How is Valve pumping up the concurrent player count not a bigger news story? That is like the metric for calculating popularity of a game and Valve is openly fudging the numbers without anyone caring. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Aus for example community servers get full quick, there is a pro league going with multiple divisions, and then those who try brave casual servers as well.
Aus alone would have over 500+ players regularly playing daily.
Bots and cheaters have completely overtaken it and the small community that still plays has finally had enough
You and I have very different concepts of small.
Check this video, bots count as players in the stats, the real player numbers are like 15k/10k.
https://youtu.be/2stmQfv93oQ
Not bad for a 20 years old game.
How is Valve pumping up the concurrent player count not a bigger news story? That is like the metric for calculating popularity of a game and Valve is openly fudging the numbers without anyone caring. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Because it’s not Valve doing it
Yep, it’s just random people running bots that trade keys for hats.
Surely that 70k would include the bots though? Like of it’s 69,500 bots and 500 people then it seems fair to call it a small community
Na there is a lot of real players still playing.
Aus for example community servers get full quick, there is a pro league going with multiple divisions, and then those who try brave casual servers as well.
Aus alone would have over 500+ players regularly playing daily.