Steam achieves a new record with almost 20 million simultaneous players

The platform has not stopped expanding its catalogue and attracting users since it was launched in 2003.

According to official statistics, Steam has today gathered a whopping 19,728,027 players at the same time. A figure that represents a new record for the platform, growing since it was released back in 2003. As a contribution to this, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been one of the most users has attracted its games, followed by Dota 2 and PUBG.

Perhaps motivated by the coronavirus crisis, there are already numerous online videogames throughout the world that are offering historical data these days. If yesterday we highlighted that Fortnite had collapsed Italian servers or that Call of Duty: Warzone exceeded 15 million, now it is the turn of other video games long established on the favourite platform of PC gamers.

The aforementioned shooter, CS: GO, surpassed one million concurrent players. For its part, the MOBA was made with 694,829. In addition to PUBG, Rainbow Six Siege and Grand Theft Auto 5 have contributed to reaching the Steam record and it is very likely that over the next few days, the line will continue to increase, surpassing up to 20,000,000 simultaneous players.

As a consequence of this success, the platform has been adapting its design and improving it for a long time to increase the experience of the players, who not only use it for their online games or their adventures in single-player titles but also as a social network capable of moving money around. trading cards and derivatives. Recently the information about the redesign of the personal profiles of each user came out and it will be necessary to see what new changes they have planned soon.

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