Steam Breaks New Activity Record
Yesterday, Steam set a new activity record. For the first time the service exceeded the mark of 25 million logged-in users.
Valve has reasons to be happy. Steam has just set a new activity record. Yesterday, at the hottest moment of the day, 25,415,080 people were logged in at once. This was the first day in the company's history, when the threshold of 25 million simultaneous users was crossed.
By comparison, last year in early January, Steam's daily activity records were about 17-18 million people. The website has been slowly gaining popularity across the years, but the process significantly picked up pace since March 2020. The coronavirus pandemic made people spend more time at home and play more often. As a result, Valve's service started to record results of more than 20 million users simultaneously
In December, the threshold of 24 million logged in users was broken several times, and everyone expected that crossing of the 25 million limit is only a matter of time.
It is worth mentioning that not only Steam itself is currently achieving the best results in its history. Yesterday we wrote about a new activity record set on Steam by the agricultural RPG Stardew Valley with 93,466 players simultaneously. It is already out of date - it was beaten a dozen hours ago. The new record is 94,879 people.
All this shows that despite growing competition (e.g. from Epic Games Store), Steam is still developing, and its user base is constantly expanding.
