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Re:Games don't need venture capitalism by orbital-decay on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:39AM (#39086665)
> the all-time concurrent user (CCU) record on Steam was just claimed by Palworld

Was it? PUBG had > 3.2 millions concurrent players at the peak, and it's about 1.3M for Palworld. Sure it's growing faster but it's still nowhere near that.

Re:Games don't need venture capitalism by kyriefh on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:51AM (#39086740)
you're correct, this was a basic error on my part - it's #5 all time (https://steamdb.info/charts/?sort=peak). apologies / thanks for the catch, and i've fixed the text
Re:Games don't need venture capitalism by tranceylc on Monday January 22, 2024 @01:41AM (#39086978)
Insane that the gap between #1 and #2 is almost double.