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2023 STEAM Concurrent Players (CCU) Official Watch Thread

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Best of 2023
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    • Best of 2023 is out: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2023

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    • Leica said:
    Glad to see SF6 and Armored Core 6 in Platinum (new releases only)
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    RE4 as well, 3 out the 12 best selling titles that released this year on Steam come from either Capcom or Bandai Namco. Seems like other publishers from Japan should probably pay attention to this.

    Guarabyra said:
    I am really surprised Starfield made Platinum, then again, it was no.10 for the year in the US despite being a day one game pass game.
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    I would expect that a big portion of Steam sales were the Premium Edition at launch, so that's a very high ASP.
     
    salesguy said:
    Destiny 2 something really weird happened, Epic Games Store was added to the data! And it was quite big. Of 822k players, it broke down
    268k ps (32.6%)
    206k steam (25.1%)
    203k xbox (24.7%)
    143k EGS (17.4%)
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    salesguy said:
    this data was for dec 14/15, and it seems that egs was giving away something called destiny 2 legacy collection (shadowkeep, beyond light and Witch Queen, MSRP 59.99) for free on dec 13 only (they are giving away a free game each day). which i didnt know existed. but could have boosted egs numbers a lot i assume. also one of bungie problem is how confusing and expensive it is to catch up on all the d2 content, so apparently they're finally taking a step to address that with this "legacy collection".

    anyways we'll be able to track egs numbers in destiny going forward.

    also first time i recall xbox numbers below steam. but compared to ps xbox is still quite healthy.

    822k overall is not bad, although it probably should be at 1m, but theyre likely artificially boosted by the egs giveaway.
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    Updates since I wanted to track EGS vs Steam in Destiny a little more closely for a bit

    Dec 26/27 ~813k players
    Playstation ~298k (36.6%)
    Xbox ~230k (28.3%)
    Steam ~213k (26.2%)
    Epic Games Store ~71k (8.7%)

    one thing i realized is i'm posting this 12/27 about 4:30 pm. so i guess the data for the 27th might be incomplete and the total players could be influenced by what time i check? It could grow as more players log in later today? Never have thought about or really noticed this before, I thought the data was past days but maybe it updates at some point to current day. shrug.

    Overall 813k continues to be decent, but definitely a recent long term decline has occurred. This should be a holiday break bump too. It's a little hard to parse because the EGS freebie added a lot of players helping bungie with a temporary bump, but can they retain them?

    From the percentages EGS declined by almost half since last check. Not really sure it's EGS fault though, can also be blamed on Destiny for not retaining those new players interest.

    Since last time PS saw a 4% share increase (32.6>36.6) and Xbox 3.6% (24.7>28.3). Likely a result of a lot of new consoles being received for Christmas I assume. Overall the two consoles grew significantly while PC share (Steam+EGS) shrunk. I guess people dont receive discrete PC's (or maybe gfx cards) as Christmas gifts as much as consoles lol.

    anyways so big drop for egs, where will it stabilize?
     
    It's been more than a week(1 week and 2 days~) since the Winter sale began, wanted to do another snapshot of games for some of the titles from last week and see what kind of legs or not they're having during this sale.


    Last Week/This Week
    #1     BG3 / #1 / No Surprise here
    #2 Steam Deck / #2 / Same here
    #3 Elden Ring / #8 / I imagine a lot of folks quickly snagged the newest lowest price.
    #4 CP2077 / #6 / As usual, everytime CP2077 goes on sale, it remains fairly high throughout.
    #5 Lethal Company / #5 / Incredibly consistent, I really wonder just how many copies this game has sold so far.
    #7 EAFC24 / #9 /
    #9 HL / #11 /

    #19 Persona 5 Royal / #48 / Very long game and most of the folks buying it would try to get it as fast possible.

    #23 Sekiro GotY Edition / #34 /
    #25 Lies of P / #47 / Kinda wished this was holding better, but it's a fairly hard game.
    #26 Remnant II / #43 /

    #30 RE4R / #29 / Yeah that checks out, pretty short game that people can just buy at any time during the sale.
    #37 Diablo 4 / #44 / Diablo 4 doing the same-ish each sales, 2024 and its content will be very important for this game's future success.

