Steam has 90 million monthly and 47 million daily s
Valve has released a report summarizing the past year on Steam. We learned, among other things, that the number of monthly s of the service reaches 90 million people.
Valve published a summary of 2018 on Steam. As usual, it included many interesting numbers. We learned that 90 million people use Steam every month, 47 million of whom do it every day.
The current activity record is 18.5 million people logged in simultaneously. It is also impressive that every month 1.6 million s make their first purchase on Steam.
2018 was another year of change for the platform. Among other things, Valve improved content filtering tools and added websites of developers and publishers. The wish list functions were also expanded and additional tools were offered to allow the developers detailed analysis of network traffic associated with their games.
Valve also had to improve its infrastructure so that it could cope with increasing traffic. Last year, Steam delivered 15 exabytes (15 billion gigabytes) of data to s. For comparison, the total Internet traffic in 2003 (the year the service was launched) was about 9.3 exabytes.
It is worth mentioning that the last weeks were full of summaries of various aspects of the service. We got to know which pads are most often used by Steam s.
In addition, yesterday eight most important changes coming to Steam this year.
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- 39% positive on Steam: Stalker Enhanced Editions dissapoint fans with cut content and blurry visuals
- In this regard, Elden Ring leaves Baldur's Gate 3 and Diablo 4 behind. Nearly half of Steam players have put in over 100 hours in the game