Steam Sets New Record with 18.5 Million Concurrent Users - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 January 2018 / 2,768 Views
Steam has continued to grow and over the weekend set a new record with a peak of 18.5 million concurrent users. That is an increase of 4.5 million from the 14 million concurrent users in January 2017.
Concurrent users means the number of people currently logged into Steam and not the number of people playing games on Steam.
Here is a list of peak concurrent users going back to 2012:
- January 2012: 5 million
- January 2013: 6.6 million
- December 2013: 7 million
- June 2014: 8 million
- March 2015: 9 million
- June 2015: 10 million
- November 2015: 13.4 million
- January 2017: 14 million
- January 2018: 18 million
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Pretty insane numbers, but I'm still waiting on that store revamp Valve.
Well deserved. Best Gaming OS out there and not only the most popular, its the market leader on how to do things with digital. Now all Valve needs to do is work on there quality control like how MS do with there Live Store and it would be perfect, because too much junk can be off putting.
Firstly: Steam isn't an OS.
Steam OS is more or less on life support.
Valve's priorities are not in curating their store.
They want to produce a system that allows the good games to float to the top, and the bad games hide from view completely.
If you are holding out for a time when Steam becomes like a console store: you will be waiting longer than a Half-Life fan.
I know what Steam is don't worry ;)
For me, Valve needs to change there quality control soon because it will only start to hurt them in the long run.
No I don't want Steam to be like the consoles, I just want them to start green lighting projects that aren't trash. Trash games was the reason the industry fell if you remember.
Anyway there is nothing wrong with asking for improvements especially those who have been using it for 12+ years.