    #42 God of War / #40 / Incredible staying power for this game at this 50% off price point. Especially considering this game started its sales on Dec 14 and not the 21th.
    #45 War40k Rogue Trader / #66 / Staying fairly high week on week for a game that's not on sales.


    #51 Skyrim / #53 / Eternal game continues to do its thing.
    #52 Mortal Kombat 1 / #84 /
    #56 Divinity: Original Sin 2 / Out of the Top 100(#109) /
    #58     Starfield / Out of the Top 100(#113) / Not very surprising here considering its continued Steam reception.

    #63 Spider-Man Remastered / #83 /
    #69 TLoU Part I / #93 /


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    BG3 vs Starfield CCU Differential from Dec 27th EU and NA Peak times

    BG3 EU Peak : 221,835
    Starfield EU Peak : 16,868

    16,868*13=219,284

    BG3 NA Peak : 202,247
    Starfield NA Peak : 13,179

    13,179*15=197,685

    So BG3 now managed to widen the gap even further and hit x13 during EU and x15 during NA.
    No surprise, first time discount during the holidays for BG will do that, even something as low as 10% off.
     
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    Guarabyra said:
    This sale(and holidays probably) had a big effect on BG3's CCU numbers, damn. Hasn't had a peak under 200k since tuesday and even hit 252k today.
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    Yes, big numbers. I'll have more to say on thatwhen the numbers for today settle for EU+NA this evening.

    But another game which is doing big numbers right now is Monster Hunter: World.
    The game has been on sale at 67% discount(lowest ever) and many people are buying the game.
    MHW is currently #13 on the Global Top Sellers List, having greater holiday legs many other big titles even though this discount has been operational since Dec 7th.

    Game has had daily peak over 100k since Dec 22th and today hit a 129k peak.
     
    Guarabyra said:
    I think MHW was in the 20s last week, so it's been climbing up the charts. MH Wilds is going to be absolutely massive unless a disaster happens.
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    Week of Dec 5th - #19
    Week of Dec 12th - #21
    Week of Dec 19th - #19

    This week will probably be even higher.
    Considering the low price of the game, that's a lot of new copies being sold for a game that released on Steam back on August 8 2018.
    The game always does decent every quarterly earnings report, but with this boost in December, would not be surprised to see a big jump for the next one. All in all, stonks are still strong for Capcom's best selling game of all time.

    I agree with you MH Wilds is set to have a monstrous launch provided the quality is there.
    It is going to be Capcom's most important release in many years, probably till the next one lmao.
    Monster Hunter franchise is coming for that franchise record copies sold that RE has had since forever :ROFLMAO:


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    BG3 vs Starfield Peak CCU Differential for Dec 30th

    EU Peak:
    BG3: 258,771
    Starfield: 18,281

    18,281*14=255,934

    NA Peak:
    BG3: 299,081
    Starfield: 14,087

    14,087*16=225,392

    Increase of x1 for EU peak(now x14) and increase of x1 for NA(now x16) peak since last time I did this(this was last Thursday).


    Also, today's 258,771 Daily CCU peak for BG3 narrowly goes past Sunday October the 15th which had a daily CCU peak of 258,655. You have to go back to the Sunday before that(October 8th) for the last time a day was higher than this at 294,146.
    This one is pretty safe. Even if tomorrow sees another increase, it won't be nearly enough to get anywhere close to that. Besides, considering it's the 31st, it's not even a guarantee it goes higher than today's numbers.

    So many people are playing BG3 at the same time nearly 5 months after release.
     
    Guarabyra said:
    PUBG has been no.1 for a couple of days now(ew), but it wasn't enough to take the week.
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    China(And South Korea) top tier Steam/PC markets in the world.
    BG3 is #1(Top 3) in most countries on the global list but just these two(and a few other Asian markets) puts it at #1. Obviously, this is near the end of the Holiday sales so those #1 positions in the west for BG3 are not as revenue generating, but still.



