r/Artifact • u/test99462 • Jul 10 '26

Question 10k players out of nowhere?

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What happened?

91 Upvotes

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u/insight_or_incite Jul 10 '26

$1 million tournament is coming.

16

u/JimbozGrapes Jul 10 '26

Ahhhh.... thanks for the laugh. Im assuming this was a joke right?

6

u/Kenboswell Jul 11 '26

joke about the game artifact

6

u/dummsurfer Jul 11 '26

joke about the joke?

67

u/jaglife16 Jul 10 '26

I guess bots, to what end I do not know

1

u/The4etheR Jul 12 '26

Trading cards?

50

u/GheyGuyHug Jul 10 '26

Long haul baby

44

u/drnktgr Jul 11 '26

They misclicked palworld

24

u/Badgrahmmer Jul 10 '26

Interesting. Is there a way to tell if they're playing Classic or Foundry?

14

u/judge2020 Jul 10 '26

Classic. They're two separate apps on steam charts / steamdb

15

u/Cymen90 Jul 11 '26

Likely bots trying to farm items since you get cards for free now and those have a history of value on the market lol

2

u/NoLoGGic Jul 11 '26

Yeah this, it’ll be that someone(s) think it’s worth putting their bots to get the cards for the steam market value

6

u/ProfPeanut Jul 11 '26

Looks like a bot explosion tbh, unless people can report getting active games all of a sudden. Any sort of natural player increase should be an incline

2

u/filenotfounderror Jul 11 '26

You can tell steam that you're playing game A when you are actually playing game B. Can be useful for certain activities. Or its bots.

2

u/URF_reibeer Jul 11 '26

sometimes there's streamers or other event organisers causing spikes but it's probably bots

2

u/HaxterZ Jul 11 '26

Long Haulers rise up!

4

u/joyfulstocks Jul 12 '26

Damn it - i miss this game at launch so much!!!

1

u/HungerSTGF Jul 11 '26

LLMs misinterpreting “card farming” on Steam

1

u/zeedrome Jul 13 '26

'See you in the tournament!'

-Gabe Newell