Steamcharts

[Maiex]

Why does this game randomly jump from 100-200 players to 5000 players within hours then drops back down? Its done this multiple times, are the devs manipulating the chart in some way to gain exposure?

[Lithurge]

Yay for conspiracies! Nothing to do with the fact the boosts coincide with when it's on sale, which you can easily see from the info on Steamdb.

Expect another spike soon, I've just picked it up on GMG for less than a pound.

[Maiex]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Yay for conspiracies! Nothing to do with the fact the boosts coincide with when it's on sale, which you can easily see from the info on Steamdb.

Expect another spike soon, I've just picked it up on GMG for less than a pound.

Lmfao, so you are saying on may 8th the sale was so good the game jumped from 11 players to 3,318 players in 3 hours (6am - 9am), then back to 12 players by 1am, then ANOTHER amazing sale happened when the players went from 7 at 3 am (the NEXT day ahahahaa) to 2,687 players by 5 am (2 hour jump) then back tto 10 people by 5 am, then it goes from 13 players at 10 am to 3,476 players at 2 pm, 4 hour jump.. are you braindead? every day its going from 10 players to 4000 players within 2-3 hours, then back down to 10 players...

[Maiex]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Yay for conspiracies! Nothing to do with the fact the boosts coincide with when it's on sale, which you can easily see from the info on Steamdb.

Expect another spike soon, I've just picked it up on GMG for less than a pound.

and as you said, its on GMG or any other cheap key site for under a dollar, sales dont matter when its consistently on other sites for 10 cents lmao

[Penile Gland]

It’s because the CS2 item inventory phishing/scam bots are all playing it. It’s often the only game in their inventory. Likely who ever runs the scam bots also sells playerbase boosts to failing games like this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Penile Gland]

Either that, or for some reason, accounts with this game on it are cheap to buy. Almost all the bots have like 1-10 hours of playtime on this ♥♥♥♥ though.

[CryptikReap]

the playbase jump is because this game is probably 20 cents on one of the resell sites, scammers use it as a way to look "legit" on new accounts, they mostly consist of 3 total games that they have "playtime" in, using a steam game afker to get hours, usually its cs2,dota,and this or some other free to play garbage to look like a real person. they go through accounts like its nobodies business so the playerbase jump is a botfarm who either sells the accounts or uses them to attempt to scam.

[Skdursh]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

Yay for conspiracies! Nothing to do with the fact the boosts coincide with when it's on sale, which you can easily see from the info on Steamdb.

Expect another spike soon, I've just picked it up on GMG for less than a pound.

Lmfao, this game literally just jumped from about 100 players yesterday to over 27000 today, which just does not happen especially with old games that no one has heard about and no cares about and there's no "sALe" either. You're either a bot or a scammer yourself. You're literally trying to gaslight AND advertise at the same time with your garbage post. Almost nobody real is buying this game.

[dantès]

I've got this game, and just saw this game featured on steamdb -- literally why im here.

thought it was a new update/news that boosted the player count. hmmm

[Rerigan]

Originally posted by dantès:

I've got this game, and just saw this game featured on steamdb -- literally why im here.

thought it was a new update/news that boosted the player count. hmmm

you always gotta check the recent reviews numbers to make sure the game is alive

[top 10 firetrucks]

Most of the larger spikes in player count occur at the same time as The First Descendants playtests both in May and June of 2024. Likely just a weird mixup.

[BDNeon]

Bot accounts, I only even found out about this game because I got an invite from an obvious bot and was checking the games they have playtime in, and of course every single one is F2P in some way. It's an attempt to camo the account to make it look real.

[Hunter]

I dont think its the devs that are botting, its people trying to scam items and need to have a number of purchased games so they can message people that they don't have friended

[Knife.]

Cheap game bots can buy this game for $1.50 to make their accounts look more real since they have a "$15" game. The spikes in players are bot accounts farming hours to look more real. Has nothing to do with a dev conspiracy.

[Peter Parker]

Bots use this game as a way to boost hours. Nothing more nothing less

[PHAT VIRG]

hey, i know this is an old thread but a couple of random accounts that friended me (trying to scam my CS2 items i assume) have this game with an absurd amount of hours. I wonder if it has something to do with that...