Rejuvenating old games? “Capcom Arcade Stadium” launched by CAPCOM was in Steam’s statistics yesterday (30). At the same time, there were 477,000 people playing at the same time, second only to “Dota2” and surpassing “PUBG” and “Apex”. What happened to popular online games like “Hero”?
“Capcom Arcade Museum” is a free game on the main body, equipped with a free work “1943”, 3 packs of game expansion packs are sold separately, divided into large-scale video game dawn period (’84-’88), large-scale video game heyday (’89 – ’92) and the evolutionary period of large-scale video games (’92 – ’01), each includes the popular shooting, fighting, and action games of the year. There are 10 games in each package.
This is not because of Steam’s system failure, nor is it because the three major packages are free (although there is a 25% discount in the fall). “Capcom Arcade Museum” was launched on Steam in May this year. According to SteamDB statistics, the past average is about Around 20 people are playing at the same time every day.
And why it soared to 470,000, according to SteamDB founder Pavel Djundik, it should be a bunch of card trading robots (BOT).
Players who play Steam know that every time they play a game, they can get some cards for the game, and the cards can be used for trading, and they can be exchanged for some Steam points. These card trading robots will continue to automatically search and join free games in Steam to accumulate free trading cards.
Although “Capcom Arcade Museum” was originally a free game on the main body, and it comes with a “1943”, it seems that Capcom has added transaction cards in the near future, and it immediately became the target of robots. So these 470,000 people are not players who suddenly feel nostalgic and want to play barrage games, but just a bunch of robots.
The case of “Capcom Arcade Museum” is not the first. The same situation appeared in the first chapter of “Life is Strange 2” for free. It was also because robots came in to earn cards and the number of people playing at the same time skyrocketed.
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