According to foreign media reports recently, the peak of Steam, a new open source free game "Spacewar!", launched in 1962, suddenly soared to 138,000, which caused heated discussions. Media analysis may be caused by piracy.

·It is speculated that it is related to the new game "Schedule I", which has just been launched recently. This game is very popular among players, and the peak of Steam once exceeded 400,000.

·But among them, there may be more than 100,000 peaks of all of them are contributed by pirated players. The open source free old game "Spacewar!" was launched in 1962 and has been placed on Steam. It is provided free of charge as a sample of Steamworks API developers. The problem is that the peak increase during this period is obviously not because of the sudden popularity of this game.

·The media speculates that many players have found loopholes in AppID, but they play pirated games themselves but pretend to be the illusion of Steam online.

·Similar events have occurred frequently in recent years. For example, when popular games such as "Palu" in January 2024 and "Son of the Forest" in February 2023 were launched, the peak of "Spacewar!" "Steam!" also soared abnormally. I hope V Club can pay attention.