Watch Dogs 2 Sees Unexpected Player Count Surge on Steam Nearly a Decade After Launch
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Grant Taylor-Hill
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Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft's open-world crime game released in November 2016, has experienced an unexpected surge in player activity on Steam a decade after launch. The game reached a peak of 16,220 concurrent players in the last 24 hours — close to its original launch peak of 18,139 — representing a 1,167% increase in peak players within a single week. The resurgence is attributed to a recent Steam sale that discounted the game.
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· 3 pulledWatch Dogs 2 has managed to hit a peak player count of 16,220 users in the last 24 hours on Steam, which comes a whopping ten years after it last managed those kinds of numbers.
Now, a decade later, it has managed to soar close to that figure, skyrocketing up the charts and securing a 1,167% increase in peak players on Steam within one week.
Watch Dogs 2 recently went on sale on Steam, with the price being s
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