Although lies This year's Black Friday with its numerous promotions and deals almost two weeks behind us. The fight for the favor of customers However, it has probably only just begun, especially in the large online shops. In keeping with the Christmas season, attractive offers are springing up like mushrooms.
But although The Epic Games Store boasts an impressive promotion with free computer gameshe doesn't have the slightest chance against Steam. This proves if nothing else a new historical record.
Who actually owns Steam?
On Steam it is the world's largest digital distribution platform for PC games. However, there is not a big dealer behind it; Developer Valve. Many gaming fans know these primarily because of shooter highlights like Counterattack and Half-life. In 2003, however, the studio built another mainstay with Steam.
It's basically free to use, you just need an account the official client. Current figures show how popular Steam actually is, which even the greatest optimists probably wouldn't have expected at launch.
How successful is Steam?
It has been known for some time that Steam has a huge lead over the competition in terms of form the Epic Games Store Or GOG.com Hat. The current figures make it clear how huge this actually is.
Because how out the statistics from Steamdb.info As can be seen, Steam was recently able to use the brand for the first time 39 million concurrent active users crack. To be precise, on December 8th, 2024 there were 39,205,447 players who were on Steam at the same time.
This is not only an absolutely impressive value in itself, but also also means a historical record. Never before has Steam been able to boast such a high number. The previous record was just over 38 million users and came from September of this year.
Still in August 2024 the best value was just over 37 million. So Steam can in the last four months alone an increase of approximately two million users show.
The numerous free promotions on Steam are likely to play a large part in this positive development. In the past few months, users have been able to access free full versions several times, and many computer games have also been available for significantly cheaper prices. Also current driving forces such as the new Path of Exile 2 Probably contributed to the new record. If the trend continues, it will only be a matter of time before the 40 million mark falls.
Source: Steamdb.info
