Steam Releases 2022 Year in Review: Total data downloaded by players reaches 44.7EB
The Steam team launched the annual review function at the end of December 2022. Players can view their most frequently played games, consecutive game days, unlocked achievements, preferred types, etc. in a year. Recently, the Steam team released the 2022 annual review of the platform.
The review summary is roughly divided into four parts:
- Work that was largely driven by Steam Deck
- The customer experience of discovering and playing games
- Tools focused on removing friction and adding value for game developers and publishers
- A data update on how the platform continues to grow.
Steam Deck was officially released in February 2022. It experienced a severe shortage at the beginning, but players’ enthusiasm for buying it is still high. With the increase in production capacity, this problem has been greatly alleviated. The Steam team stated that it will continue to promote the improvement of Proton and SteamOS.
In terms of platform growth data, at the end of October 2022, the number of simultaneous online users on Steam exceeded the 30 million mark, and it was only a year and a half since the number of online users exceeded 20 million for the first time. More online users also mean a greater amount of data downloads. In 2022, the total amount of data downloaded by players reached 44.7EB.
