Steam has just set a new record for concurrent players, as it surpassed over 31 million players that were simultaneously online. This comes only a month after Steam hit its 30 million concurrent player record.
This new record shows how successful Steam really is. It may also explain why a lot of publishers that had their own stores have returned to Valve’s digital store. Microsoft and EA were among the first ones, followed by Activision and Ubisoft.
Let’s also take a look at the most played games when Steam set its new concurrent players record.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is at the top place, followed by Dota 2. PUBG Battlegrounds is in third place, followed by Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2/Warzone 2.0, Apex Legends and Lost Ark. Grand Theft Auto 5 is in seventh place, whereas Wallpaper Engine, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Team Fortress 2 are in eighth, ninth and tenth place, respectively.
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They all have their own launcher, even when you buy them on Steam.
There is no point buying an Ubisoft game on Steam. The only thing Steam does is launch the Ubisoft launcher, so now you’re running 2 launchers at once.
If you want a game from Ubisoft, I suggest to just buy it from Ubisoft directly.
Ubisoft themselves also have better discounts. There is no decent Ubisoft bundle on steam, Valhalla + Immortals Fenyx Rising Pack is $30 on Ubisoft, but this bundle doesn’t exist on Steam. On steam they do have a $99 bundle for Assassin’s Creed, but that is quite expensive compared to just buying the games you want. There’s no Ubisoft+ on Steam either.
Ubisoft thought that at one point. Their share price taught them a lesson.
Ubisoft doesn’t really need Steam.
Valhalla, which is still not available on Steam, topped 20 million players.
My guess is that Valve made some special arrangement with Ubisoft, Microsoft, Activision and EA.
Because these billion $ developers would never agree to hand over 30% to Valve like a small developer. Valve probably gets more in the range of 5% on every sale, or maybe even 0%, because these competing platforms are a threat to Steam and having them on Steam lessens that threat.
Especially Microsoft game pass and Ubisoft+ are direct threats to Steam. Then again, so is something like Netflix. Steam no longer has a monopoly on PC entertainment.
Was that 20 million on PC during a pandemic?
Of course if they didn’t really need Steam they would never be moving back to Steam.
20 mil players,
But how many of that is on PC though
AC Valhalla is already confirmed to be coming on steam
hmmm, i wonder why
That is just misinformation but what is TRUE, though, that what has lead to UbisoFornication market disaster is due to its foolish woke “inclusion/representation” titles that just does not fit the criteria for many of its HISTORY-BASED titles, for years, UbisoFornication sad adventure to NFTs, its endless title’s delays, UbisoFornication employees’ mass exodus, UbisoFornication continued office drama divas’ venom, etc.
If your opinion were close to being true, well, how do even explain Square Enix’s super failures too, the same as UbisoFornication, when SE is still on Steam? ?
SE had several Epic exclusivity deals didn’t they?
Was Marvel’s Avengers an Epic exclusive? Nope – flopped
Was Guardian’s of the Galaxy an Epic exclusive? Nope – flopped
Was DX: Mankind Divided an Epic exclusive? Nope – flopped.
Should I continue with the lists of SE’s titles of failures by being on Steam too, for years? ?
Was Marvel’s Avengers an Epic exclusive? Nope – flopped
Was Guardian’s of the Galaxy an Epic exclusive? Nope – flopped
Was DX: Mankind Divided an Epic exclusive? Nope – flopped.
Should I continue with the lists of SE’s titles of failures by being on Steam too, for years? ?
Sure, continue. Doesn’t prove me wrong that SE went down the path of Epic exclusivity thus hurting sales.
Curious if you think Tim Sweeney’s deal counts as just a single sale of those games.
I’m not sure what you are asking? I think SE going with Epic exclusivity has hurt SE’s reputation and sales including full price release sales.
Tim bought some SE’s games, for a price that is something way more than 60$. how much have this hurt for them, if at all? You can only speculate.
I can and do based on other publishers.
Like i said, speculation.
I guess you missed the Epic V Apple lawsuit not to mention more recent revelations from developers/publishers regarding sales not meeting expectations, hence Epic being known now as a black hole.
“Epic V Apple lawsuit”
Sounds irrelevant.
“sales not meeting expectations”
Can happen with Epic deal or not. And with Epic deal they literally pays the publisher insurance against poor sales, hence my comment about you (dis)counting Timmmy’s deal as just a one single sale of 60$.
“hence Epic being known now as a black hole.”
I didn’t knew that, and based on what? I don’t know if they are still paying for temporary exclusivity, but would publishers refuse a deal if offered?
Marvel avengers and Guardians of Galaxy are both mediocre games. As for Deus ex mankind divided it was also not very much liked as compared to the previous Human revolution which was a far superior game overall. Rise of the tomb Raider, Shadow of the tomb raider, Tomb raider 2013 sold very well on steam
Human revolution superior? I doubt it, and irrelevant in any case because everyone and their mom knows that immersive sims are hard sells.
Not really, having games on steam is much more convenient even if they are launched through another launcher. One of the biggest reason i buy games from steam is that it offers the best regional pricing to people like me who live in third world countries. Often games on Ubisoft store are much more expensive for me as compared to buying it on steam store. My second option is GOG but i only buy old games on GOG because again pricing is a huge issue even on GOG. Steam offers the best prices. Then there are other benefits of buying on steam like discussion boards specific to that game, guides etc. I know we can read the guides and stuff without buying the game from steam but the game has to be on steam store in the first place for those guides or discussions to exist.
Nice
Tim Sweeney is not happy about this news. As much as he has done and the millions he has spent to try to hurt Steam and Steam just keeps growing.
The increase in player count is all going into free-to-play garbage so it’s irrelevant.
Both CSGO and DotA bring in a ton of money.
Hidden in his comment was the phrase “for my interests”.
As is so often the case
How surprising. One of the only places to get most games is breathing records. Say it with me, Mon….op. Why bother!
Of these 20 titles i played 4, and some of those only by a bit, 5 if you count older counter strike. Guess i’m behind the times or something.
here coz wccftech wants me to obliterate the place
31 million concurrent buyf*gs
I don’t think the title of your article matches the content lol. Just kidding, mainly because I had some doubts after reading the article.