Valve summed up the results of 2019 in Steam, recalling all the major updates and new features of the store, and also shared plans for 2023. The full post can be read on the link, and below we have collected all the most important.
2019 Steam Results
- 95 million active users per month;
- Nearly 21 billion simulated hours;
- More successful new products and an increase in average earnings for the released game;
- The most successful sale;
- Steam Labs brought 2.7 billion impressions, 57 million views and 6.1 million additions to the wish list for more than 29 thousand games;
- Thanks to innovations, users switched to separate pages with additional content more than 121 million times;
- Some little-known games that were included in the monthly lists of “Best Steam New Products” observed an increase of 50% in the number of additions to the wish list;
- Systems that help deal with “off-topic review attacks” identified 44 such cases;
- The Steam chat mobile app has been downloaded over a million times (1/3 on iOS, 2/3 on Android). During the winter sale, more than 6.6 million stickers were sent and 1.1 million chat effects applied;
- Steam Workshop has downloaded 4.3 million products;
- Events and announcements have been shown to players more than 8 billion times. Of these, more than 5 billion are in the new library;
- Offers to write or revise your review of the game led to an increase in the number of reviews from 17 thousand to 70 thousand reviews per day;
- In November and December alone, 3.7 million players took advantage of Remote Play and 2.3 million took advantage of Remote Play Together;
- The number of games supporting Steam Play for Linux has grown from 3,400 to 6,500.
2020 plans
- Own analysis of data on games on Steam and the general state of the platform with the results through several blog entries;
- More complete support for game soundtracks;
- Steam Trust technology, or trust factor used in CS: GO, will be available to all developers;
- Plans for the development of the Steam Internet Cafe program, which is used by more than 8000 sites, so that it operates in schools and libraries;
- A few very secret experiments in the Steam Lab and plans to release some features in the public domain;
- Version 2.0 will make SteamVR even more user friendly;
- New sections of the store where users will see the most relevant content;
- Updating the Steam mobile application will add more login methods and secure user accounts;
- New ways to reward users for participating in sales;
- Plans to improve Steam TV, chat, library, store, and other available features.
