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Coronavirus Leads to New Steam Record For Concurrent Players

With the coronavirus officially declared a pandemic, the CDC advised people to stay in-doors and avoid large crowds over the weekend. While an unfortunate number of people opted not to heed that advice, there’s one group that seems to have taken it to heart: gamers. Xbox Live was down earlier...

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According to Valve Corporation, Steam hit a record 20 million players logged-in today, while 6.4 million were playing a game concurrently. It's a staggering number, and it just goes to show that some people were taking the CDC's guidelines a bit more seriously!

Steam's top played game of the day was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The game had more than 1 million players at one point today, setting a new record for Valve's popular title. Things have settled down a bit since then, with just under 400,000 players, as of this writing. Still, it's an amazing accomplishment for the 2012 release.

Thanks mods for the title change

 

[TrainedRage]

Gamers rise up!!!!

 

[Birdo]

China bringing gamers together

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

“Life still rips.”

 

[Faenrir]

Well Steam users keep growing.
My nephew is 17 and wants to get into PC gaming after having a PS4...so it's not only older people either

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Steam has now broken its active player record | VGC

As public urged to stay at home, Steam stats surge for third weekend…

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[Elektro Demon]

Cool. Not surprising tho, what else you're gonna do when you're locked up at home.

 

[JSoup]

Cool. Not surprising tho, what else you're gonna do when you're locked up at home.

 

[IbizaPocholo]