Valve’s Steam digital distribution service has set a new record for the number of users online at the same time. dead against the backdrop of the start of a large-scale summer sale.
The previous record was set during the spring sale in March, when there were more than 36.3 million active users at the same time. However, on June 30 at 17:00 Moscow time, the peak number of Steam users reached 36,924,678 people.
In addition, the record for the number of players playing the game simultaneously was updated; according to the SteamDB service, the figure reached 11,711,482 people.
The most popular games during the period when the Steam record was broken were Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Elden Ring, Banana, Apex Legends, Naraka: Bladepoint, GTA V and Team Fortress 2.
It is assumed that the main factor in Steam reaching its next popularity record is the summer sale, which started on June 27 and will last until July 11.
Steam is the most popular distribution service for digital copies of computer games.
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