Monday, December 9th 2024
Steam Sets New Record With Over 39 Million Concurrent Players, Some New Games Doing Well
Steam has set a new record of over 39 million concurrent players, breaking its earlier record of over 38 million set back in September. Some of the recently launched games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Marvel Rivals, and Path of Exile 2 are doing quite well.
As spotted by DSOGaming, the newest Steam record for concurrent players is set at 39,205,447. It took around three months to break the previous record of over 38 million concurrent players set back in September. When it comes to the list of most played games in the last 24 hours, Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 are still holding the top two places, but some recently launched games are also doing quite well.
Path of Exile 2 from Grinding Gear Games took third place, with an all-time peak of over 500k players. This does not come as a surprise considering that players have even managed to overwhelm the servers. Path of Exile 2 is currently also the top seller on Steam. Marvel Rivals also managed to get to the fourth place and this free-to-play game managed to get over 450k concurrent players. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Delta Force, and Baldur's Gate 3 are also on the list, getting a lot of attention on Steam.
Sources:
Steam, DSOGaming
As spotted by DSOGaming, the newest Steam record for concurrent players is set at 39,205,447. It took around three months to break the previous record of over 38 million concurrent players set back in September. When it comes to the list of most played games in the last 24 hours, Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 are still holding the top two places, but some recently launched games are also doing quite well.
36 Comments on Steam Sets New Record With Over 39 Million Concurrent Players, Some New Games Doing Well
(edit: PoE2)is not actually f2p right now($30, with $30 equivalent of in game microtransaction $), so it's numbers are a bit more surprising. I myself was one of the 578,000 people playing Path of Exile over the weekend, playing what frankly was entirely too much. Great game already, looking forward to more classes, skills and the last 3 chapters of the campaign set to release throughout 2025.
No.Edit: Seems to be the case. It's not needed on Linux and the Steam page doesn't state it as it should.
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If you are a Battlefield fan or like FPS gaming I highly recommend Delta Force.
Just the two notables off the top of my head:
- The ability to create multiple and new install directories and game detection in those directories (Epic store can't detect already installed games without weird work-arounds).
- For those of us that are older and have huge game catalogues, the ability to ignore games, and within that feature, to indicate different platforms or straight ignore them(to better serve as an algorithm for games you like/don't like).
I desperately wish that other storefronts would add an ignore feature so I could ignore the 800+ games I already own on Steam, Epic, GoG, etc. I want to see games I don't already own or am not interested in. I might frequent them more often if they had an ignore feature.Besides the behavior would be retarded even for Windows. Does it ask for admin privileges to install that?
No, the reason steam is successful is because they are the only one's that have approached making a platform from the perspective of "how can we make this better" instead of "how can we make money". Not to say Valve is flawless of course, they are just the only one's actually trying. The rest are just trying to cash in.
Feel like we've heard that every console cycle.
Who has the highest on steam i wonder?