Nine years after the release of DayZ, the world's multiplayer survival first-person shooter (counting from the EA stage), Steam's simultaneous online player base has recently reached a new high.
According to SteamDB, Dayz reached 58,523 steam players online at the same time 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 lengthy EA phase is obviously much longer than most players are willing to wait for, but the end of the EA phase in December 2018 put many players back in the game. Since then, the introduction of iterative 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 new players.
Recently, DayZ released the 1.17 version update, adding a large number of new content to the game, including new weapons, new recipes, etc., and the peak player data this time was achieved after the update.
In addition, in the past 30 days, the watch time of DayZ live broadcasts on Twitch has increased by 81%, the number of new channels has increased by 20%, and the maximum number of viewers has increased by 300%. Google reports also say that searches for DayZ have almost doubled in the past month. With this data, the future of this game looks quite bright.