The milestone achieved last weekend is exceeded with 10% more concurrent online users.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) keeps many citizens in confinement, which has ended up affecting the number of users who are using entertainment platforms. With Internet connections working in many homes, Steam has also benefited from players' seclusion time. According to the data, the number of concurrent users on the platform has been exceeded by 10%, to exceed the peak of 22 million online players.
The specific figure is 22,678,529 concurrent users, which does not mean that those people were all playing at the time. In fact, the ingame user record has not occurred this weekend, despite having almost exceeded 7 million, according to data published by PC Gamer.
Restrictive measures are expected to continue to be imposed as the virus spreads. Although such provisions have already been made in European countries such as Spain, Italy or France, the United States has not yet closed all non-essential stores, since only the most hit states have decided to confine their citizens. Streaming service companies such as Netflix, Amazon or Apple have reported that they will lower the image quality so as not to saturate the network.
Graphic: Steam DB.
COVID-19, free games and other features
Many are the companies that have offered free titles to make the quarantine period more bearable. Ubisoft has gifted Child of Light and other video games, while Tomb Raider (2013) and Tomb Raider: The Temple of Osiris can be downloaded at no additional charge. On the other hand, in FreeGameTips we publish an article with the most important free PlayStation 4 games on the market.
The coronavirus has also influenced the video game industry, which is why many developers have opted for telecommuting to continue their activity. The GameStop store chain, meanwhile, has backtracked on its intention to keep all of its stores open.
Source | PC Gamer
