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Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That percentage only matters in comparison to previous years, otherwise it’s just a random number.

While the article doesn’t give a lot of info, it does say it’s only down 1% from last year.

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ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
2025: 14%
2024: 15%
2023: 9%
2022: 17%

There’s room to be concerned with those numbers.

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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Honestly with that small of a sample size those numbers could mean anything.
  
  Wed need to know things like:
  
  How many hours worth of new game content was released (maybe there were only enough new games to make up 20% of playtime)
  
  How mich do Games as a Service impact things (they get new content, but aren’t “new” games)
  
  Are people playing games more or less (people could be playing new games the same amount, but increasing the amount of hours playing old games)
  
  A small sample of averages is really hard to interpret.
  
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Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
So last year was 15%? That’s 1 percentage point, but you could also say it’s down 6.7%, although we don’t have precise numbers to work with

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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s just how the article phrased it, surprisingly it’s hard to find historical “Steam Replay” stats so it’s hard to confirm/expand on any of this.
  
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