It's happened again: Steam has set another new concurrent user record, this time clocking up a staggering 27,1﷽82,165 players earlier today.
According to , of those 27.1 million users, 7.8 million were actively in-game and playing 💃something – which is🌞 also a brand new record for Steam, too.
It's an incredible achievement for Valve's PC platform, not least because many of the p🦂rior records set in 2020 and 2021 occurred during national coronavirus lockdowns across the world.
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Steam's upward trend began in January 2020 when the world began to self-isolate at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. On February 2, Steam's existing record of 18,537,490 users – set in January 2018 – 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:was surpassed, smashinܫg the existing record by an impressive 300,000 to peak at 18,801,944 players.
It's gone on to be broken several times since, including a weekend in March which saw numbers breach 20 million for the first time, and then 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:22 million just a week later. We saw 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:24.7 million users peak in December 2020, and then 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:26.5 million in February 2021.
The latest record – which was❀ se♉t in April 2021 – stood at 26.9 million users.
As for the games we're playing? The titles that have been keeping us busy include CS:GO – which itself has seen a concurrent peak of almost a million players today – as well as Dota 2, New World, Halo Infinite, Team Fortress 2, Rust, Apex Legends, MIR4, GTA 5, and Farming🦩 Simulator 2♍2.
ICYMI, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Halo Infinite – which has yet to release in full and with only a beta version of its multiplayer available to play right now – is already the most-played Xbox Game Studios title of all time on Steam. However, players are already repor𒅌ting that they're encountering c🌞heaters us꧋ing aimbots and wallhacks to cheat their ꧅way to victory.
"Let me turn off cross-play until you guys can get an actual anti-cheat imple༺mented," one player implored t🌌o developer 343 Industries.
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