{"id":13062,"date":"2025-01-21T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2025-01-01T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T22:40:50","slug":"still-playing-old-games-most-people-are-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13062","title":{"rendered":"Still playing old games? Most other people are too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Valve’s Year In Review for Steam revealed interesting statistics about its player base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 15 percent of Steam players spent their time on games released in 2024. 47 percent of players devoted their time to games from the past 1-7 years (called “recent favorites”), and 37 percent played titles from eight or more years ago (“classics”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While that seems low, it’s actually in line with historical trends. In fact, 2023 was particularly bad with players only spending 9% of time on games released in 2023. In 2022, players spent time on 17% of games released in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ratio for ‘recent favorites’ for 2022 and 2023 were 19 percent and 52 percent, respectively, and ‘classics’ for each year were 62 percent and 38 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/td>Time spent on games released that year<\/td>Recent Favorites (1-7 years old)<\/td>Classics (8+ years old)<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>15%<\/td>47%<\/td>37%<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>9%<\/td>52%<\/td>38%<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>17%<\/td>19%<\/td>62%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n