Team Fortress 2 hits a new player count record
Smissmas 2018 launched yesterday and – as you can see via SteamDB – the player count rose precipitously immediately following that update. It’s close to the previous record (so close that Steam Charts actually reports it slightly lower), but the rise is so sudden that it seems pretty suspect.
We don’t know for sure what happened, but the popular speculation is that we can thank bots for this. Since TF2’s items have some value on the Steam market, it’s not unusual for bots to idle and grab items, and the return of the Giftapult means a new reason to do so here. Community-run trackers which report the number of people playing on servers routinely report significantly lower numbers that more general trackers. Last we checked post, 54,892 people were logged into TF2 via Steam. According to Teamwork.tf, only 14,278 people were actually playing.
This isn’t the first time we’ve had bots as a potential reason for a weird shift in TF2’s player count. Back in February, average players dropped by 15k in just a single month. This was around the time of Fortnite’s big rise, but it seemed that crackdown on idling bot accounts was the more likely reason for the shift – as succinctly described by a video from Valve News Network.
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