30 Million People Were Using Steam Today, A New All-Time Record

Valve’s Steam platform launched all the best way again in 2003, and for a lot of that point noticed gradual and regular progress because it grew from a spot you possibly can purchase Half-Life video games to the PC’s default gaming market. What has occurred over the past two years, although, has been unbelievable.

In 2015, Steam set a report for concurrent customers—the variety of individuals logged into the service—at 10 million individuals. That was 12 years after the service launched.

In 2017, we reported that Steam had set a brand new report, this time at 14 million. Not unhealthy progress for simply two years.

In March 2020, that report had blown out to twenty million. March 2020 is a vital level on this timeline; for many nations that is when the pandemic actually kicked off, lockdowns started, and much more individuals began spending much more time on-line (and realising that you possibly can play a number of superb video video games on Steam, typically for very low costs).

We received to twenty-eight million customers earlier this yr—greater than all the populations of nations like Australia and Taiwan—and now, in late October, we’ve hit the great spherical variety of 30 million, with the height variety of customers logged on earlier right now standing at 30,032,005.

Note that this isn’t the variety of individuals enjoying at anybody time, simply the variety of individuals logged into the platform, a feat that’s typically achieved just by turning your PC on. If you need to know the variety of customers truly in a recreation at the moment, SteamDB figures put the height at round 8.5 million, which remains to be an infinite determine, and an enormous leap (proportionally) even from earlier in 2022, when the best variety of lively gamers stood at “between seven and eight million”.