Dota 2 breaks the limit of million concurrent players

Dota 2 broke the 1 million concurrent players barrier for the first time on Sunday, February 15. Dota 2 is also the first game to break the 1 million player barrier on Steam. Competitor League of Legends attracts significantly more players.

The breakthrough is apparent from the statistics of the number of online players that Steam operator Valve itself keeps online. It revealed that Dota 2 was played by 1,075,464 players on Sunday, February 15, breaking the 1 million concurrent player barrier for the first time. Dota 2 is also the record holder on Steam; no other game that can be played via the platform managed to reach such a number. Dota 2 therefore has more than twice as many players as the number two on the list, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which attracts more than 400,000 simultaneous players.

Dota 2 is therefore well behind competitor League of Legends. At the Riot Games moba, the record since January 2014 stands at 7.5 million concurrent players. In addition, Dota 2 lags behind Minecraft. Mojang, the Swedish maker of Minecraft, announced earlier this year that it is attracting 1 million concurrent players. However, the actual number is higher, as Mojang can only measure how many players are online and not how many people are playing offline. In addition, the studio can only see who is playing on Windows, OS X or Linux version 1.3 of the game or later online and not who is playing on mobile platforms or with an older version of the game.