Yes, not only many people still play the same games for 10 years, but also spend most of their gaming time in them. There's a reason why a new live service game is both a gold mine and also incredibly difficult to stick.
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The games that sit at the top of the player counts are almost always multiplayer competitive games. In a lot of ways, there’s been nearly 0 movement in the space at all since covid. The same games are still right there at the top because no new massively multiplayer game has released to top them. FPS players play CoD, Apex, Fortnite and Pubg, Dota is massive in Asian countries, GTA V has a huge cult following (check out its twitch category).
Satisfactory being top 10 is an outlier rather than the norm, being a single player game.
I agree with the other commenter who said that players of these games consider themselves players of Apex/CoD/Pubg before they consider themselves overall gamers. That’s the case with me now, and I rarely launch anything outside of CoD or Apex as I have little to no interest in single player games.
Satisfactory isn't massively multiplayer but it is coop up to 4 players, been enjoying it with my brother since 1.0 release
CS is like chess. Perfect and timeless. 6000 hours over 12 years of non-stop queueing competitive
*Checkers
Counter Strike Source was like chess if you ask me. In CS GO they added this gambling system, which made the game less attractive for me
gambling? interesting. i just play because I don't know where my mom's money is
CS is extremely popular outside of North America (also in NA). It's basically been played nonstop with an ever growing fanbase since 1998. The rest of the games are all multiplayer titles with competitive ranking systems. Apex and Dota are free.
CS probably has some sort of skin money-laundering bots in it. I would see it more as a financial vector and less of a game if that were true.
Depends on how you look at it. CS is the only thing I’ve been playing after years of gaming and I think it will stay that way due to the simplicity and the familiarity of the game.
Oh? Warframe is finally off the top 10?
Admittedly, it's probably been off it for awhile. I just haven't really been paying attention to top 10s in a long while.
I wouldn't know. I've never played it. It's not really my kind of game
It spent many years around spot 7. It has since fallen off.
Which is kind of funny because that corresponds inversely with the quality of the game lol. The game director changed and they have been killing it every since
I fell off from the game for a number of reasons back when deimos was released. I went back to it to catch up on quests and a lot of original gripes of why I left in the first place were still firmly in place.
These games have infinite replay value and people like them. That's all a top ranking game is. Many have tried to replicate these successes and failed (in recent memory, Concord). There have been a huge number of good games coming out too. But they're not somthing you put 2,000 hours into with your friends.
There'a a big element of the snowball effect too. Big games attract more players than small games. Esports are a lot like normal sports in that regard. People make new sports pretty often but Football, Basketball, Baseball etc have been around for 100+ years so they have large communities and social relevance. If I asked my buds to go out for a match of "whipple stick", my new favorite sport, they'd just laugh at me.
On the other hand, new games CAN become huge if they're built well enough. A few of the top 10 were released less than 10 years ago, which says a lot about how these "main games" DO change over time. I think Deadlock will get up there after a few years of polishing.
because they run on everything and are free
You can play something like dota with people on a very basic computer and okayish connection. You'll always find matches too.
Add Banana too in Top 10 xD.
Circlejerks.
Most of them are good games the others are played by people who only play those games
When I learned about TacticalOps and Infiltration I started to not understand why people keep playing CS while there are superior games out there. Something is wrong with this world.
it's a really good game, and is heavily supported by Valve to keep it good
cheating seems like an issue but i imagine that's always been the case
Is there a way to sort steamcharts by total hours played? Im kinda curious about that stat but i can seem to find a way to sort it on site.
No one has topped them yet.
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