30 Million People Were Logged Into Steam Today - Kotaku

Valve’s Steam level launched each the mode backmost successful 2003, and for overmuch of that clip saw dilatory and dependable maturation arsenic it grew from a spot you could bargain Half-Life games to the PC’s default gaming marketplace. What has happened implicit the past 2 years, though, has been incredible.

In 2015, Steam acceptable a grounds for concurrent users—the fig of radical logged into the service—at 10 cardinal people. That was 12 years aft the work launched.

In 2017, we reported that Steam had acceptable a caller record, this clip astatine 14 million. Not atrocious maturation for conscionable 2 years.

In March 2020, that grounds had blown retired to 20 million. March 2020 is an important constituent successful this timeline; for astir countries this is erstwhile the pandemic truly kicked off, lockdowns began, and a batch much radical started spending a batch much clip online (and realising that you could play a batch of precise bully video games connected Steam, often for precise debased prices).

We got to 28 cardinal users earlier this year—more than the full populations of countries similar Australia and Taiwan—and now, successful precocious October, we’ve deed the bully circular fig of 30 million, with the highest fig of users logged connected earlier contiguous lasting astatine 30,032,005.

Note that this isn’t the fig of radical playing astatine immoderate 1 time, conscionable the fig of radical logged into the platform, a feat that’s often achieved simply by turning your PC on. If you privation to cognize the fig of users really successful a crippled astatine that time, SteamDB figures enactment the highest astatine astir 8.5 million, which is inactive an tremendous figure, and a large leap (proportionally) adjacent from earlier successful 2022, erstwhile the highest fig of progressive players stood astatine “between 7 and 8 million”.