40k player drop? or am i seeing things?

[ILUVCUNNY_Prpr]

here’s an image from steamdb on the player count from the steam side of warthunder, this drops from 80k to 40k from the 12th to the 13th

honestly, this is a sign of either a ban wave of hacked clients or it’s bots going offline like you would see in TF2’s player count, only a matter of time to tell when the player numbers come back online all at once

[Stona_WT]

It’s some kind of glitch/error from the steamdb site.
Player numbers look ok from what I can see in the system. During this weekend, between 175-100k on the server. You can check the player numbers directly in the game - top left side of hangar.