Steam Breaks User Record [Nov 27, 2021, 12:38 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
SteamDB tweets
that Steam has broken its concurrent users record, and the new all-time peak
is 27,182,165. Pointing to this
graph to help us visualize the news, the post explains:
Steam once again beats its online concurrent users record with over 27 million users currently online.
Previous record was set in April at 26.9 million.
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eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 28, 2021, 12:31:Yeah baby!
You mean when we can finally check out both freebies in 1 click...
I'm proud of each and everyone of you that make this possible. Go steam Go! Hip Hip...
RedEye9 wrote on Nov 28, 2021, 08:46:JohnBirshire wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 23:26:Epic knows exactly what they are doing.
Steam needs to lower their cut from 30% to 10% so they too can lose $100's of millions a year until they go out of business.
Those expenses won't matter once the store gets a shopping cart because they'll make up for them with volume.
You mean when we can finally check out both freebies in 1 click...
The best just keeps getting better. Keep running up the score, Steam. Haha.
JohnBirshire wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 23:26:Epic knows exactly what they are doing.
Steam needs to lower their cut from 30% to 10% so they too can lose $100's of millions a year until they go out of business.
Those expenses won't matter once the store gets a shopping cart because they'll make up for them with volume.
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RedEye9 wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 16:14:
What happened in 2018 that could have caused that increase: was it the introduction of RTX cards or VR or something else.
If you look even closer the users usually peak each year around Christmas (the peak sales volume time) and the following month while everyone is playing their new games.
Great illustration of why Gamestop became irrelevant.
"Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss." - The Who.
JohnBirshire wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 23:26:Don't forget freebies and anti-consumer third-party exclusives—that'll win over consumers. Those Epic suits sure know what they're doing.Kxmode wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 15:45:Steam needs to lower their cut from 30% to 10% so they too can lose $100's of millions a year until they go out of business.
You better watch out Valve. Epic is going to supplant you.
"The present is a veil between anticipation and horror. Lift the veil... and madness may follow." source
RogueSix wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 21:58:
The Omikron escapism is real.
You seem to have forgotten that the Black Friday game sale was yesterday.
So my guess is people are trying their new games in droves.
Altho both hypotheses aren't mutually exclusive.
Kxmode wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 15:45:Steam needs to lower their cut from 30% to 10% so they too can lose $100's of millions a year until they go out of business.
You better watch out Valve. Epic is going to supplant you.
The Omikron escapism is real.
I was on Steam briefly. I didn't play anything too. I doubt I will be playing anything this long weekend! Stupid life. 
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 13:02:An insightful distinction, Sir.
Hrm, I guess the idea of the sales attracts people, even if the actual sale prices aren't that spectacular anymore. I would have thought it would be WAY higher than 26-27 million though... I always picture Steam as being a platform hundreds of millions of people use, although I guess timezones, people having to sleep, etc.
My country, Argentina, figures with high attendance and sales, as it's regularly the country with lowest prices on Steam.
Sadly, this blessing is because of our galactic level inflation, not because of honoring Messi or Maradona as some say.
*hiccup*
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 27, 2021, 13:02:Lots of people game outside of PCs: Android, Apple, PS, XBox, etc.
Hrm, I guess the idea of the sales attracts people, even if the actual sale prices aren't that spectacular anymore. I would have thought it would be WAY higher than 26-27 million though... I always picture Steam as being a platform hundreds of millions of people use, although I guess timezones, people having to sleep, etc.
Lots of people PC game outside of Steam: Origin, GoG, EGS, etc.
Lots of people game on Steam offline and aren't counted among concurrent users.
I'm a smoldering volcano of virility. At least, that's what I tell myself.
EDS now in steam threads. 
If you look at the Lifetime concurrent users on Steam graph over a period of the last year not much has happened, if you look at it over a period of 3 years you can see where covid hit and if you go back to 2018 there was another significant bump. What happened in 2018 that could have caused that increase: was it the introduction of RTX cards or VR or something else.
If you look at the Lifetime concurrent users on Steam graph over a period of the last year not much has happened, if you look at it over a period of 3 years you can see where covid hit and if you go back to 2018 there was another significant bump. What happened in 2018 that could have caused that increase: was it the introduction of RTX cards or VR or something else.
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You better watch out Valve. Epic is going to supplant you.
"The present is a veil between anticipation and horror. Lift the veil... and madness may follow." source
Timmy/EGS only can dream of those figures.
Hrm, I guess the idea of the sales attracts people, even if the actual sale prices aren't that spectacular anymore. I would have thought it would be WAY higher than 26-27 million though... I always picture Steam as being a platform hundreds of millions of people use, although I guess timezones, people having to sleep, etc.
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