Both Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox had a little bit of a rough holiday period. After all, when many users turned on their new PS4s and Xbox Ones they found themselves unable to connect to the online networks for either console thanks to a DDoS attempt taking them both down. However, seems Valve’s Steam had a much better time of it.

At around 11:30 in the morning on January 1st, Steam reached a new record for users online at the same time. According to the Steam Game and Player Statistics page there were 8,466,441 people using Steam simultaneously at that time which is around 400,000 more than the previous record which saw just over 8 million log on around late July 2014.

Dota 2 was obviously the most popular game of the day, drawing around 875,000 players to that record total with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (360,000 players), Rounding out the top five were Team Fortress 2 (89,000 players), Football Manager 2015 (75,000 players), and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (66,000 players) being the next four most played games of the time.

Given that it was only a year before Steam broke 7 million concurrent users, and two years that it made it past 6 million; no one can say that Steam has been anything but successful for Valve as a venture.

If only we knew when to expect news on the Steam Boxes…