Steam has just set a new record for its concurrent players. According to SteamData, there were over 28 million concurrent players on January 9th, 2022.
Steam surpassed 27 million concurrent players in November 2021. This basically means that Valve’s digital service was able to surpass its previous record in one and a half months.
It’s also interesting taking a look at the most played games when Steam set its new concurrent players record. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is at the top, followed by DOTA 2, PUBG Battlegrounds and Apex Legends. GTA5 is in fifth place, followed by Rust, New World and ARK. Football Manager 2022 is also doing great as it’s in 9th place and Team Fortress 2 is in 10th place.
Below you can find the full list of the top twenty most played games!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
Poor timmy tencent lol
sad chinese rat puppet money cries but no community 🙁
If that idiot Sweeney would do what he said when EGS first opened and stop spending all of the investment money on game give aways and exclusives then he might have a shot at EGS becoming something close to the next Steam.
Do you guys remember what he said when EGS first started? He said he would build a store that would one day rival Steam. Whatever happened to that?
Although I am yet to spend a cent on EGS but actively grab all the weekly free games, I must say that Sweeney’s plan is long term focused and the target demographics are the teenagers and college pass outs.
With a free game every week and sometimes 2 games, Sweeney is building a younger generation of gamers who will have a long game catalogue on EGS, while their Steam profiles lacks any games. As these gamers grow up and start to purchase games, they will prefer building their EGS profile rather than Steam. Though, this strategy can fail, but as we are currently reluctant to spend money on EGS and love building our game catalogue on Steam, this generation will prefer the contrary.
I’m not so sure if Sweeney’s long term plan is intelligent. He’s attracting gamers that will expect something for nothing. The proof will be when Sweeney stops giving games away and then we will probably see that EGS was a financial flop.
Right, its a gamble they are making. As you said when they stop giving out free stuffs, only then we will factually know if Sweeney is a hero or a zero.
Well done.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9d5d1f84d76abeba51eaf7c74ee876750033f479d31374e27921efac524f5f9c.jpg
I expect Steam records will continue to rise as long as we have Covid 19 causing disruptions in our work and social lives. People get bored just sitting at home and a lot of people seek relief from the boredom with video games.
With the situation its a good thing, gaming currently really save lives (and in part sanity) in the end
You don’t need play games to be counted as “Steam concurrent user”. All you need is Steam launched in background when your PC is started. A lot of people have all popular launchers run when system starts
But but… pc gaming was dead at least 10 years ago =P
Although you have to admit that the state we are in right now is ridiculous.
That’s not the fault of PC gaming, but the fault of crypto miners, but GPU prices have made building a PC a nightmare.
I know plenty of people who would have built a PC but got an Xbox One S instead due to GPU prices.
I frankly can not wait until ponzi schemes like Ethereum crash.
Yeah, higher PC/Components demand due to covid and combined with the shortage of components also due to covid but also due to miners have pushed the prices to the stratosphere to say the least. Hope it will return to normal soon.
Its good that more and more country’s have started to crack down on the mining as it also eats a lot of energy and thus push the electricity prices so its a price hike in two fronts for us gamers that’s caused by mining
The demand is higher due mainly to the latest mining craze but also due to people being stuck at home and wanting entertainment.
Another huge impact that miners are having on gamers is that they are willing to spend 2 to 3 times MSRP on cards. They can get their money back out of it by mining.
When the latest mining craze hit I said “live and let live” but now I say “live and let mining die”. Miners are parasites that are seriously hurting PC gaming and they don’t care. Some are even arrogant about it.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4f2aeb9d9272d9a8b77a6db7f0c2f372f9c93e919d9ae56094ed1cf7b8764be3.jpg
This miner said that he put this mining rig in his BMW just to annoy gamers. He has another mining rig at home with 78 RTX 3080.
I’m one of the lucky ones that bought a RTX 2070 Super for MSRP before the latest mining craze so I’m fine but millions and millions of gamers are not fine. They are running lower midrange Pascals and Maxwells which needs an upgrade for today’s games.
I see PC gaming as a hobby that we are all a part of. If an outsider group like parasite miners is causing trouble for our hobby then I will speak out.
I wouldn’t expect the scarcity and hugely inflated prices to go away with the 4xxx series. It will be the same thing as the current series. Miners won’t go away when the 4xxx series comes out.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/demand-for-pc-components-saw-a-surge-due-to-covid-19-says-beroe-inc-301368253.html
https://fortune.com/2021/01/11/covid-computer-sales-lenovo-hp-dell-apple/
https://www.statista.com/chart/12578/global-pc-shipments/
Yeah, I’m sure their _all_ wrong…
People made a big deal about all of the return for refunds of Cyberpunk 2077. The game had 8 million pre-orders and CDPR reported in their Earnings Call that only 30,000 people asked for a refund. That’s a pretty clear sign of the state of the average gamer today.
Please, aliens, bomb this planet.
And this is after it was blocked in China recently? Interesting
Hey Latex, maybe you should start focusing on your own problems instead of complaining about something trivial like mtx? If you use 2022 to work on yourself I’m sure you could end up being a worthwhile boy…maybe even a man in a few years. You can do it!
It’s usually 6am MST and I am sleeping when these records happen. I’ll never be apart of these things
I have some friends that have a Steam account and they do not buy or play games on it. They just watch people stream games. I do not know if they would be counted as players or not.
The main reason these games always at high numbers, is because multiplayer games have replayability value, you can play them all the time,
While I enjoyed TW3, I can’t stand playing it more than 3 times,
One IP I really enjoy replaying is probably dark souls