{"id":3160,"date":"2017-01-09T20:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2017-01-09T20:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:18:24","slug":"steam-hits-new-record-14-million-concurrent-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3160","title":{"rendered":"Steam hits new record at 14 million concurrent users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam\u00a0hit a new landmark this Sunday, crossing 14 million concurrent users for the first time in its existence. It peaked at 14.2 million gamers shortly after the wrap up of the annual winter sale. Plenty of excess purchases needed to be played, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the time of the peak,\u00a0<em>Dota 2<\/em> was the most played game with 951,942 users followed by <em>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/em>\u00a0at 675,195 and <em>Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>\u00a0at 116,230 users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steam has just hit a new record of (over) 14 million concurrent users. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D6WDHbz0B4\">https:\/\/t.co\/D6WDHbz0B4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SteamDB (@SteamDB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteamDB\/status\/817759041229352960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rest assured that Steam is bigger than ever, and with the massive number of excess games bought through the Steam sale, many people want to be playing them on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>However, I\u2019m also going to give Mother Nature a little nod for helping this record be set. This past weekend, a powerful snowstorm slammed into the east coast of America, leaving 73 million people digging themselves out of snow drifts. Since nobody wants to deal with that on a Sunday, it\u2019s easy to say that a good many people would rather stay inside and enjoy a nice video game instead.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stardew Valley<\/em>, anyone? I miss the spring already.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteamDB\/status\/817759041229352960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TWITTER<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam\u00a0hit a new landmark this Sunday, crossing 14 million concurrent users for the first time in its existence. It peaked at 14.2 million gamers shortly after the wrap up of the annual winter sale. Plenty of excess purchases needed to be played, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}