TF2's player numbers are not real #tf2 #gaming #teamfortress2
9,666Something weird is going on with Team Fortress 2's player numbers.
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TF2 player counts on Steam Charts and teamwork.tf have long been compared. In this video we disprove one of the most commonly spread explanations about how Steam Charts counts players and take a seriously hard look at how TF2's player numbers compare to other games or to be more precise, how they do not.
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📑 Sources:
Steam Charts live stats - https://steamcharts.com/app/440
Teamwork.tf live stats - https://teamwork.tf/community/statistics/
Creator of Steam Charts tweet - https://twitter.com/james4k/status/1444749964165488642
*The* reddit comment - https://np.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/dz639u/so_i_got_into_digging_and_found_out_some_info/f868par/
Various about pages quoting "current"
- https://store.steampowered.com/stats/
- https://steamcharts.com/about
- https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/ISteamUserStats#GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers
- https://playtracker.net/insight/game/878
Steam DB in-server stats (page retired at the end of 2021) - https://web.archive.org/web/20211113123140/https://steamdb.info/servers/
As time goes on, some charts used in the video will become unavailable on their respective sites, but most should be accessible and verifiable via https://archive.org/web/
#tf2 #teamfortress #steamcharts
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