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Steam broke its concurrent user record twice over the Thanksgiving weekend

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Valve‘s service reached an all-time high of 27,182,165 concurrent players at 9am ET / 2pm GMT on Saturday.
This record was then quickly broken at the same time the following day, when the peak hit 27,384,959.
The record marks the highest number of players logged into Steam at any one time. Of these players, around 7.8 million were flagged as actively playing games at the time.

Pretty cool..
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Masafor

It's a much too high counted ammount because (actively) playing = idlers get counted too.
And concurrent players = people with multiple accounts too.

So in the end the real numbers are much lower.

2 years ago
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C4pM

Probably! Although, I'm not convinced it would be a huge percentage of idlers. And maybe somewhat offset by offline gamers. But perhaps still trending up in all areas.

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Csontzuzo

lets say those extras compensated by those with logged off community feature, as they not count to the live statistics.

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weirdfish

It's a much too high counted ammount

It's the number of current users, it cannot be "too high".

It may not be the same as the number of active users or whatever other metric you may deem more appropriate (for what?), however Valve never claimed that was the case, so no harm no foul.

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Masafor

The user ammount is correct if you count them only as accounts and not as different users.

But no, "actively playing" is something else as "pretend to play because they have a idler program running"^^

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weirdfish

You're shifting the goal posts and then pointing the finger.

Valve did not misrepresent the user count, so any problem lies entirely with your reading or perception.

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Masafor

Yes, thats called "using the brain", when you see numbers and datas that don't reflect the real situation.

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Tzaar

What a pointless hill to die on.

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TheChack

It's all those hentai games, they bring people together.

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adam1224

When they are so close, the distance is negative

2 years ago
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Zelrune

That's pretty neat! Thank you for sharing~

2 years ago
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Csontzuzo

7millions played games at the same time, the other 20millions tried to find 1 playable game among the daily new 100 shovelwares.

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RetroTox

If a man couldn't teach himself how to search and find interesting things in life he's doomed to become an idiot, consuming garbage, chosen for him by somene else. Simply put, man becomes Epicstore user.

2 years ago
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hbarkas

By your logic buying in a supermarket where you can't get rotten meat and decaying fruit makes you an idiot.

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Daud

Wonder if this count invis as well since I'm always invisible in friends list.

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adam1224

That's only the chat - I think it would count you even if you're offline in chat settings. Using Steam in offline mode is the thing that even Valve couldn't count into players.

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