How Steam Bot Farmers boosted Prismata to #4 on the Steam Charts

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Published on June 6, 2018 5:49:55 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiPrPfP7P6A

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After having Valve configure their game on Steam for a Promotional free weekend it was discovered by Lunarch Studios, the developers of the Early Access title Prismata, that Valve had left the Steam Trading Cards enabled. This led to over 100,000 Russian Bot accounts to harvest Steam Trading Cards from the game. This also artificially boosted the game to the #4 slot for concurrent players for that weekend.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/8lt4t9/how_my_tiny_indie_game_became_4_on_the_steam_top/
http://miped.ru/f/threads/prismata-v-stime-xaljana-est-karty.63665/

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