If you count from the early access, the open world first-person survival shooter DayZ has been on sale for 9 years. But it is such an "old tree" that has recently opened a "new flower". According to statistics, the number of Recent Steam online players of DayZ has broken through a new high.
According to SteamDB, Dayz reached 58,523 simultaneous online players on Steam on April 24, the highest value since the game entered the EA phase in December 2013.
In fact, the number of DayZ online players has been on an upward trend since it fell to a low of around 3,000 in mid-2018. The long EA phase is obviously much longer than most players are willing to wait, but the end of the EA phase in December 2018 put many players back into the game.
Since then, the launch of successive iterations of content seems to have led more and more players to believe that DayZ will continue to evolve in the long run, which has also brought a new batch of players to the game.
Recently, DayZ released an update to version 1.17, adding new weapons such as the CR-550 Savanna rifle, P1 pistol, and Longhorn pistol to the game. It also adds more crafting recipes, such as a simple gas mask filter and craftable spears. The update also brings the Walpurgis Night event from now until May 9.
More than just content, DayZ has recently garnered a lot of ads through social media alone. Over the past 30 days, DayZ live streaming has seen an 81 percent increase in watch time on Twitch, a 20 percent increase in new channels, and a more than 300 percent increase in the maximum number of viewers.
According to data from Google, the search volume for "DayZ" has almost doubled in the past month. With this data, the future of this game looks quite bright.