Today is one of only two days where 16k has been exceeded (so far), with the other being 29th Nov 2015
Elite Dangerous (Steam) just set a new All Time record for concurrent CMDRs, beating previous highest in Nov 2015
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Interesting to note that Saturday tends to have more people playing than Friday, so may get 17k tomorrow. Who knows maybe the all-time record could come under threat
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I'm sure the fact that the game is on sale for $8.99 (70% off) is completely unrelated.
Today is one of only two days where 16k has been exceeded (so far), with the other being 29th Nov 2015
This is going to be a really good weekend for elite. Its onwards and upwards. Frontier have the world at their shoulders with a bottomless pit of ARX and DLC money awaiting if they get this right. Its about damn time they realised how valued Elite is, compared to Zoo simulators!
Yes Yes Yes... people playing, people buying, more money for FDEV, more developers, more manpower... VR... maybe not for launch, but S O O N after, isn't it FDEV? 
It's a combination of the Fleet Carriers Update launch, last week's Odyssey news, and the sale.
Elite has been discounted on Steam six times this year
This is the six-month Steam player stats - orange dots from left-to-right:
Fleet Carriers news -> FC Beta start -> Odyssey news -> FC launch & Steam sale
It's a combination of the Fleet Carriers Update launch, last week's Odyssey news, and the sale.
Elite has been discounted on Steam six times this year
This is the six-month Steam player stats - orange dots from left-to-right:
Fleet Carriers news -> FC Beta start -> Odyssey news -> FC launch & Steam sale
Your graph is incomplete - doesn't show lockdowns or public holidays. Those are also factors.
Not that I'm saying the game is dead, but the numbers should be presented in context.
The last 6 months would probably cover everything except bonfire night last year...
Nice one FD!
THIS IS A QUALITY GAME
THIS IS A QUALITY GAME
Wow, what a necro. The last thread someone necroed wasn't even bad and got locked very quickly so if this one doesn't that's some bad bias. Common mods keep to your pretty high standards.
Necroing a 2-month old thread is bad? Whoops:Wow, what a necro. The last thread someone necroed wasn't even bad and got locked very quickly so if this one doesn't that's some bad bias. Common mods keep to your pretty high standards.
Carrier advantages for explorers
While preparing a fleet for exploring, quickly encountered some neat advantages for out of bubble explorers which i quite like: You don't need to engineer the canopy ships anymore. If the carrier is doing the travelling, there's no need to min max or engineer at all. Ships like the adder, asp...
OMG - Double Painite Mining
Has anyone found a double painite spot since the patch? The miner's tool web page is down.
Elite Dangerous need to get serious about Cross Platform.
I use KB/M plus a controller, so how would that work? You get your own server.
Sunday at 9pm is nearly always peak Elite. I think that 18k record might be close to going by Sunday evening, maybe even tonight.
Any daily peak over 10k concurrent players are traditionally good numbers, and at the lowest point of the day (8am this morning) there were 9,300 people online.
What about blights, famines, pirate attacks, wars and expansions?
Interesting... Covid spike perhaps?New record set on 12th June 2020 - this is only the second time ever that 16k has been exceeded
(and doesn't even count the many non-Steam PC, Xbox, and PS4 CMDRs)
Original post:
Steam concurrent CMDRs online reaches FOUR-year high over Easter weekend - highest since 1st Dec 2015
Horizons launched on 15th December 2015.
The recent playerbase resurgence began the day of Fleet Carriers Content Reveal Announcement, and benefited from the lockdowns that started early March.
More data taken from my comment later in this thread
Anyway, here are two 6-month charts from SteamDB, showing Daily Peak Concurrent (top) and Price (bottom) - I've also marked the weekend when quarantining & lockdowns began in Europe:
Meanwhile, here are the Maximum/Average/Minimum Daily Peak Steam Concurrents for each March/April/May, each year, since Elite Dangerous' launch on Steam - the Aprils are highlighted for convenience:
Lastly, here are the 1-month daily peak concurrent Steam charts for Elite Dangerous plus the top-five most-played games on Steam (clockwise from top-right), to visualise the COVID lockdown effect:
I've got the zoo simulators. They're fun too.
I bought them to give me something to do when VR is dropped from E: D (though wasn't aware of that at the time). It is 9am UTC on Saturday morning and the player count is at 10.3k already. I cant remember seeing the playercount this high at this early time in the morning.
I think we are going to beat last night's record again tonight.
We al know steam numbers don't mean anything.
But it does indicate that the game is doing very well. For every 20 people who play I reckon there is at least 1 who will buy £10 worth of ARX. More players mean more developers and more updates. Be more positive