Popular video game digital distribution service Steam has achieved a new milestone, breaking 25 million concurrent users for the first time ever on January 2, 2021. This is another huge milestone for Steam which is owned by Valve.
According to the numbers on SteamDB, on January 2nd of 2021, Steam reached 25.4 million concurrent users for the first time ever, breaking the previous record of 24.8 million concurrent users which was set just a couple of weeks ago. Out of the 25.4 million users, 7.4 million were in-game at the time which is a huge number.
2021 is off to a good start for Steam, peaking at 25.4mil concurrent users. 7.4mil users were in-game at the time.
Previous record of 24.8mil was set just a couple of weeks ago. pic.twitter.com/dnCocNWF3J
— Steam Database (@SteamDB) January 2, 2021
Steam is the most famous online video game distribution platform and enjoys the majority of the market share due to famous Free to play games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 which are both published by Valve, the same company that owns Steam. Steam also has a massive community where people can join in discussions and share their artworks, mods, and other things in the Steam Workshop.
Currently, a massive Steam Winter sale is going on in which players can get several games for big discounts. Valve also put out a new Steam Labs Experiment dubbed ‘Exploring Sales’ for this occasion, which should provide a better browsing experience.
Using the Exploring sales option, players can browse discounted games using genres and themes. Steam explains this feature as below.
New Ways to Browse During the Holidays
Each holiday sale, Steam features thousands of titles on discount. As part of this year’s Autumn Sale we introduced over a dozen genre- and theme-specific sale pages to help players browse and discover our most popular games on discount during the event. We found these themed pages drove more game store page visits during the sale than all but one other Steam store point of discovery – the grid of featured games at the top of the home page.
Given the popularity of these themed pages, we’ve introduced more of them in this year’s Winter Sale, and we’ve added some smarts so we’re able to now list them based on their likely relevance to you.
Genres, Themes, Features, & More
Once you arrive at one of these pages during the Winter Sale, such as this one featuring the most popular Winter Sale Co-Op Games, you’ll discover a number of ways to browse the hundreds of games it features. Tabs offer common sub-genres, themes, or other tags shared by the hundreds of games featured on each page. Sections of these pages in some cases also display titles which all share a common theme such as viewpoint, player support, or additional themes. And because there are so many great games to feature on each of these pages, we’ve also introduced faceted browsing.
Faceted Browsing: Searching while Exploring
Faceted browsing lets you tell Steam what you’re looking for as you browse, by quickly filtering titles along a variety of axes such as visual style, theme, mood, player support, and more. Concepts can be selected across categories to serve as quick AND search operations, while concepts can be selected within categories to serve as quick OR search operations.
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