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Only 15% of all Steam users' time was spent playing games released in 2024 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Headline says 'only', but the article says that's actually an increase from last year.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 5 days ago (2 children)

of course it is; 0% of players in 2023 played games released in 2024.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I played like 20 hrs of satisfactory last year lol.

However the joke was good so imma let it slide.

This time.

/s

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well technically with early access games, it would be >0%. Although they didn't know that back in 2023...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So we had time travel all this time huh? Excuse me, I'm gonna go play a game from 2723 >!Star Citizen!<

[–] RogueBanana 2 points 4 days ago

Bold of you to assume that's gonna get released, let alone that early

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Hell, I'm surprised it is over 10% with how many of the most popular games have been around for years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Even one of the biggest releases of this year was a DLC to Elden Ring, which means the actual game is still a few years old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

My guess is that Palworld and Helldivers 2 carried a good chunk of that time. I was going to mention Factorio Space Age, but it would just track time for base game. Satisfactory has been in early access for a long time, but officially released 1.0 this year as well, I wonder how that'd count.