Steam is a Graveyard for Multiplayer (PvP) games

The problem is the quality of those "PvP Games", mostly are just fashion games and they will be abandoned when the hype dies, a very good example is Evolve, mediocre game but everyone played until the hype died D: The only multiplayers game i purchase or play are mmorpg, most shooters or moba clones will always die after a while D:
Sad story... D:

I see plenty of games with a decent user base
http://steamcharts.com/top

The problem is not on Steam, but on the game itself.

Surely you SHOULD NOT compete with DOTA 2, they have huge user base, great game, and they are free.
Surely you SHOULD NOT compete with CS : GO, they have huge user base, and great game too.
The reason that some games are failing is that they fail to compete, it's as simple as that. There is no logical reasons that we should blame Steam for the failures of the "newer" game to compete with Steam.

So, instead of creating another game like DOTA or CS : GO, developers should invent another type of game.
In fact, there are still a lot of MMO that are still quite successful in Steam : Planetside 2, Robocraft, Payday 2, EVE Online, and many more.

The difficulty is a successful MOBA is not the platform, its how your game is better than DOTA, LOL, or other contenders. If your game is better than DOTA 2, surely you will be successful. Don't blame Steam for your mistakes. Concerning FPS, Planetside 2 Heroes and Generals, and Payday 2, are still roaring. Their key? Having a different feel than CS : GO. Planetside 2 and Heroes and Generals are focusing on large scale battles. Payday 2 on some variety on their heists. Insurgency on their class and their increased realism. Each of the "successful" one have something new to offer. If you have nothing new, no one will wants you.

There are always people to play with (or against) in Dark Souls 2.

I think it just goes to show that PvP and multiplayer doesn't have the following that developers and publishers think they do. Especially as people get older and have more commitments, a good single player game will ultimately have more appeal to a broader cross-section of gamers.

Insurgency, Survarium, Double Action, TF2, Dino DDay, CS Nexon Zombies?

Awesomenauts is doing pretty well too :p (in the MOBA genre)

Dota

there are heaps of fairly dead games out there but not all look at stuff like H1Z1, DayZ, ROK all seems to have lots of players to me (disclaimer: I'm actually not that fortunate enough to own or have played on these servers myself though)

Garry's Mod
Warframe
H1Z1
Arma 3
DayZ
Unturned
Rust
PlanetSide 2
Nosgoth
Insurgency
CoD: Advanced Warfare
CoD: Modern Warfare 3
Evolve
Warface

All in the top 100 most played games on Steam at this time right now.

Couldn't it be that since PvP in FPS is literally the same since Doom 1, people just realized that instead of shooting each other with the same weapons in seven hundred different games, it would be easier to shoot each other in one game and it became CS:GO? (Plus the old Quake 1 scene.) I mean I sure cannot see much difference in, for example, Counter-Strike, Titanfall or any CoD game's FFA DM MP gameplay apart from different maps and calling weapons different names.

It's easy to blame only one thing for a reason affected by so many factor

i actually agree. go check active games... quite a sad sight. for the lazy:
Current Players //////////////Peak Today Game

510,516///// 844,806 Dota 2
198,443 //////// 512,735 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
43,924 /////// 73,982 Team Fortress 2
25,851 ////////// 67,121 Football Manager 2015
19,598 /////// 46,451 Sid Meier's Civilization V
18,737 ////////// 48,946 Garry's Mod
18,017 ////////// 32,384 Warframe
16,784 ////////// 40,179 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
12,536 /////////// 30,547 Counter-Strike
12,085 //////////// 37,554 Arma 3

i dont think thats the fault of steam though.

Dota
Payday 2
Cs:go
Solstice arena

Both first and last are MOBA
the ones in the mid are FPS

Most of these games will disappear in a year or two anyways, Steam or not. Steam has nothing to do with it - besides that Steam's advertisements and discounts wil more likely make you buy them at the first place. (Random Free to play MMO on Steam seems to be more intresting as random F2P MMO ad in a browser. But they are similarly bad and both are in the same oversaturated market)
Steam is a "graveyard" only because people publish their game here. The games would sell similarly bad and would disappear maybe even earlier.

You're complaining but after seeing what you have in your library, I don't know why. The only games that enter your catagories (PVP and with a dead community) are Aerena, Primal Carnage and Gun Monkeys.
You don't have "any multiplayer FPS or Moba dead or barrely breathing" in your library.

War Thunder is doing ok.

RIP SMNC

:((((((((

I loved that game :(

This is one of times I prefer consoles for multiplayer games. Even for niche games, quite a few people will play them.

On PC, multiplayer games die quite quickly after awhile. It's one of the reasons I worry about getting MGS5 on PC. I know MGO will have the biggest community on PS4, and probably the longest lasting. Although maybe because MGS5 is a popular name, when it goes on sale people will be more willing to buy and play it online.

Dear steam I want more zombie and pvp multiplayer games. thank you. I know we already have a lot, but we need more. keep feeding us. I will buy every single one. also please add llamas. the fans want zombie and llama games. also turn on friendly fire so you have 2 enemies (players and zombies). make llamas mounts and ride around shooting zombies and people. then you'll get so much money drown and die. I agree steam needs some better pvp games but preferably with zombies and llamas...

Is Chivalry dead ? I don't see anyone mentioning it. I didn't play it for a long time.