Steam Crosses 15 Million Concurrent Users

[Megalith]

Steam has hit another milestone: according to SteamDB, the service recently saw 15 million concurrent users for the first time ever. If that wasn't enough, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds crossed an unprecedented 1.3 million concurrent users, the highest ever on Steam. The title for most simultaneous users for a game on the service was previously held by Dota 2: a whopping 1,295,114 online users played the game at its all-time peak.

Steam has played a huge role in taking gaming on desktops forward. In fact, the gaming portal is considered vital when it comes to gamers' view of an OS or an upgrade. This might be the reason why gamers, in general, view Windows 10 favorably. The service has, to its credit, launched several programs like Greenlight and Steam Direct to support independent developers. Steam's previous notable milestones include reaching 6 million concurrent users back in 2012, and crossing 75 million active user accounts in 2014.

 

[Krenum]

 

[STrAYeR]

Wonder how many are troll accounts.

 

[Twisted Kidney]

PC gaming.

Dead.

 

[tetris42]

Wonder how many are troll accounts.

Probably insignificant if they're concurrent players. Troll accounts would only count towards the total.

 

[4saken]

just out of pure curiousity, i wonder how many concurrent XBL or PSN users there are. Hard to find that data it seems.

 

[Sorce]

Which proves that you can sell your game to a statistically insignificant number of users on Steam, and still make really good money.

 

[RogueTadhg]

I would've liked EA and Ubisoft to go back to Steam.

 

[BloodyIron]

Imagine how many subs they would have if they released Half Life 3.

 

[Burticus]

Steam is the way, my friends. All kneel to my mighty backlog!

 

[Semantics]

I would've liked EA and Ubisoft to go back to Steam.

And they would like to pay 0% to anyone distribute and patch games, ofc they pay their own infrastructure but i'm guessing their calculus works out in their favor.