Artifact has had more players this weekend than it has in a year

Valve has officially announced that it's working on a re-release of Artifact, and the news seems to have reignited interest in the game: this weekend, more people were playing Artifact than the game has seen in a year. According to Steamcharts, Artifact saw a peak of 535 concurrent players Saturday at about 12:00 GMT. While a few hundred players isn't going to put Artifact shoulder to shoulder with Steam's most-played games, that is a remarkable figure for Artifact - its monthly average player count has been below 200 since April of last year, dipping into the 70s during July and August. Now, Valve has confirmed what had been rumoured for a while: it's working on a revamped, retooled version of the card game that ditches the original user market card economy for a free-to-play model that doesn't involve selling cards at all. The new version makes so many big changes to the way Artifact works that Valve has been referring to it internally as Artifact 2, and the company announced two weeks ago that the game is 'under construction.'

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