It was only last week I was writing about Steam's growth hitting 34 million players online, and here they are breaking another record to hit well over 35 million.
  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    202·
    6 months ago

    Doesn’t this number mostly just go up? I understand there will be waves as new games become popular and then wane, but surely they’re just going to keep breaking this “record” forever until the market for video games is fully saturated.

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      There’s over 11k people playing left for dead 2 right now, so… Plus once a game gets as big as PUBG did, it’s gonna coast for a long time on reputation alone.

      • ahal@lemmy.ca
        3·
        6 months ago

        You can still hop into a 64 player BF1942 server at most times, even though you can’t even install it in EA app anymore

  • k_rol@lemmy.ca
    51·
    6 months ago

    That really seems low 35 million for the most popular computer game platform on a planet with 100s of millions with internet and gaming.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      18·
      6 months ago

      That’s online at once

      Roughly half of the world will be asleep at any given time, many don’t game on steam alone, etc.

      • k_rol@lemmy.ca
        5·
        6 months ago

        Ah yes good point, I forgot people sleep or work when I’m done both.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
    2·
    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    It was only last week I was writing about Steam’s growth hitting 34 million players online, and here they are breaking another record to hit well over 35 million.

    At 2PM UTC on March 10th, you all smashed that barrier once again for Steam to hit a new peak of 35,385,530 according to SteamDB.

    At the time 11,117,276 people were actually in game too!

    The games with the most players in the last 24 hours were:

    It’s clearly going to be another huge year for Steam, with records being repeatedly broken this early on in the year.

    But it’s not exactly surprising though as we’ve had multiple huge releases recently like Helldivers 2, Palworld and Last Epoch.

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