Again this year, steam The record for the largest number of people online at the same time has been refreshed.
If you thought Valve’s storefront and PC platform were impressive when they soared to the milestone of more than 25 million concurrent users earlier this year, you would be surprised to find that it broke that record again. twice.
Steam broke its record high again and successfully attracted more than 27,100,000 concurrent players on Saturday, November 27th. The next day (Sunday, November 28) the record was broken again, with more than 27,300,000 people flocking to play games on the holiday weekend.
However, not all players above 27 million are in the game. The vast majority are simply logging in, chatting or being idle. According to SteamDB data, when Steam broke records, only about 7.8 million people were actively playing games. But this is what usually happens on the platform.
Given that Steam has historically broken its own record in December/January due to people taking a break during Christmas and New Years, we are likely to expect this record to change again soon. who knows? Maybe if the lockdown happens again, we will also see Steam break its record again due to the pandemic.
We already know that the weekend is an important weekend for the game. There are more people playing “Simulation Farm 22” than “Battlefield 2042”, and “Halo Infinity” continues to attract more players (despite all these progress issues).
The launch of the Steam platform in 2022 is likely to also help the company’s future number of concurrent players.
