{"id":475871,"date":"2023-01-10T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=475871"},"modified":"2023-01-10T12:15:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:15:37","slug":"steams-blockbuster-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/475871-steams-blockbuster-weekend.html","title":{"rendered":"Steam’s blockbuster weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve’s popular PC game digital distribution service and launcher application \u2014 Steam \u2014 posted several records for concurrent players this past weekend.<\/p>\n

According to SteamDB<\/strong><\/a>, the service hit 10,080,827 concurrent in-game players for the first time at 14:30 UTC (16:30 SAST) on Saturday, 7 January 2023.<\/p>\n

In addition, the number of players online simultaneously exceeded 32 million for the first time.<\/p>\n

But just a day later, on Sunday, 8 January 2023, it broke these records<\/strong><\/a> again.<\/p>\n

At 13:00 UTC (15:00 SAST), concurrent in-game players peaked at 10,284,568, and concurrent online players breached 33 million.<\/p>\n

The graphs below show the number of concurrent in-game and online Steam users between 3 and 10 January 2023 and the increase in all-time concurrent players between 2004 and 2022.<\/p>\n

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Steam usage has surged since the Covid-19 pandemic started, as more people spent time at home during widespread lockdowns.<\/p>\n

SteamDB is a third-party Steam data tracking website which offers insights into the platform’s player volumes and the popularity of its plethora of titles.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, the most played game on the platform was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), with a peak of over 1.049 million players in the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n

It was followed by Dota 2, with 663,029 players at its peak in the past 24 hours, and Apex Legends, with 355,315 over the same period.<\/p>\n

However, by far the most popular game based on all-time statistics was PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, which had over 3.25 million players at the peak of its popularity.<\/p>\n

Its closest rival was Lost Ark, which had an all-time peak of around 1.33 million in-game players, followed closely by CS:GO with about 1.31 million.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the most played games on Steam based on all-time peak concurrent in-game players.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Building the world’s most popular gaming PC costs R35,950 in South Africa<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PC game distribution service shattered its player number records for two days running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":465827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57208,44776,30286,30812,51155,3602],"class_list":["post-475871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-apex-legends","tag-counter-strike-global-offensive-csgo","tag-dota-2","tag-pc-gaming","tag-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-pubg","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475951,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475871\/revisions\/475951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}