Half-Life 2 Suddenly Hit Player Record After 17 Years

The Half-Life 2 community has come together to break the record for the most concurrent online players on one of FPS’s landmarks, bringing the total from 6,882 to over 16,000. So why is the Half-Life 2 community doing this? The answer is simply that Half-Life 2 fans want to see if they can break the game’s online co-player record.
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The Half-Life 2 ‘Breaking the Bar’ event was organized by the Lambda Generation fan community with the goal of seeing how much fans could increase Half-Life 2’s concurrent player count of 6,882. They were quite successful in breaking the highest milestone of 10 years ago with 12,953 people, to a new record of 16,101 people.
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The problem with Half-Life 2 achievement data lies in the game’s existence. Half-Life 2 released before Steam was equipped with tracking features and was a game released in the simplest state imaginable. By the time Steam started tracking metrics like concurrent players, most people had already “broken” Half-Life 2.

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