Valve started the year off rather nicely by breaking two of their own records recently with users online and users actually gaming.
They have a new all-time peak for concurrent online users as 33,078,963 and 10,284,568 playing games. This is only the second time we've seen over 10 million people in-game, the first being the day before on January 7th but these numbers from January 8th are the new records as shown by SteamDB.
The current top 5 most played games are:
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
- Dota 2.
- Goose Goose Duck.
- PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS.
- Apex Legends.
Goose Goose Duck the social deduction game (that takes a look of inspiration directly from Among Us) being a complete newcomer releasing in October last year, and suddenly seeing the player count rise from late November where it went up like a rocket to see a 24 hour peak of 640,324. It being free to play probably helps a lot, and it runs on Linux with Proton.
This and more was covered in my News Flip #2 video.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: ScytaleSeriously, hats off to Valve. Honestly gained it, fair and square and not by ripping the customers and bullying them. Valve is my company of the decade. And by using Linux 24/7 I'm normally doing a lot to not depend on companies so much, but hey, not in this case.
I'm still on the fence on... are we fanboys? Or do they deserve it? Or, well, maybe just both? :)
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