Helldivers 2 Passes Starfield and Destiny 2 CCU Steam Numbers; Servers Now Capped at 450K Players

Helldivers 2 has passed the Steam concurrent player count for Starfield and Destiny 2 and is easily Sony’s best-performing game on Steam.

Earlier this month we reported that the sci-fi cooperative shooter easily surpassed the launch of God of War on Steam. Last week, Arrowhead CEO and Helldivers 2 Creative Director Johan Pilestedt revealed that the game had sold around 1 million copies with a roughly equal share between PS5 and PC units.

Fast forward one week and the Arrowhead’s game keeps impressing with Concurrent Players on Steam now having peaked at nearly 334.000 (333.827). Not only an impressive number on its own, but this means that the game also managed to beat peak concurrent players for Microsoft’s Starfield and the now Sony-owned Destiny 2 (via Benji-Sales). Another impressive stat is that Helldivers 2 actually has a higher peak player count than every other PlayStation game on PC combined. It will be interesting to see how player stats for Arrowhead’s game will evolve, but we’re pretty sure that the success of the game will be watched by the higher-ups at Sony.

Helldivers 2 is now the highest Concurrent Players ever for a Sony or Microsoft game on Steam

It has passed the previous highest for each console maker, Destiny 2 and Starfield

All-Time Peak
• Helldivers 2 – 333,827 and growing
• Starfield – 330,723
• Destiny 2 – 316,750 pic.twitter.com/aIjKG04I9O

— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) February 17, 2024

Despite being a great success for Sony and Arrowhead, the game does keep suffering from server and stability issues. In order to improve the stability of the game, Arrowhead has now decided (via Warior64 on X) to cap the total number of players at roughly 450k. “Earlier today we had server-related issues with a concurrent player spike”, the team wrote on the official Helldivers 2 Discord. “This led to some mission payouts failing, some players being kicked to their ships, or being logged out”.

Arrowhead added, “Therefore we’ve had to cap out concurrent players to around 450.000 to further improve server stability.”

Helldivers 2 servers are now capped at around 450k players to further improve server stability, according to the official Helldivers 2 Discord pic.twitter.com/Z4zRzRGl8n

— Wario64 (@Wario64) February 18, 2024

Helldivers 2 is available globally now for PC and PlayStation 5. Want to know if you’ll be able to join the fight on PC? Be sure to check out these ‘quite demanding’ PC requirements here.