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As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don't actually care that much for the metric

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As Steam player counts continue to dominate conversations around multiple games, it turns out 45% of you don't actually care that much for the metric
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Steam player counts are an odd metric. They can be a neat insight into a game's initial popularity (at least on PC), and a handy way of gaining some kind of ballpark on games that keep their active playerbase numbers closer to their chest. But they're also unceremoniously used to throw games under the bus—declaring singleplayer games dead when they inevitably see a falloff in the weeks following release, or forgetting to factor in whether the game is in fact also on a bunch of other launchers an

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