Steam has set a new record for users simultaneously connected to Steam, with a total of 26,401,443 users. This surpasses the previous record of January 2 of this year with around 1 million users. The January record was around 25,4 million users. Please note that this number is only for users who are logged into Steam, not for players who are active in the game. This means that all those millions of users were at least logged into Steam, but they weren't necessarily playing a game in-game. .time. However, this number of in-game users peaked at 7.3 million when the new record for simultaneously connected users was reached. In terms of users who were in the game, that record remains intact, sitting comfortably at 8.1 million registered in March 2020. This was led by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which at the time became the third game in the game. platform in beat . the million concurrent player mark, no doubt helped by the switch to home lifestyles last year.
Become scorching
While the pandemic has been a major factor in Steam's steady growth over the past year, it's not the only contributor. Chinese players will currently be particularly active online. As the country that had some of the strictest lockdowns, it's no surprise that many players found their options limited. An extremely popular and region-exclusive RPG, Tale of Immortal saw China record the game as the fourth most popular in terms of player count across the entire Steam platform. It is behind only CS:GO, Dota 2 and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. China and other Asian countries will also celebrate Lunar New Year and its variants this Friday, February 12. The holidays have already begun for many, no doubt contributing to the momentum for Valve that their platform is currently enjoying.
Forward and up
Looking at Valve's 2020 year in review, we can see that the company was anticipating this kind of growth: "While Steam was already seeing significant growth in 2020 before the COVID-19 lockdowns, video game playtime increased as people started staying home, dramatically increasing the number of customers buying and playing games and hopefully bringing joy to offset some of the craziness of 2020.” Valve also shed light on key stats this year. Their results include record monthly active users (120,4 million), daily active users (62,6 million), new product buyers on Steam (2,6 million per month), total watch time (31,3 billion hours) and a 21,4% increase in games purchased in 2020 over 2019. Many countries are still dealing with the pandemic and various lockdown measures. It is not out of the question that Steam's concurrent user base will continue to grow in 2021. However However, with the statistics released by Steam (especially its new buyer registrations and the number of games purchased), there may be plenty of new users here to stay.