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How is Valve pumping up the concurrent player count not a bigger news story? That is like the metric for calculating popularity of a game and Valve is openly fudging the numbers without anyone caring. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Because it's not Valve doing it
Yep, it's just random people running bots that trade keys for hats.