Last week, Steam hit 35 million concurrent players. And in just a week, Valve’s digital service was able to set yet another new record. Yep, Steam has passed over 36 million concurrent players.
To be more precise, Steam hit 36.354 million concurrent players. So, it’s not THAT close to the 37 million goal. At least for now.
What’s really ironic here is that I never imagined Steam would hit that record so soon. In my previous article, I was wondering whether it would be possible to hit 36 million concurrent players by Summer 2024. Heh, I was such a fool. Am I right?
It’s now interesting to take a look at the Top 20 Most Played Games in the last 24 hours and compare them with those we had last week.
As always, Counter-Strike 2 is the most played game, followed by DOTA 2 and Helldivers 2. Yep, Helldivers 2 has managed to gain two places and it’s now the third most-played game (at least in the last 24 hours).
PUBG: Battlegrounds and APEX Legends are in fourth and fifth place, respectively. In the sixth place, we find Tomb Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. Rainbow Six Siege was in the seventeenth place last week, so that’s a huge increase. Baldur’s Gate 3 also gained three places. On the other hand, Palworld and GTA 5 lost four and two places, respectively.
And that is that. Let’s also place some bets. How long will it take for Steam to meet its 37 million goal? Will it happen this or next month?
Stay tuned for more!
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Happened faster than I thought. My guess after the last record was that this new record would be set possibly within 2 months and it happened very, very quickly.
The Steam detractors just don’t get it why a store like EGS is a flop even though giving away games for 5 years and the timed AAA exclusives. Gamers like Steam because it’s the best store out there.
Next stop 37 million concurrent players and it won’t end there. S*ck it up Sweeney. You lost big time.
There are real steam detractors who legitimately prefer other launchers? I don’t hate the other launchers but when another place has a better deal than steam and just launches the game I don’t have huge problem purchasing elsewhere. Even past that Steam just has so much so its hard for me to imagine that people hate steam besides maybe some publishers or devs that would prefer a more favorable revenue split.
The best launcher is no launcher. Everything i want i get on my desktop screen.
I dont mind having a launcher to organize everything in one place that also is a hub for various other resources
People like 64K literally shill for companies for zero dollars it seems.
Concurrent users. The vast majority of people didn’t have any game open when the record was set, they just have Steam open in the background.
I’m not disputing what you are saying but wouldn’t the same have been true for all of the past records. I don’t think the logical conclusion is that more and more users are leaving Steam open in the background. The implication is still that there is ever increasing Steam activity in some way.
The same is true for all past records, yes. The issue is that there are two separate records: concurrent users and concurrent players, and incorrect reporting just makes it confusing for no reason.
This “Thumbs Up”
Mostly from new users from China. Simplified Chinese language users are now #1, and outnumber English language users.
you would think a domestic version to rival steam would emerge by now in china, the market size is there for it.
It’s called Epic Games Store.
False.
They just have steam regulated for their tastes, no need for that.
We are here to stay
Meanwhile, for those who missed the news, there’s a new contender for the title of best gaming OS in the world:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bca56b64e429aa297db73791b8a27d52f9fdd4ab87370882c4959729f38e750a.png
I have to admit that I’m not particularly happy about the way they describe SteamOS there, given that you are in no way locked into the “Valveverse”.
Then again, I like what they have to say about Linux in particular:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d0f9279b76b2376e5d4fa7e07068b9766552560866b5069f40226212b930567b.png
Anyhow, there is certainly talent behind it, so any competition in this space is welcome, because it will push the whole segment of gaming on Linux further:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/91f05950529aadadff0443ef9e719873613cb515ef5d8c835c8ea370e89e3714.png
Exciting times ahead…
Steam is the best overall online store for games because of the reviews really, if you can see through the obvious fanboys, fake paid for ones, ai etc and get down into the well written revs you can get an impression if the game is worth the time and cost more than most other places. Look at the star wars collection disaster, even with all those diehards they messed up they got bottomed out in the reviews hilarious. Also the open info that afaik no other store offers. The discussions are also a good place for game info like do patches break this or that etc
That’s why the Metal Gear Solid (((Demasturd))) Collection has Very Positive reviews now even when it couldn’t fix something as simple as adding resolution options and instead is stuck with 720p below the already awful and false marketed 1080p resolution 5 months now, right?
These types of toxic, edgy, nerdy and cringe low-life scums on the Steam reviews with low standards and no life whatsoever who are spamming the “no one will read this so I will say that I’m gay” reviews to get the most upvotes possible with no effort are exactly the ones enabling these filthy Jewish companies to continue releasing their ugly, unoptimized, unplayable gaymes that require thousands of post-launch patches and only become remotely half playable years after release and get away with it all the time.
Agree with you it’s not something you should look at for the overall score because there is a lot of spam, paid for, ai bots etc doing reviews and a lot of goofball ones too. Read negatives first. Epig has no reviews other than junalism paid for ones, gog doesn’t feature latest games so overall steam is the best platform.
CP77 is a good example of what you’re saying, how people can forgive those lying scum cptranneedurdtards is sad. All this masterpiece this masteripice that is just cringey and I think also cpdur has a large budget for fake reviews, reddit posts and such using AI. 2.0 was unnecessary and PL is just more of the same really. It’s a graphical masterpiece but everything else is mid or bad really. The MGS collection is an insult also, I got the free version and it’s deleted for a while, yeah lots of bootlickers there no doubt. And steam plays games w algos for selling. Pacific Drive is also another trash game that has mostly positives there, tranneeemafia like nexisnotsees.
Those are beggars reviewers/coonsoomers: They want console games ported to PC so they will slurp any praise for those releases no matter how flawed.
Strange, i never rely on reviews, just good old piratebay and warez sites.
I guess if you have the patience for that, usually there’s no reviews just rando comments here and there it’s nothing like a dedicated review board. Even metacritic is more focused but bombed by the devs themselves for bonuses etc Reddit is usually either one way or the other and usually it’s syncophants that get through the notsee admins etc
I mostly paid modded stalker and some random game here and there, most AAA games are locked behind DRM so i don’t have urge to play woke stuff.
Coudn’t you wait for when it reaches 40 million? Now it’s a new story every million for dimwitted John it seems.
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I’m not surprised …. Gaming revenue last year exceeded both the movie industry and the music industry combined
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