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News video games 20 December 2020, 14:51

author: Paul Musiolik

Steam's Autumn Sale Was the Biggest One Ever

Valve boasted that Steam's autumn sale was the biggest sale in store's history. Both on the side of players, as well as developers and publishers.

IN A NUTSHELL:
  1. Steam's autumn sale was the biggest in the history of the store.
  2. Valve shared some stats.

This year's Steam autumn sale was the biggest in the history of the store. Valve shared a handful of interesting stats in an entry summarizing its last sale. The most important thing from the point of view of gamedev teams is that this year's autumn sale was the biggest sale in terms of revenue for developers and publishers. This shows that Valve's website is still the best market to sell video games from year to year, despite growing competition.

As far as gamers are concerned, more than one million people made their first transaction in the store during the autumn sale, which is 33% more than a year ago. 24 million people were active on Steam during the promotion's period, which is 7 million more than in 2019.

Valve also boasted that more titles than ever were successful during this autumn sale - from games that made at least $10,000 to those that made over $1 million. This was achieved, among other things, through improved store browsing. There was a convenient subpage for each game genre, where some titles were highlighted and others were easy to access.

Steams Autumn Sale Was the Biggest One Ever - picture #1
An example of a subpage, which Valve boasted.

Finally, it was also revealed that 5.3 million voters this year nominated various titles more than 30 million times for the upcoming Steam Awards 2020. More than 1.6 million users unlocked the badge this year, sending their feedback on any game.

  1. Steam - official website

Paul Musiolik

Paul Musiolik

Started writing about games on the SquareZone website. Later, he wrote and managed the non-existent PSSite.com, and currently runs his own blog about games. He hasn't yet written a text that he would be 100% satisfied with. He started his adventure with games at the age of 3, when he managed to convince his father to buy a C64 computer. The love for electronic entertainment awakened by Flimbo's Quest blossomed during the first adventures with Heroes of Might & Magic, reaching its peak after purchasing the first PlayStation. As he grew older, he had more encounters with Nintendo portable consoles, and also returned to the PC as an additional gaming platform. He collects games and is a fan of emulation.

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