Peak online Steam once again through the ceiling

A year ago, news about personal Steam records on the number of simultaneous users in the Network have been rare, and now it can be heard with surprising regularity. To take the bar of 25.4 million people, the store, Valve took three weeks.

On ResetEra marked all (or almost all) points of growth peak online since 2012. For nine years, the number of simultaneous users increased by more than 20 million:

• January 2012 — $ 5 million.
• January 2013 — 6.6 million.
• December 2013 — 7 million.
• June 2014- $ 8 million.
• March 2015 — 9 million.
• June 2015 — 10 million.
• November 2015 — 13.4 million.
• January 2017 — 14 million.
• 16 Sep 2017 15 million.
• 25 Dec 2017 16.2 million.
• January 2018 — 18 million.
• 14 Jan 2018 — 18 537 490.
• February 2, 2020 — 18 801 944.
• February 9, 2020 — 19.1 million.
• 15 Mar 2020 20.3 million.
• 16 March 2020 — 20 313 451.
• March 20, 2020 is 21.1 million.
• 21 March 2020, 22 million.
• April 2020 — 24.54 million.
• 12 December 2020 — 24 776 635.
• January 2, 2021-St — 25 413 392.

Last time in the hands of service play mainly pandemic coronavirus, as well as major releases like Cyberpunk 2077 and operations Broken Fang for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

2021 is off to a good start for Steam, peaking at 25.4 mil concurrent users. 7.4 mil users were in-game at the time.

Previous record of 24.8 mil was set just a couple of weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/dnCocNWF3J

— Steam Database (@SteamDB) January 2, 2021

By the way, the creation of CD Projekt RED every week since the publication heads the list the most sold goods on Steam. Last week was no exception:

1. Cyberpunk 2077.
2. Sea of Thieves.
3. Index Valve’s VR Kit.
4. Rust.
5. Hades.

The circulation is not known, however, according to official information, during the first 10 days in the asset game based on refunds was more than 13 million copies, including 8 million on pre-order.

#SteamTopSellers for week ending 3 January 2021:

#1 — Cyberpunk 2077
#2 — Sea of Thieves
#3 — Valve Index VR Kit
#4 — Rust
#5 — Hadeshttps://t.co/b4mx2F217c

— Steam Database (@SteamDB) January 3, 2021