Half-Life Fans More Than Double Previous Concurrent Player Record

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When the first Half-Life game hit shelves back in 1998, it became a phenomenal success, winning multiple awards and becoming an instant classic. In fact, it's gone on to become one of the most innovative FPS games of all time, up there with the likes of Doom and Quake. To this day, people are still playing and modding the iconic shooter. In fact, some fans have been playing it so much that they've managed to break a previous record.

Before very recently, the record for most concurrent people playing Half-Life at the same time was just over 6,000. Now, as spotted by The Gamer, this number has been more than doubled, with the new figure peaking at 12,310, which is a pretty significant achievement. A VOD on the LambdaGeneration YouTube channel captured their entire livestream of the event, which lasted just under three hours in total. During the playthrough, it can be seen that the most players in the game peaked at 12,280. However, a tweet announcing the record had an update showing that Steam had registered 12,310.

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This event, which utilized the Twitter hashtag #RememberFreeman, had been discussed last month. A couple of Half-Life fans wanted to encourage others to play on August 14, with the goal of beating the previous concurrent player record of 6,022, which was the number SteamDB had on its database at the time. The rules for the event stated that players must be in-game for at least half an hour in order for Steam to register it. Players also had to use the original game, so the Source build was not permitted, and neither were any of the official DLCs.

Given the sheer might and ubiquitousness of Steam, there are millions of PC gamers around the world that