Topic: Interesting Steam stats

[idolminds]

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Data taken from Steamspy, but there is some surprising info in there.

Classic “core gamers” — the ones that play most major hits or jump from indie game to indie game — are relatively rare when compared to overall gaming audience.

In fact, 1% of Steam gamers own 33% of all copies of games on Steam. 20% of Steam gamers own 88% of games. That’s even more than Pareto principle suggests.

So, to be a member of the “1% group” of Steam gamers you have to own 107 games or more. That’s not much considering how Steam is selling games at discount prices and how easy it is to obtain games in bundles.

We’re talking about 1.3M PC gamers that could fall into definition of “core gamer that buys several games per year”. And that’s including discounted games as well.

Of course we could extend it to, I don’t know, “softcore gamers” — the 20% that own 88% games. To be included you’d have to own 4 (FOUR) games or more on Steam — not exactly a huge number, right?

[Xessive]

Interesting.

Although we have to bear in mind the number of people who have multiple accounts as well. I know a few people who multiple Steam accounts; some because they forgot they had one and accidentally created another, and others who specifically want more than one account to play different games on (which is really weird to me). I imagine it's a rare case but I don't think the Steamspy data accounts for that.

[W7RE]

Most of the people I game with on PC (most I met on WoW) don't play that many games. Most of them play one game and rarely anything else. For a while it was WoW with DOTA on the side. Now it's DOTA 2 with Dark Souls on the side. I don't think many of them keep up with recent releases except when one of the tries to get everyone to play a new sandbox game, like they did with H1Z1 and Ark. Though they all quickly went back to the DOTA 2 and Dark Souls pattern. One of them has 2,800 hours logged on DOTA 2, haha.