This summer, domestic PC travel is soaring! "Crossfire" and "Eternal Disaster" online numbers skyrocketed

The arrival of the summer season has significantly boosted the popularity of the game market, and recently, three games, including Team Fortress 2, CrossFire and Forever, have set new records for the number of simultaneous users after new content updates or switching to free.

Among them, "Crossfire" recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of the game, the official announced that the first hero-level weapon "Fire Qilin" since the launch of the game for free came out, the news once out, it triggered the enthusiastic participation of players, according to the real-time monitoring data of third-party websites, the game in the early morning of the night of the event, the number of people online at the same time reached 4.179 million, breaking their own record again.

It is reported that the last time "CrossFire" reached 4 million people online at the same time was eleven years ago, on August 26, 2012.

However, the screenshots seen by GameLook show that after "CrossFire" reached 4.179 million simultaneous online at the same time, the data quickly fell back to the normal level, and it can be speculated that many people just logged in to the game to receive benefits and went offline.

However, according to the official rules, after successfully receiving the "Fire Qilin", players only need to complete at least one game per month for the next six months to keep the weapon permanently, which is not much burden for many players who only come occasionally for various reasons.

 Similarly, Team Fortress 2, an old game released in 2007, 16 years later, due to ValVe's latest summer limited-time event, the number of simultaneous online players reached 258997, breaking its own record set last December, when the number of simultaneous online players reached 167591.

As for "Eternal Calamity", after the game was announced to be free on July 14, SteamDB data showed that the number of simultaneous online people on the game gold Steam platform exceeded 260,000, breaking its own record of 186,000 set in 2021. Not only that, but considering that there are other versions, the actual number of players will only grow even more.

However, like the previous games such as "Fall Guys" that turned free, the expansion of the player base will naturally cause a certain deterioration of the game environment due to plug-ins and other issues, but fortunately, NetEase is obviously fully prepared, banning 2,754 players who use plug-ins on the same day, and punishing some illegal players who "take trailers".

These three new or old games, in the face of the impact of new products such as Valorant, can still achieve good results, in fact, they have won the recognition and support of players through content. Perhaps, as netizens said:

"When a game has been in operation for more than ten years, I am afraid that it has not become a sentiment in itself, and it is difficult to cool down just by relying on old players to return to the pit."