Half-Life 2 suddenly hit the player record after 17 years

Community Half-Life 2 gathered together to break the record for the highest number of concurrent players online of one of the monuments FPS, pushing the total from 6,882 to over 16k. 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 record online players of the game or not.
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The Half-Life 2 ‘Breaking the Bar’ event was organized by the Lambda Generation fan community with the aim of seeing how much fans could increase Half-Life 2’s concurrent player count from 6,882. They were quite successful in beating the highest milestone from 10 years ago with 12,953 people with a new record of 16,101 people.
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The problem with Half-Life 2’s achievement data lies in the existence of the game. Half-Life 2 came out before Steam is equipped with tracking features and is the title 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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