Player Record Breaks in 24 Years of Half-Life [Video]

There has been an important development regarding Half-Life, which was released in 1998 and played a critical role in Valve’s getting to where it is today. Half-Life fans, who decided to hold an event on August 14 by talking in the past months and implemented it yesterday, managed to break the simultaneous player record of the game. The number of simultaneous players, which was 6,022 in the previous records, increased to 12,280 with yesterday’s event.

The players were very determined for the event, which they brought up with the hashtag “#RememberFreeman” on Twitter. Everything was considered, and it was even explained one by one that the players who would participate in the event had to stay in the game for at least half an hour. In this way, the Steam data would definitely be updated and the simultaneous player record would be broken, which was the case.

Here is the data from SteamDB:

SteamDB, the database service for games on Steam, has updated its Half-Life page with the #RememberFreeman event. In the update, it was revealed that the number of simultaneous players is 12,280. However, the actual number of simultaneous players may be slightly higher than that. Because, according to a live broadcast by LambdaGeneration, which undertook and announced the event, Steam detected 12,310 simultaneous Half-Life players, some of which were not reflected in SteamDB.

Whatever the real number is; A historic day has passed for Half-Life. Half-Life fans had an unforgettable day with their event. So, will Half-Life one day break the concurrent player record with organic players, not events? There is no answer to this question at the moment, but such a situation seems unlikely. Of course, if Valve doesn’t break his heart and Half-Life 3 doesn’t come out…

Here’s the live stream as Half-Life broke the simultaneous player record