Steam: A new concurrent user record was set over the weekend

10 Jan 2017

Steve Wright

Steam has just broken its record the number of concurrent users on the service.

This past weekend, on 8 January, there were exactly 14,370,167 users using the PC gaming platform. This has broken Steam’s past record, set on 3 January 2016, of 12.3 million users.

As to be expected, Dota 2 proved the most popular game at the time, with 849,970 peak concurrent users. Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto V and Team Fortress also posted up big numbers.

Were you adding to the concurrent player count on 8 January?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.