Steam's new weekly sales charts could change how we talk about PC games (or how we argue about them, at least).
Steam already had a top sellers list long before this—it's a category on the front page of the store—but the presentation of these new charts and the fact that they're archived each week could multiply their power. Fixating on player counts is already a, and I can't imagine this new Billboard-style chart will go unexploited by people who are trying to prove that one game is better, deader, or more profit-driven than another.
And one minor note about the existing top sellers list: It's apparently been using a different ranking system. In, Valve said that the top sellers store category will start using the"new method of calculating revenue" devised for these Steam Charts reports. Another small-but-interesting change is the new option to sort the concurrent players list by"daily players." Instead of ranking Steam games by the number of people playing them this very moment, the daily players setting"ranks the games based on the total number of unique players over the past 24 hours," says Valve.
That changes the picture considerably. Games that are more popular in time zones other than my own, like PUBG, jump up several places when I switch to the daily players view. Grand Theft Auto 5 and Cyberpunk 2077 also leap up the list. Meanwhile, Team Fortress 2 drops 19 spots when I look at daily uniques instead of concurrents—that means that lots of instances of TF2 are running at the same time, but more people play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel every day.
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