive users have their accounts listed as active) Had all these “active accounts” been online, you think Steam had still been up? 9M+ is still a staggering number though. No doubt it will soon be 10M+ at once.

        • Stian Kleppe

          Registered accounts is accounts made, ever. Which would be far beyond 100 million.

          Active accounts is activity in the last 30 days. Which is above 100 million now.

          Concurrent users is users online at once, as we know from the steam stats page in Steam.

          An inactive account hasn’t been in use for some time, and isn’t counted in this in any way.

      • juliuscicero

        8,000,000 logged in, not playing. looking at those figures its more like dota 2 has about 70% of players and that is a very bad thing for pc gaming. majority is microtransaction. 10,000 playing farcry 4? ouch. not many high end pc out there

  • different graph same story