Steam Sets New Record with 18.8 Million Concurrent Users - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 March 2020 / 2,524 Views
Valve's Windows PC digital store, Steam, has set a new record with 18,801,944 concurrent players, which was set over the weekend, according to SteamDB.
The new record is up from the previous record of 18.5 million players. However, the total number of people playing games were 1.2 million lower with the new record.
.@Steam has broken its record for most concurrently online users that was held for two years. Previous record was 18,537,490 users. It's still increasing!
But there's about 1 million less players actually in-game (≈5.8mil vs ≈7mil two years ago).https://t.co/D6WDHbz0B4
— SteamDB (@SteamDB) February 2, 2020
Valve's next game, Half-Life: Alyx, will launch for Windows PC via Steam in March 2020.
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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Cool, I guess. Steam can run in the background without much trouble, so I imagine that record will likely be broken again and again over time, as PC computing is only getting better, and more users are reluctant to close out of the app when they aren't playing. Plus background downloading of game updates makes it a no-brainer for people that play games that are frequently updated. But still pretty cool. I have Steam and EGS running on my PC at all times.
You are killing the hype brother.
I'm the worst :(
Almost 19 people using Steam right now. Amazing.
That last 19th guy, was only 0.8 of a person :)
Seriously title should make it clear that its talking about millions of users, its not enough to just write 18.8.
And your ironic post, KingsofTrolls got the job done. It now mentions millions.
Chinese people enjoying their holiday home due to the coronavirus?
And this just shows that Sony is digging it's own graves with less focus on exclusive titles and a bigger focus on 3rd party games.
Both Sony and Xbox want a piece of this audience and you wont get it by staying in the console market.
And this just shows that Sony is digging it's own graves with less focus on exclusive titles and a bigger focus on 3rd party games.
