https://store.steampowered.com/charts/

Peak Online: 37,185,128

Date: 2026-05-19

A new record has been reached. And I feel like Saubnatica 2 and Forza Horizon 6 are partially responsible for this new peak. I don’t see anyone talking or posting about this new logged in users of Steam.

EDIT: Today it just got a new record again! A few hours after I posted this post, lol. To me stats and numbers are interesting. New numbers:

Peak Online: 37,497,703

Date: 2026-05-22

  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 hours ago

    After killing the competition with exclusivity deals and shoehorning itself into physical copies as DRM.

    I know you weren’t born when that happened, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

      • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 hours ago

        Except they kinda did.

        They pay publishers to use Steam as DRM for physical releases.

        If you wanted to play the game on PC, you needed Steam.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          First, this is not what you said earlier, its a different statement. Also… where do you get that Valve pays publishers to use Steam as DRM? And therefore forces them a kind of exclusivity deal? No, Valve does not do that.