    MHW Global Steam Revenue
    Week of Dec 5th - #19
    Week of Dec 12th - #21
    Week of Dec 19th - #19
    Week of Dec 26th - #19

    Very consistent performance for the game. But also, it's doing even better relative to the competition in the last few days. CCU peak for today hit 138,148. The last time the game had a higher daily player count was on July 9th 2020 at 144,376.

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    BG3 managed to hit a daily CCU peak of 292,593 yesterday which is not quite the 294,146 that the game achieved on Sunday October 2th. Still very high, to put this in perspective, CP2077 CCU peak on the Sunday of its Expansion release was 274,526.
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    China(And South Korea) top tier Steam/PC markets in the world.
    BG3 is #1(Top 3) in most countries on the global list but just these two(and a few other Asian markets) puts it at #1. Obviously, this is near the end of the Holiday sales so those #1 positions in the west for BG3 are not as revenue generating, but still.
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    Real shame how popular gaas garbage titles are over there :/

    I wonder if BG3 will be able to beat that 292k this sunday, holidays are weird haha
     
    Guarabyra said:
    Real shame how popular gaas garbage titles are over there :/
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    Hating on multiplayer titles, you just hate fun. I have played thousand of hours of great games for zero dollaroos, I can't be complaining.

    Guarabyra said:
    I wonder if BG3 will be able to beat that 292k this sunday, holidays are weird haha
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    I don't know, but anyhow, the 292k number is the number to beat currently as of Jan 1st 2024 when it comes to highest daily CCU for a RPG. I haven't checked what's coming out in 2024 to see how long that will last.

    That reminds me, we need a new thread and this one needs a couple more updates for the last part of the year.
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    Hating on multiplayer titles, you just hate fun. I have played thousand of hours of great games for zero dollaroos, I can't be complaining.



    I don't know, but anyhow, the 292k number is the number to beat currently as of Jan 1st 2024 when it comes to highest daily CCU for a RPG. I haven't checked what's coming out in 2024 to see how long that will last.

    That reminds me, we need a new thread and this one needs a couple more updates for the last part of the year.
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    Yep indeed.

    Tagging @AshenOne so you can discuss how to proceed 😉
     
    baldurs gate 3 beating the new oled-ified steam deck already doesnt bode well for that hardware. especially since iirc these charts are revenue based and oled deck starts at $550 or ~10x the price of bg3.
     
    steam hardware survey for December 2023 - not much of interest

    GPUs - barely any movement
    • Nvidia dropped to 74.80%
    • AMD dropped to 15.96%
    • Intel stayed the same at 8.15%
    • Other increased to 1.09%
    CPUs - barely any movement
    • Intel increased to 65.64%
    • AMD decreased to 34.36%
    Language
    • English increased to 36.92% (+0.90%)
    • Simplified Chinese decreased to 25.32% (-0.64%)
    • Russian decreased to 9.43% (-0.55%)
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    Hating on multiplayer titles, you just hate fun. I have played thousand of hours of great games for zero dollaroos, I can't be complaining.
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    I like MP games, just hate the business model(battle passes etc).

    Evilnemesis8 said:
    I don't know, but anyhow, the 292k number is the number to beat currently as of Jan 1st 2024 when it comes to highest daily CCU for a RPG. I haven't checked what's coming out in 2024 to see how long that will last.
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    Crazy to think that BG3 came out five months ago and is soundly beating The Finals(dec release and mp) in player count.
     
    Guarabyra said:
    I like MP games, just hate the business model(battle passes etc).
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    I don't know, the fact that I'm able to play games for free for years because other people want to buy dumb skins is kinda a positive for me.

    Guarabyra said:
    Crazy to think that BG3 came out five months ago and is soundly beating The Finals(dec release and mp) in player count.
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    The Finals has its own issues, it's why the game has a 73% positive steamdb rating.
    But BG3 daily numbers is beating a lot of the bigger GaaS games, besides the trio of PUBG/CS:GO and DotA 2 of course, but very few games even manage to beat them even for a day so that's not surprising.


