The valve monitored the activity of 1.7 million steam users and found some beautiful interesting figures about playtime and game transactions and shopping.
I Steam’s review of review in 2024 yearsValve said it traced the activity of 1.7 million consumers who were the first buyers and bought one of the 2023’s largest sports. He used big sports to eliminate them, and then we followed this group of new consumers. “
The valve collected the data, which shows that these users did on steam from January 2024 to March 2025. When it turns out, they played a lot of games and spent a lot of money.
“The 1.7 million users who started with the release of 2023 enjoyed more than 141 million hours in additional games, in the upper part of the game,” says the valve, the valve says. “And they were not just playing sports-they were buying new things too. That a group of players spend 20 million on sports transactions in hundreds of other sports.
Valve says the data shows that “Steam is not just a store front-it provides a deep set of game enhancement features to attract and maintain the social community, sports discovery, interactive events, and players who will test new sports in the future.”
If anything, it is also interesting data that proves, despite polarized views about micro -transactions, they become financial drivers in many major sports and will continue.
The former executive acknowledged that Amazon tried and failed to defeat the steam, the company says “dramatically needed to improve” but in the valve shop “the gamers already had a solution”.
