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
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.
Not bad for a 20 years old game.
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.