Either I'm experiencing deja vu, or Steam has somehow set another user count record only a month after the last one

PC gaming appears to continue to be as popular as ever, as Steam just hit a new concurrent user count record.I feel like every time I like away from Steam for five minutes, it’s setting a new record for the amount of players it has online at once. Valve started the year off by breaking its concurrent user count record (more than once) when more than 33 million users were online at once. In March that went up all the way to 36 million, then again to 37 million in August, and now, just under an hour ago at the time of writing, Steam managed to hit a concurrent user count record of 38,367,277, a very strong number for the video game distribution platform (via SteamDB). It should be noted that doesn’t mean over 38 million people were playing games at the same time, it’s just how many people we…

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