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Curious Steam Success: Free Capcom

Cap com Arcade Stadium is an arcade computer game collection by Cap com. It includes 32 arcade games initially released by Cap com in between 1984 as well as 2001. The collection was originally released on Nintendo Switch in February 2021, after that on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and also Xbox One later on in May.

If you look at the number of players the platform Steam the top places of the same old evergreens like CS: GO, Data 2 and Co. ingested. Most high-profile new releases can provide variety there once. Therefore, the recent triumph of a free game from Cap com seems rather strange. The game, released in May 2021 is totally going through the roof, although it is actually no one plays. What is this going on?

Steam-player numbers: What makes the Cap com game there?

The top games in terms of player numbers rare there are great movement on Steam. GO, Data 2 and PUBG: on the top positions, the PC-cracker CS frolic as usual. Hit-sensations or large releases can because although sometimes to get involved, but this is not the norm.

More surprising is a glimpse into the current charts of the most played games on Steam: get Instead of the usual sight, is located in the all-time high of over 488,000 game ends, a new game among the top courses — Cap com Arcade Stadium. (Source: Steam DB)

New it is not really true here, because the emulator game by Cap com was released in May 2021st Therein can you old experience arcade classics in a collection. In the free basic game but only the shoot'em up 1943: The Battle of Midway included.

So why these players rush? Has made a fresh update for enthusiasm? Or is it just trendy to Twitch? No, the answer is much simpler. In the supposed player masses, it is not a question about people behind their computer screens sit, but a bunch of bots.

Why rush bots Cap com Arcade Stadium?

Did the bots suddenly lust got on planes to shoot himself? No of course not. Bots are often programmed to lie in changes of games in wait on Steam for to beat monetizing. For example, if a paid game to a free game is.

Forgotten Capcom Games - Austin Eruption The trading cards associated with the game are then collected in masses from the bots and sold on the private marketplace of Steam. In the case of Cap com's arcade stage the free game have been added for the first time trading cards. Time for the bots, and slam here immediately. (Source: Twitter)

If you look currently in the statistics of the number of players, the rush has already died down on its prey and the bots have moved on. Or until the next fall profit opportunity in their hibernation. Real people so well again — now cavort currently under 1000 Players in Cap com Arcade Stadium. (Source: Steam DB)

In Steam find again and again real curiosities — such as the Idle Game Cookie Clicker, which has recently celebrated its comeback on the platform:

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