While Team Fortress 2 was one of the biggest games around in the late 2000s, many gamers probably don't even give it a second thought in 2020. Yet somehow the classic game reportedly attracted more players than it has in years, thanks to its Halloween event Scream Fortress XII--though observers caution not all of the players logged are real people.
As noticed by PC Gamer, tracking sites such as SteamCharts and SteamDB show TF2 recently hitting a new number of concurrent players--though whether that is an all-time record is unclear. SteamCharts shows a new peak player count of 130,548 logged this October, beating a previous high of 117,917 in August 2012. However, the site's data only begins in 2012, five years after TF2's launch.
That's not to say the numbers are insignificant for a 13-year-old game, but there is reason to view the specific number with some skepticism. While Scream Fortress XII adds a few new Halloween-themed cosmetics and maps, it's largely comprised of recycled Halloween content from years past. The real answer for the surge, according to Twitter user @Stamosxd, is bots. Of the 130,000 odd players logged, only around 25,000 are real players, as shown by Teamwork.TF's server-based player tracking.
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