It appears that Valve has leaked the total number of players for almost every game that is currently available on Steam right now. A recently discovered hole in Valve’s API allowed gamers to generate extremely precise and publicly accessible data for the total number of players for Steam games that featured Achievements.
As ArsTechnica pointed out, the following table was created thanks to the accuracy of Steam’s Achievement percentages.
“The new data derivation method, as ably explained in a Medium post from The End Is Nigh developer Tyler Glaiel, centers on the percentage of players who have accomplished developer-defined Achievements associated with many games on the service. On the Steam web site, that data appears rounded to two decimal places. In the Steam API, however, the Achievement percentages were, until recently, provided to an extremely precise 16 decimal places.
This added precision means that many Achievement percentages can only be factored into specific whole numbers. (This is useful since each game’s player count must be a whole number.) With multiple Achievements to check against, it’s possible to find a common denominator that works for all the percentages with high reliability. This process allows for extremely accurate reverse engineering of the denominator representing the total player base for an Achievement percentage.”
In July 4, Valve updated its Steam API to provide much less precision in its Achievement percentages. As such, the following table is only relevant for these past/next few days. Moreover, Valve has already expressed its desire to provide a more accurate way for users and developers to get – perhaps sales and player count – data out of Steam.
So without further ado, here are the top 10 games with the highest amount of players on Steam right now.
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Kinda sad. Not one fighting game…
there aren’t a lot of black people on PC, they’re poor and can’t afford PC.
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It’s a good idea to avoid him in general.
why?
to be clear, i was pointing the fact that blacks play fighting games more than any other race so the reason that fighting games aren’t selling well on PC is because majority of black people play on consoles (lack of black people on PC) and the reason behind that is because blacks are poor (they can’t afford PC) and the reason behind that is their genetically low iq (if blacks GENERALLY had higher iq they would have better jobs)
well since you think it was obvious then i think you’re able to put everything together yourself. do you really need statistics and source for something like blacks and poverty or their average iq?
I award you with the dumbest comment of the day sir. Feel free to delete your account at any time to spare us all of your ignorance.
I’ll agree that he didn’t provide causational evidence for his specific claim, but it is statistical fact that blacks have the highest poverty rate per demographic in the US so I wouldn’t call the correlation “Ignorant”. I don’t know the data in other countries.
But carry on virtue signaling, by all means, calling for an end to the medium of speech of people you disagree with.
Notice how instead of correcting his remarks with your own data, you suggested his account should instead be deleted and his expression forfeit. How is that supposed to make the world better?
he even forgot to tip his fedora, what a failure.
Indeed. He presumably felt good to have virtue signalled.
Meanwhile in the real world there is actual research out there that points to console gaming being more commonplace per head among black gamers than it is among games of other races in the US.
A website by the name of The Undefeated published an article on the subject, specifically esports, written by a black female author. Top Hats and Champagne made a video response on YouTube to said article’s nonsense SJW-type arguments.
“majority of blacks are rich, majority of blacks play on PC”
the above statement is opposite of what i said before, either my first statement was/is wrong and i’m ignorant and dumb or my second statement is wrong and you’re dumb. you decide.
no it was statistics, read my other comments in this thread. by the way i’m not racist and i’m not claiming anything, i’m pointing out the facts and flaws which every race and country have.
learn some basic statistics like the fact that blacks have very low iqs on average so that you wouldn’t be wasting your time next time.
You forgot the japs who rather play these games on arcade or consoles
no one counts japanese, they have their own thing separate from rest of the world in everything. do you really thing mortal kombat is popular in japan?
Not really Pc gaming niche
no fallout 3 !
The top dominated by GaaS for impulse shoppers who cant hold their wad or old af singleplayer games from last gen because gamers are modding them and bored. AAA companies are too busy to make new, real games from counting their tripled profits after conning everyone all gen with microtransactions and loot boxes.
What garbage is this lol
Where’s denuvo infected games on that list??I thought it intended to secure sales..more protection more sales,right???
To be fair, lots of online and free to play games on the list.
Ahh … I was bewildered why DOTA 2 wasn’t in the top ten. The game has to have achievements to be counted
Barely any SJW-pandering videogames made the top 100. Who’d have thunk it!
Nor, evidently, could you. ?
just wait for bf5 launch there is your sjw game.
Not on Steam it won’t be.
true that its still sjw trash tho.
True that.
YOU WATCH THE QUARTERING?
I saw the story on Geeks & Gamers, haha! A YouTube channel that primarily focuses on Star Wars which just happens to be another entertainment franchise being critically and commercially destroyed by SJWs.
You think that others would learn from this kind of data. The NFL loses viewers when it became political and tried to enforce morality on it’s audience.
Games that do the same don’t tend to sell well either. There’s definitely an emergent pattern. But instead of acknowledge it, the left likes to double down.
Now you have black politicians like Maxine Waters who claims she’s fighting racism rallying mobs in the streets to seek out white Trump voters in every day places and tell them they are not welcome. lol.
Indeed. ‘Get woke, go broke’ to coin a phrase.
It seems that about the only people who care to be seeing it in games is the SJW-infested US games media and a small but highly vocal number of Leftist political activists. Gamers en masse evidently don’t care to be playing such games, paying to see such movies, buying such comic books, etc.
There’s a clear disconnect between the public majority and the media.
“There’s a clear disconnect between the public majority and the media.”
On that I think most will agree with you. It’s what got the Orange Guy elected President. Political Correctness is a joke with most of the people I know. Media in general pushes it but it doesn’t stick. Did you hear about the Transgender Miss Spain entering the Miss Universe Pageant? What next?
I think its more politically neutral games. Nobody likes politics invading fun, no matter what kind they are
Nah, if they did a Doom Style Game Where Trump Is The Main Character filling Leftist Scum full of Lead and saying One off catch phrases….I bet that game would sell massive numbers!!!
I really doubt it. I would buy it, but I really doubt it would sell well.
And the ones who do show up tend to keep the SJW bs in the down low (moderation, praising SJW but avoiding it in the game per se,case in point Subnautica)
I’m glad these numbers leaked out because it confirms something that I have suspected all these years. In the top 23 there are Left 4 Dead 2 (23 million), Portal 2 (13 million) and Half Life 2 (8.9 million). Even after 14 years there are almost 9 million people playing HL2.
Can there be even a slight doubt that a third game for any of those titles would be a huge financial success?
Sad, that Day of Defeat has almost 4.5 million copies out there and no new verision on the horizon 🙁
Perhaps its the new Valve/Turtle Rock game?
Turtle Rock is pozzed, they should bring another team
Huge as in, bigger than Gabe Newell fat**s? Maybe not as huge, so that’s why they don’t bother
See, this is why we can’t have HL3. Because every time someone makes a joke about the Gaben being a fat-a*s he delays HL3 for another month. This has been going on for over a decade now.
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i must be the only one that doesnt like esport games.
GTA V doesn’t deserve 12+ million after releasing the game 3 years late for pc >_>
If this were true, Donald Trump would never have been elected president.
It’s MUCH more than a small subset.
TRUMP 2020 maga
what, no armored warfare, WOT blitz, WOWS in the top list 100 ?? only war thunder….?? >.<
You could say other things as well like no Denuvo games on top 100, but SJW free games is always a nice touch
What is your logic here? You play games on consoles so you read articles and comment on them on a PC gaming site? Why would you even click on an article about Steam anyway? Origin sells new BF games. Steam should have no relevance to you at all.
Unturned, never even heard the name before, and it’s number 4 ? WTF ? it looks like a poor man’s minecraft.