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Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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On Steamcharts, Counterstrike has been the #1 game on Steam every single day I have EVER looked at this site, for at least 3 years now. This top 10 has basically been the same for years... I don't get it. Do people just not play anything else?

Dota, Rust, PUBG, GTA V, Call of Duty, Apex.... Admittedly, Satisfactory is new to the top 10. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege FINALLY fell out of the top 10, adn so did Destiny 2.

It just feels like it never changes, which is crazy.. what happened?

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[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'm having trouble digging it up, but the person who created Steamspy a number of years ago, before privacy laws made public profiles opt-in and interfered with its ability to collect data, found that the majority of Steam accounts only had a single game in their libraries.

A lot of those are going to be alts people made to evade game/server bans or smurf.

I may or may not have made 10 accounts that only had Garry's Mod on them circa 2010.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That may be true, but you can also see, for instance, that there are a ton of Chinese users who only play Dota 2 or only play PUBG. You'll see the percentage of Simplified Chinese users ebb and flow with a similar cadence to just those two games.