    Also Steam Awards 2023 just concluded and Steam users did a bit of trolling on certain categories it seems :

    store.steampowered.com

    The Steam Awards

    Vote for the 2023 Steam Award nominees during the Winter Sale starting on December 21st at 10am Pacific.
    store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

    Labor of Love category is Steam Users saying "Please Rockstar, put GTA VI on Steam Day 1".

    Starfield winning the "Most Innovative Gameplay" award is staight up trolling, but then you look at the competition and realize, people just voted a bunch of random stuff.
    Two niche games, a Polish Simulation game and Remnant 2.
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    I don't know, the fact that I'm able to play games for free for years because other people want to buy dumb skins is kinda a positive for me.
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    Well, you got a point there 🤣

    Evilnemesis8 said:
    The Finals has its own issues, it's why the game has a 73% positive steamdb rating.
    But BG3 daily numbers is beating a lot of the bigger GaaS games, besides the trio of PUBG/CS:GO and DotA 2 of course, but very few games even manage to beat them even for a day so that's not surprising.


    Also Steam Awards 2023 just concluded and Steam users did a bit of trolling on certain categories it seems :

    store.steampowered.com

    The Steam Awards

    Vote for the 2023 Steam Award nominees during the Winter Sale starting on December 21st at 10am Pacific.
    store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

    Labor of Love category is Steam Users saying "Please Rockstar, put GTA VI on Steam Day 1".

    Starfield winning the "Most Innovative Gameplay" award is staight up trolling, but then you look at the competition and realize, people just voted a bunch of random stuff.
    Two niche games, a Polish Simulation game and Remnant 2.
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    RDR2 winning Labor of Love is really insulting to devs like CD Projekt who actually put in work on their games this year and the worst part is that R* won't care :(
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    Also Steam Awards 2023 just concluded and Steam users did a bit of trolling on certain categories it seems :

    store.steampowered.com

    The Steam Awards

    Vote for the 2023 Steam Award nominees during the Winter Sale starting on December 21st at 10am Pacific.
    store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

    Labor of Love category is Steam Users saying "Please Rockstar, put GTA VI on Steam Day 1".

    Starfield winning the "Most Innovative Gameplay" award is staight up trolling, but then you look at the competition and realize, people just voted a bunch of random stuff.
    Two niche games, a Polish Simulation game and Remnant 2.
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    Yep. Definitely looks like troll voting
     
    hubertuss03 said:
    Yep. Definitely looks like troll voting
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    I think Starfield is less of a troll vote tbh if you look at the other 4 games that made the final list. Starfield was simply the most recognizable of all the titles for the casual voters who didn't play any of the games nominated.

    RDR2 is either straight trolling or nobody reads the Labour of Love award and what it means and users probably thought it means something like "Yeah, lots of passion went into creating this game".

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    MHW continues to rise in peak daily CCU count, today it managed to hit 144,195 which is just a couple hundred shy of the last highest CCU on July 9th 2020 which was 144,376.

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    BG3 vs Starfield Differential for the Jan 2th 2024

    Peak EU Times
    BG3: 237,255
    Starfield: 14,900

    14,900*15=223,500

    Peak NA Times
    BG3: 221,222
    Starfield: 12,237

    12,237*18=220,266

    BG3 played by x15 more people on Steam compare to Starfield for peak EU time, and x18 for NA.
    That's a growth of x1 for EU and x2 since the last time I did this(Dec 30th).



     
    master94ga said:
    Interesting:
    gameinfinitus.com

    Starfield Is The Most Played RPG Of 2023 Despite Baldur's Gate 3 Being The Most Acclaimed

    Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield is the most played RPG of the year 2023 despite Larian Studios' Baldur's Gate 3 being the most acclaimed.
    gameinfinitus.com gameinfinitus.com

    "Players have spent a total of 452,556,984 hours in Baldur’s Gate 3, while a total of 534,823,944 hours have been spent in Starfield."

    baldurs-gate-3-stats.jpg

    starfield-stats.jpg
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    Unlike on Steam, Starfield was and still is popular on Xbox.
     
