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There are many tricks involved to make players hunt for numbers or higher Steam levels by spending a fortune on something that seemingly serves no purpose other than that of ego. People are being massively exploited to make Valve as rich as possible, while they are using working business methods to attract people with bright colors. There are movies and cartoons that do the exact same thing despite having no narrative or animation depth to them. These methods, at this time are still working, as they are new and people haven’t yet figured them out. You spend money not because there is something of value, but because you are being encouraged to. Numbers are a prime example of Valve’s deception.
Because player numbers are displayed by Valve for all popular games, also some that are less popular on websites such as SteamDB, they give an incentive for older or newer players to get older Valve’s games and play them again. High player counts displayed on Steam for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and other games are forming a picture in player’s heads that these games are still relevant. In fact, this is not true and Team Fortress 2, as well as Left 4 Dead 2 have less players than what Steam displays. As funny as it is, high player count numbers are playing into people’s wishful thinking to self-program a motivation to play the game based on number, especially when other hidden systems in place make people stay in these games even longer. Even when there is no game session available in Left 4 Dead 2’s server browser, people will still fall for an old trick, while the game is, in fact, not very popular. Here are a bunch of examples of such Steam threads taking place.
There are many more such threads posted over time with people having no problem with their server browser. The reason for that is their games aren’t truly being played by that many people. Many players are "boosting hours" as usual, but some numbers appear "out of thin air". There has even been an occurrence in history, few years ago, when Team Fortress 2’s player count glitched and was dropped by about 80%. Fake numbers are at play and that is nothing new.
Here is a detailed statistics page for Team Fortress 2 that displays an actual number of players currently playing the dead game.
https://teamwork.tf/community/statistics
While 100,000 players are displayed on Steam page, this is how many players are in the game right now actually:
If you are not convinced then there is no helping you.
Because player numbers are displayed by Valve for all popular games, also some that are less popular on websites such as SteamDB, they give an incentive for older or newer players to get older Valve’s games and play them again. High player counts displayed on Steam for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and other games are forming a picture in player’s heads that these games are still relevant. In fact, this is not true and Team Fortress 2, as well as Left 4 Dead 2 have less players than what Steam displays. As funny as it is, high player count numbers are playing into people’s wishful thinking to self-program a motivation to play the game based on number, especially when other hidden systems in place make people stay in these games even longer. Even when there is no game session available in Left 4 Dead 2’s server browser, people will still fall for an old trick, while the game is, in fact, not very popular. Here are a bunch of examples of such Steam threads taking place.
There are many more such threads posted over time with people having no problem with their server browser. The reason for that is their games aren’t truly being played by that many people. Many players are "boosting hours" as usual, but some numbers appear "out of thin air". There has even been an occurrence in history, few years ago, when Team Fortress 2’s player count glitched and was dropped by about 80%. Fake numbers are at play and that is nothing new.
Here is a detailed statistics page for Team Fortress 2 that displays an actual number of players currently playing the dead game.
https://teamwork.tf/community/statistics
While 100,000 players are displayed on Steam page, this is how many players are in the game right now actually:
If you are not convinced then there is no helping you.
