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While many locations around the world have loosened regulations in the contempo months of the COVID-xix pandemic, the spread of the Omicron variant has given legitimate concern to the public nearly leaving the firm. As the pandemic continues, the era of staying indoors to play video games doesn't seem to exist disappearing anytime soon. In fact, yesterday's Steam statistics only signal that role player counts keep to rising into the new year.

According to SteamDB, yesterday reached a pinnacle of 27,942,036 simultaneous users logged into Steam. This signals a new record for Valve's PC storefront, with the previous record coming in at 27,384,959 accounts this past Nov. Prior to that, the 26 million bulwark was broken before the same twelvemonth. Of the nearly 28 one thousand thousand logged in users, 8,219,950 people were actively playing a game, which is still a pregnant chunk of gaming.

This steady level of growth is good news for PC players. In the past several years, nosotros've seen traditionally panel sectional titles come to PC either day and date with consoles or some time later. In some cases, Japanese studios even make PC ports exclusively for Western territories. With such a steadily ascent install base of operations, PC players should wait more than studios to consider the platform in evolution.