Community Half-Life 2 gathered together to break the record for the highest number of concurrent online players of one of the monuments FPS, pushing the total from 6,882 to more than 16 thousand. So why is the Half-Life 2 community doing this? The answer is simply that Half-Life 2 fans want to see if they can break the record same player online of the game or not.
The Half-Life 2 ‘Breaking the Bar’ event was organized by the Lambda Generation fan community to see how much fans could increase Half-Life 2’s concurrent player count from 6,882. They were quite successful in beating the highest milestone from 10 years ago with 12,953 people with a new record of 16,101 people.
The problem with Half-Life 2’s achievement data lies in the game’s existence. Half-Life 2 came out before Steam is equipped with tracking features and is a title released in the simplest state imaginable. By the time Steam started tracking metrics like concurrent players, most people had “beat” Half-Life 2.
