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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because it's not Valve doing it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yep, it's just random people running bots that trade keys for hats.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not bad for a 20 years old game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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.