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Looks like Telltale (The publisher, not the developer) has been busy on Steam today

m0r1artym0r1arty
in General Chat

I was playing around with SteamDB today and noticed that Telltale (The publisher, not the developer) was ranking at the top of Steam's online players through the Spacewar sandbox system:

The system is used to try out all sorts of processes and mechanisms which can be used via Steam for games in development or for trials of new methods of deployment. It's fairly common and used for very basic developer testing, up to alpha testing, to see how things are all coming together. But over 100K accounts online at once seems rather large to not have been announced in some shape or form and so I check against the other games from Telltale on this particular Steam account:

Poker Night 2 (The lesser of the awesome two games in that series) has the largest online presence at any one time with only 10% of what today's figures indicate.

So, is Telltale (The publisher not the developer) about to announce something super big and awesome launching on Steam? Or is my inner cynic thinking that The Wolf Among Us 2 is an Epic only launch at the moment and so lawyers wouldn't have this muddy those waters. Or is it all some sort of April Fool's gimmick and it's just yet to catch traction?

Answers on the back of a postcard to the Not Coal Supper please :)

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  • Blind SniperBlind Sniper Moderator
    edited April 1

    Hmm, I’d sooner guess it was probably some glitch or peculiarity with how the site is fetching its data. I don’t imagine any top secret Telltale project in testing (using the sandbox app) would need to simulate a scenario with ~100k players, assuming I understand your post correctly.

    Edit: I reread and understand a bit more. Hmm, I’d still wager it seems odd.

    (Obligatory disclaimer; mods are just community volunteers with no inside info)

  • m0r1artym0r1arty

    It is an oddity and I very much doubt it was intentional by anyone at Telltale (Either the publisher or the developer) but I saw it by chance, remembered my account here and thought I'd come and share it in case it was either a thing or just a silly piece of non-interesting history that might show up at a pub quiz for incredibly particular gamers who still use forums instead of this whole new fangled Web 2.0 thing (Which is run by evil bots!) and might get someone a point that crosses them over the line before the music round :)

    Blind Sniper posted: »

    Hmm, I’d sooner guess it was probably some glitch or peculiarity with how the site is fetching its data. I don’t imagine any top secret Tell

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