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Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
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Do we know what valve defines "release" as?
This has come up a lot over the years but between "early access" games that launch in borderline beta form and live games that never leave it (and if you see a similarity between those: congrats, you now understand how important marketing is)... what is the actual difference between a fully new release and a game that just got a major update with 10 hours of story content?
This semi-famously came up back pre-pandemic when Alex Navarro made a fairly impassioned soapbox about Fire Pro World and how if they didn't discuss it for Giant Bomb's GOTY the year it entered EA then they never would... and then was immediately shut down. Although Jeff Gerstmann has often talked about how GOTY discussions are really just shopper's guides and he has always approached them from that perspective.
They only count the official release date on Steam. DLC/expansions don’t count even if they are new releases, which I consider pretty odd. My report shows zero new games played, yet I played two expansions that came out this year.