TF2's Player Stats Are a Lie and Here's Proof

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Published on January 8, 2022 6:02:32 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJaTCMwwoos

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Team Fortress 2 (2007)

Duration: 15:32

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Something weird is going on with Team Fortress 2's player numbers.

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.

Toofty's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmdSHm1dEbA

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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/

🎵 Music:
Team Fortress 2 - Dapper Cadaver
Pokémon Snap - Professor Oak's Lab
Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver - Burned Tower
Eastward - Homelike
Team Fortress 2 - Seduce Me!
Super Mario Maker 2 - Course World
Team Fortress 2 - A Little Heart to Heart
Team Fortress 2 - Archimedes
GoldenEye 007 - Mission Briefing
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Kakariko Village
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Inside the Pirate Ship
Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver - Union Cave
Eastward - Ester Outfield
Stardew Valley - Pelican Town
KD Knows My Name - Can't Relate (Vulcan Boy Lo-fi Remix)

🎬 Chapters:
0:00 - Something weird is going on
0:51 - Steam Charts vs Teamwork.tf explained
3:28 - Steam Charts rumours/theories busted
7:02 - In-server and in-game numbers vs other games
8:13 - Daily peaks and troughs vs other games
9:30 - Rapid and severe player number changes
11:10 - So, what *is* going on with TF2's player numbers?

#tf2 #teamfortress #steamcharts

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