According to SteamDB, Steam has broken its record for most concurrently online users. The last record was set on January 14th back in 2018. That record was 18.537.490 million users while the new record currently is 18.801.944 million users online.
While the number of online players is higher, the number of users in-game is lower. Back in January of 2018, more than seven million users were in-game. At the time of the new record only 5.956.968 users were playing.
The top games on Steam together account for around 2.5 million users. Starting from the top these game are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, Grand Theft Auto V and Monster Hunter: World.
Last year Steam hit the one billion account mark. Now with the announcement of Half-Life: Alyx and with all the Half-life games being free-to-play, I guess the numbers will increase even higher.
.@Steam has broken its record for most concurrently online users that was held for two years. Previous record was 18,537,490 users. It's still increasing!
But there's about 1 million less players actually in-game (≈5.8mil vs ≈7mil two years ago).https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) February 2, 2020
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yet no even half of them are in game cuz 2019 was dosh,t for gaming ,,,,,
tim sweeney now cry lol
Unfortunately unless the numbers come directly from Valve now this is just a educated guess, since compared to last years now if our your profile is on Private even for your friends it will not show you in game anymore.
If it’s from Steam database/ Steamspy then it’s legit most of the times. This is not EGS we’re talking about.
Steamspy is operated by the Head of Publishing at EGS…
And that makes the site less trustworthy? It worked fine so far, over the years.
The steamdb author states that you can see what private profiles are playing through the api
Yet when private profiles became standard SteamDB count of sold units in games became totally unreliable, so yeah i don’t know about that.
Fernando and bizzyiggy or whatever his name is on suicide watch.
why is this even exciting news? 18million people had the program open. that’s about it. it doesn’t sound that great considering there are a billion accounts. surprised people even close the app tho
Don’t hold your breath though that HL Alyx will play a big part on increase those numbers further..