Starfield hits over 330,700 concurrent players on Steam, beating Skyrim’s record
Starfield has yet to beat Fallout 4’s record on Steam
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Starfieldhas already smashedSkyrim’s concurrent player record onSteam.
Less than two weeks after launching in early access, Bethesda’s sci-fi RPG hit an all-time peak of 330,723 concurrent players on September 10, according toSteamDB, surpassingThe Elder Scrolls5: Skyrim’s record (viaVGC).
Skyrimachieved 287,411 concurrent players on Steam 12 years ago and is still played by a massive amount of players weekly. AlthoughStarfieldhas managed to beat one of Bethesda’s most popular games of all time, it has yet to beatFallout 4, which had the company’s highest-ever peak in concurrent players on Steam, at 472,962 during its release in 2015.
Considering thatStarfieldis also available onXbox Series X|Sas well asXbox Game Pass, it’s possible that the overall concurrent player count on all available platforms right now is much bigger than we’re aware.
According to Bethesda on September 7, the game reportedlyracked up over six million players. “As of this morning,Starfieldhas already surpassed six million players, making it the biggest Bethesda game launch of all time,” the announcement read. This followed a successful launch when the game managed to surpassone million concurrent playersacrossXbox Series X|S, cloud streaming, andPC.
Meanwhile, game directorTodd Howard has confirmed that official mod support will be implemented intoStarfieldnext year.
“When the mods are ready, you will be able to do almost anything as we have done in the past, and the mods will be supported next year, but we will do it in a big way because we love it too,” Howard said.
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He also commented on futurepost-launch DLC, but is keeping quiet on the details for now, saying: “When it will be released is a secret.”
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