{"id":66471,"date":"2014-06-30T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=66471"},"modified":"2014-06-30T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T09:00:59","slug":"steam-breaks-its-concurrent-user-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/66471-steam-breaks-its-concurrent-user-record","title":{"rendered":"Steam breaks its concurrent user record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let 29 June 2014\u00a0forever be remembered as the day that Steam passed 8 million concurrent users – pass around the champagne, because the PC master race has once again proven its dedication to the platform.<\/p>\n

According to Steam’s official stats page, the break happened around 23:45 (American time) on 29 June, with much thanks to the Dota 2 and Counter-Strike crowd.<\/p>\n

Dota 2 peaked close to 775,300 players, while CS: Global Offensive saw 163,450 players logging in. Other big games drawing gamers to Steam were Team Fortress 2, Garry’s Mod, Payday 2 and Skyrim.<\/p>\n

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Steam user peaks<\/p><\/div>\n

Steam also has a stats page for total downloads (in Bytes) over the past 7 days. This covers a time when the Steam Summer Sale was going down, and gives\u00a0some indication of how popular the discounted deals were (until Valve releases the official stats, anyway).<\/p>\n

According to extrapolated data, Steam users downloaded over 114PB (that’s Petabytes – so 114 million GB, give or take) over the past 7 days.<\/p>\n

So, how is South Africa faring compared to the rest of the world?<\/p>\n

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Steam global traffic hotspots<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, unsurprisingly, SA hasn’t really made a dent in the global download figure, accounting for only 0.2% of the total – about 174TB<\/strong> over the past 7 days.<\/p>\n

Compared to the global leader – the USA – which has downloaded over 27.5PB (24.1%), we’re barely a drop in the ocean.<\/p>\n

Russia, with 8PB of data downloaded in the last week (7.0% of the total), is the world’s second-biggest Steam game hoarder, with the Germans taking third with 7.5PB (6.6%).<\/p>\n

South Africans were able to download their chunk of gaming glory at an average rate of 1.7Mbps<\/strong> – a far stretch from the US’s 12Mbps average and Russia’s 9.4Mbps.<\/p>\n

Still, even the biggest data munchers can’t quite match South Korea’s average download rate: 36.6Mbps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you’re still keen to grab some discounted games, the Steam Summer Sale is still on – but today is the last day.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, I’m looking to relocate to Seoul.<\/p>\n

More on Steam<\/h3>\n

Steam Summer Sale \u201cAdventure\u201d team game is rigged?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Steam Summer Sale is here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Steam Early Access Games: Valve cautions gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let this forever be remembered as the day the PC master race proved their worth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":66477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,1598,1219,85],"class_list":["post-66471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-headline","tag-record","tag-stats","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66479,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66471\/revisions\/66479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}