Valve have released Steam Replay for 2025, showing off some interesting stats about your gaming and how it stacks up against everyone on Steam.
  • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 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.

      • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 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.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      1·
      2 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

      • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 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.