[Update] Steam Hitting 17.5 1000000 Concurrent Users Yesterday—Its Best Twenty-Four Hours Ever

First fourth dimension user count has topped 17 million.

2017 has been a bumper twelvemonth for Steam. In April, Valve revealed that the platform was peaking at an average of fourteen 1000000 concurrent users per day, which seemed to me similar an incomprehensibly large number. But it looks puny inward comparing to the numbers it's pulling inward nowadays.
In September it hitting xv million, inward Oct sixteen million, in addition to yesterday it smashed through the 17 1000000 mark, reaching a high of 17,686,886 players logged on at once. Crikey. It peaked at 6.9 1000000 players inward game, rather than but using the Steam client.

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Presumably Black Friday has something to produce amongst that, in addition to you lot won't endure surprised to listen that the meteoric rising of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was a large help. With most three 1000000 concurrent players yesterday, it made upward a large chunk of the numbers. It won't endure long until PUBG breaks through that three 1000000 score for the starting fourth dimension time. That's remarkable considering that inward September everyone was making impressed noises when it broke the tape for concurrent Steam users at 1.3 million.
For Steam, today wasn't quite in addition to therefore massive, but it however broke through the 17.5 1000000 mark. It volition probable choke downwards afterwards the weekend (weekdays are naturally quieter) but it wouldn't surprise me if it reaches eighteen 1000000 inside the adjacent few weeks.
Thanks, PCGamesN, in addition to SteamDB for the graph.

Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/steam-hit-175-million-concurrent-users-yesterdayits-best-day-ever/