Can someone please tell me what happened in February 2021?

[2Tubix2]

So I only just started playing WOWS 3 days ago, and I've been looking at the steam charts:

The game has averaged about 5 - 15K players every day, but then in February 2021, there's a HUGE spike of 350,000 players.

As a new player who hasn't been around, can someone please tell me what happened in this game on February 2021? It's driving me insane cause I can't find anything that seemed to have caused such a huge spike in players.

(Also, I have no idea if this is only happened on steam or if this effected the entire playerbase.)

[ColonelPete]

No idea how steamcharts work. You will probably find the answer there.

[S_h_i_v_a]

I suppose the "Big Hunt" event, there was nothing else in February

 

https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/121

[Excavatus]

On 9/1/2021 at 12:54 PM, 2Tubix2 said:

So I only just started playing WOWS 3 days ago, and I've been looking at the steam charts:

The game has averaged about 5 - 15K players every day, but then in February 2021, there's a HUGE spike of 350,000 players.

As a new player who hasn't been around, can someone please tell me what happened in this game on February 2021? It's driving me insane cause I can't find anything that seemed to have caused such a huge spike in players.

(Also, I have no idea if this is only happened on steam or if this effected the entire playerbase.)

If you ask me thats a glitch. 

First of all steam only shows you the steam players not the game Client players. 

and since the game client is a fey years older than the steam, majority of the players are still on Game Client. 

I dont think there are even registered 353K players on steam. There may be and may be they've all updated their game and check whats new at the same time. 

But I'm still putting my money on a glitch