{"id":12869,"date":"2025-01-02T05:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T02:28:31","slug":"only-15-of-steam-users-are-playing-your-new-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12869","title":{"rendered":"Only 15% of Steam users are playing your new game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Valve&#8217;s Year In Review for Steam revealed that only 15% of Steam players spent their time on games released in 2024. 47% of players devoted their time to games from the past 1-7 years (or &#8220;recent favorites&#8221;), and 37% played titles from eight or more years ago (&#8220;classics&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That 15% is a significant increase over the 9% of playtime spent in 2023 on new games released that year (though it&#8217;s down on the 17% of time folks spent in new games in 2022). So 2024 has actually seen a bit of a bounce back from last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/15-percent-of-steam-users-played-2024-s-game-releases\">https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/15-percent-of-steam-users-played-2024-s-game-releases<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve&#8217;s Year In Review for Steam revealed that only 15% of Steam players spent their time on games released in 2024. 47% of players devoted their time to games from the past 1-7 years (or &#8220;recent favorites&#8221;), and 37% played titles from eight or more years ago (&#8220;classics&#8221;). That 15% is a significant increase over the 9% of playtime spent in 2023 on new games released that year (though it&#8217;s down on the 17% of time folks spent in new&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12869\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3lz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12892,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12869\/revisions\/12892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}