    Winter Memories Launch CCU Peak - 12,403
    Steam Tags for the game : Sexual Content, Hentai, Mature, Nudity, RPG
    Basically it's porn dating sim, man these kind of games are really popular in Asia 💀

    Football Manager 2024 new CCU Peak Record - 89,038
    Football Rising or something.

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    Also there's a new Portal 2 mod named Portal: Revolution that has a current CCU Peak of 6,743(and rising)
    It has a 94% positive rating with over a thousand reviews, so seems like it's quality enough.

    Mod Description:
    The Portal Mod you've been waiting for. Delve into a new story with original characters, spanning over 8 hours of gameplay and featuring over 40 new challenging test chambers which make use of new mechanics.
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    So if you've got Portal 2 you can just download this for free and maybe have some more fun.


    Edit: Steam CCU broken 33,675,229
     
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    Evilnemesis8 said:
    Winter Memories Launch CCU Peak - 12,403
    Steam Tags for the game : Sexual Content, Hentai, Mature, Nudity, RPG
    Basically it's porn dating sim, man these kind of games are really popular in Asia 💀
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    The screenshots on the steam page are hilarious, every character in that game will have back problems by 40.
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    Also, today's 258,771 Daily CCU peak for BG3 narrowly goes past Sunday October the 15th which had a daily CCU peak of 258,655. You have to go back to the Sunday before that(October 8th) for the last time a day was higher than this at 294,146.
    This one is pretty safe. Even if tomorrow sees another increase, it won't be nearly enough to get anywhere close to that. Besides, considering it's the 31st, it's not even a guarantee it goes higher than today's numbers.

    So many people are playing BG3 at the same time nearly 5 months after release.
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    Peaked at 297,492 today. Couldn't even crack 300k what a bomba
     
    Nvidia dropped some new trailers and DLSS and RT announcements

    nvidia-geforce-rtx-ces-2024-announcing-new-rtx-dlss-games.jpg


    notables
    • Horizon 2 getting DLSS 3, just a 2024 release date
    • Dragon's Dogma 2 getting DLSS 3 and ray tracing
    • Yakuza games are getting DLSS 3 after being FSR exclusive
    • RTX Remix coming to beta on Jan 22, wouldn't be surprised to see an uptick in old games when RT mods are released.
    • new GPUS announced
    NVIDIA-RTX-40-SUPER-PRICING-1.jpg


     
    ILikeFeet said:
    notables
    • Horizon 2 getting DLSS 3, just a 2024 release date
    • RTX Remix coming to beta on Jan 22, wouldn't be surprised to see an uptick in old games when RT mods are released.
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    Horizon 2 already has a tentative release date of "Early 2024" Probably Q1 or early Q2.
    Always fun to check out the RTX remix stuff released by Valve.

    Although I doubt they're working on any new game projects that would use every top of the line rendering features.
    Unless they're working on Half-Life 3 in a non-VR capacity. But that's massive hopium, of course.
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    Horizon 2 already has a tentative release date of "Early 2024" Probably Q1 or early Q2.
    Always fun to check out the RTX remix stuff released by Valve.

    Although I doubt they're working on any new game projects that would use every top of the line rendering features.
    Unless they're working on Half-Life 3 in a non-VR capacity. But that's massive hopium, of course.
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    this isn't by valve, but sanctioned by them. this is made by a mod team
     
    Evilnemesis8 said:
    I can give it a shot, @AshenOne's template looks good to me so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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    Its not a very extensive template tbh, if you want you can do better or however you like. As you all can see I ended up losing interest in the CCU thing as the year went on 😅 so I am not in contention for the next year.
     
    AshenOne said:
    Its not a very extensive template tbh, if you want you can do better or however you like. As you all can see I ended up losing interest in the CCU thing as the year went on 😅 so I am not in contention for the next year.
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    The reason I say that is I've never made a thread and also I suck at the whole forum thing(tables and anything that isn't just words) so just having a base which gives me a basic outline helps me not having to come up with much.

    @Lelouch0612
    Anyhow, I just want to say I'm currently doing a little recap of 2023 and then working on the releases coming soon in 2024.
     
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