Valve’s gaming platform, Steam, is among the top choices among computer gamers. As a result, the number of players on the platform is an important indicator to understand the interest in computer games. As of today, Steam broke another record in terms of instant active players.
The fact that there was a holiday due to Thanksgiving in the USA and that schools were on holiday in some countries were developments that paved the way for a new record for Valve’s platform. The productions that stood out among the preferences of gamers were free games.
Great interest in free games
Games such as CS: GO, Dota 2, Warzone 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Apex Legends, Lost Ark were among the most preferred productions. In addition, GTA 5, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Rust productions, which have been the favorites of gamers for a long time, also attracted great attention.
With the arrival of winter in the northern hemisphere, players seem to have started to spend more time at home. This increases the number of online players in addition to the number of instant players. In addition to the frequent increase in the number of players throughout 2022, there is also an increase in the number of online players who are not actively playing games.
While everyone is sure of the new record coming on November 26, there are different figures on how many players were online at the time of the record. According to the official Steam data, while the record was broken, 31 million 336 thousand 174 people were playing games at the same time. According to SteamDB, the record for the number of players was 31 million 379 thousand 760.
Let’s see if we will see a new record in terms of number of Steam players during Christmas and New Year’s, or will this record be one of the records that could not be broken for a long time?
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