Steam: More than 24 million players online this weekend, new record due to coronavirus outbreak

Updated at 06/04/2020 at 03:49 By Lloyd

As a side effect of the population confinement, the platforms dedicated to video games are seeing their attendance explode — as it was the case on March 14 with a new attendance record for Steam.

Steam: More than 24 million players online this weekend, new record due to coronavirus outbreak

Update — April 6

Each week is a record for Steam. With more than 24 million players logged in simultaneously this weekend, the platform set a new record. The numbers continue to grow and it wouldn't be surprising to see the platform surpass 25 million soon.

Steam achieved a record high peak concurrent user count of 24m on Friday.

It hit 20m for the first time on March 15th and has grown each week since.

Steam has continually broken records over the past two months as lockdown and self isolation leads to surge in at home gaming. pic.twitter.com/E874xKABBe
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 4, 2020

Original article

On Saturday, March 14, the Valve platform broke a new attendance record with 19,728,027 people connected simultaneously at around 7:00 AM (PT).

It didn't take long for this new record to be broken as 20,313,476 players were logged in on March 15 at around 7 AM (PT) — about 500,000 more players than the previous day.

Due to the closure of all non-essential businesses and the confinement, Steam has seen its servers overrun by millions of players desperately looking for a change of scenery. No doubt that other platforms will have have the same success.

This isn't likely to stop any time soon, with the upcoming releases of big titles such as DOOM Eternal and Animal Crossing on March 20.

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