Steam player count has jumped by 23 million in less than a year

October 23, 2018 Steam player count has topped 90 million monthly active users.

Steam now has over 90 million monthly active users, up from 67 million in little over a year. Valve’s client remains one of the most popular places to get digital PC games, and that popularity is expanding worldwide - particularly in places like China, where local law can put heavy restrictions on what players have access to. The latest stats were shared at Melbourne Games Week, and the current stats also include over 47 million daily active users and a new peak concurrent user record of 18.5 million. Those stats are up from 33 million daily and a peak of 14 million concurrents back in August. So what’s changed since GeekWire reported those numbers last year? China, for one thing. According to Asian game industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, Valve’s service has more than 30 million users there. That interest started with Dota 2, but has grown even more over thanks to PUBG sales numbers - as Niko Partners reports (via South China Morning Post), over 15 million copies of the battle royale have sold in China.  

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