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    Nur 15 % der Zeit aller Steam-Nutzer verbrachten sie mit dem Spielen von Spielen, die im Jahr 2024 veröffentlicht wurden


    Nur 15 % der Zeit aller Steam-Nutzer verbrachten sie mit dem Spielen von Spielen, die im Jahr 2024 veröffentlicht wurden

    https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-15-percent-of-all-steam-users-time-was-spent-playing-games-released-in-2024/

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    2. aubrey_the_gaymer on

      Breaking news: People replay games that they already have.

      Considering 2024 is less than 5% of the time that Steam has existed, 15% of played games is pretty fucking good.

    4. Sudden_Mix9724 on

      if majority of gamers(80%), when u look at steam hardware survey are using sub $300 graphics card, or a $600 GTX 1650 laptop ..they probably cannot afford a $70 AAA game…or even a $50 game..

      unless somebody is buying their favorite game with their saved up money…not many are buying on “release prices”…

      most PPL are waiting for sales/offer prices which likely takes a year or so..
      so PPL will buy a 2024 title probably during 2026 Xmas sale at 40% off price.
      the rest are stuck in only online f2p(with microtransactions )games.

    5. lime_time_war_crime on

      Sounds like game companies needs to invest in creating older games to capture that market

    6. TimedogGAF on

      I bought only 1 game released in 2024 and I still haven’t played it.

    7. chipmunk_supervisor on

      That’s pretty incredible considering all the decades worth of titles that 2024 is competing with.

    8. frolie0 on

      Posted this in the r/gaming thread about this too…

      This isn’t a remotely surprising stat. 99% of people will have far more titles purchased prior to the current year. Then you add on things like DLCs, which are new content, but steam still counts the release date of the base game no doubt.

      Then you have the bits and there’s more prior to 2024 than there was in 2024. And account for what games yoie friends have, again, samw answer. It goes on and on.

      You also have to think about the seasonality of releases, with so many titles released late in the year, of course they’ll be played well into the next year, at least.

    9. lOmaine777 on

      Without providing the corresponding data for previous years, we cannot know if this is good or bad…

    10. Words_Are_Hrad on

      All the people in this comment section have no idea what this stat means… People aren’t going back and playing The Last of Us, Witcher 3, or Dark Souls. People are playing live service games. They are playing CS, DOTA, PUBG, and Apex Legends. >60% of all playtime in games is done in live service titles. And it is very difficult for new live service games to compete with established titles when players have already invested so much time and money in them creating a sunk cost dynamic. New non live service titles absolutely get more playtime than old non live service titles. Games like Black Myth Wukong and Metaphor ReFantazio crush old titles in playtime. This data is being driven overwhelmingly by live service games.

    11. Darkstar197 on

      This article is just gonna further encourage companies to spin up more remasters.

    14. Grumpycatdoge999 on

      New games cost too much and need a nasa computer to get 60fps

    15. 1Steelghost1 on

      Haha like saying 15% of people that drive cars drove a 2024.

      Games that work & people like they keep playing. Also isn’t fortnite like 5-6 years old?

    16. Cronotyr on

      A lot of my time was taken up by Persona 3 Reload, Black Myth Wukong, and Metaphor, so it doesn’t surprise me that mine was like 85% 2024 games

    18. OutlawSundown on

      2024 was kind of a weak year to me beyond that Gamepass has had a lot of the games I wanted to play.

    19. dj_spatial on

      The game I’m playing daily? Starcraft 1998. Bought it a few years ago $8. Hundreds of hours enjoyed since

    20. cnio14 on

      Huh? Less than 15% of games on Steam was released in 2024 so that’s actually a lot.

    21. flux_capacitor3 on

      I’m busy playing the dark souls games on repeat. lol. No time for the new games I’ve purchased.

    22. Orion_2kTC on

      I imagine this ticked up a few points after PoE 2 Early Access released.

    26. Scorpius289 on

      New let’s see how much of that 15% is on actual new games, as opposed to remakes.

    28. marshmallow_metro on

      As someone who plays games on a laptop, I can say it’s because of optimization and price. Even AA and AAA games from 2014-2017 run on 30-60 fps on my Nvidia MX450 graphics card, it has only 2 gb vram and isn’t even meant for gaming. And also all the games I own were bought in sales and cost from $1-$6.

      I bought one modern game (ghost of tsushima) and it took 4 tries to reach the game menu without crashing.

    29. Mindproxy on

      That makes sense since I personally prefer to get older games when they’re on sale for massive discounts instead of playing the latest titles. Plus the sheer number of critically acclaimed games released in the past two years is gonna take a while to get through.

    30. google257 on

      Because there was real magic happening in some video games like 8-10 years ago. This year everything feels like a money grab and games have suffered.

    31. Kanonizator on

      The crippling fear that people have about admitting the real reason is staggering. It’s like all you poor souls live in fear of getting ostracized if you say something the crowd with the purple hair and foaming mouth doesn’t like.

      *”It’s perfectly normal that people don’t play new games any more, it has nothing to do with new games being shitty, nah, Concord and Veilguard and Dustborn are all perfectly fine games, people are just waiting for good discounts.”*

      LOL

    32. chromane on

      >So what do we make of all this? Are people just not buying new games any more? No, that’s probably not the case. In fact, that 15% is a significant increase over the 9% of playtime spent in 2023 on new games released that year (though it’s down on the 17% of time folks spent in new games in 2022).

      So it’s sort of bounced around then?

    33. csky on

      They are pricing the games wrong imo. I never ever buy a game once its out. I have a steam backlog that will outlast me. Why spend now if I can get it at %50 discount 1 year from now.

    34. qwop22 on

      People have massive backlogs and are probably just playing through older games. I rarely buy new releases right when they come out unless it’s something I’m VERY excited for. I have so many games to play through still that I just wait for sales. I just picked up Jedi survivor for like $15.

    35. Graega on

      It takes me a few years to hit AAA game – bugs, patches, the billion DLCs, etc. I’ll let all that settle first, thanks. And really, they’re not going to be anything new or innovative, so unless there’s a big multiplayer scene, what am I missing out on?

    36. redlines4life on

      Wonder how much this has to do with the fact that there were older games that you ’kinda’ wanted to play, but not spend 60-70$ to play, that have since gotten cheaper so now it’s worthwhile.

      Also so many games are just money grabs nowadays and it makes me very sad.

    37. felipe_the_dog on

      I’ve been playing XCom on my newly purchased PS Vita. I’m stuck in 2011 and it rules over here. Some day I’ll get to XCom 2

    38. Dontaskmeforaname on

      No wonder.. janky shit after janky shit. I don’t even pay attention to new releases anymore.

    39. loptr on

      Would be interesting to see how many of the pre-2024 games had new content released during 2024 leading to people playing them.

      For instance I’m an avid fan of The Division 2, but I primarily play the new seasonal content nowadays. So while it is a game from 2019, the content was released in 2024.

      Compared to say playing Borderlands 3 (which I also do) that has the same content as last year and the year before that.

    40. mama_tom on

      I played 5 games that came out this year. They were probably 60% of my playtime. Balatro and Deadlock were probably 50%.

    41. reg0ner on

      Well what year did cs2 release because that’s where most of the users are, like by a mile. If you remove cs2 I bet the 15% turns into like 40%

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