Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

and 32.8% use Gobbledygook.

Originally posted by HulaGirl86:

Is Steam a big deal in China or is it not a big deal they just have that many people?

Probably just bots. Lots of them.

Nooooo

Originally posted by Affronter:

and 32.8% use Gobbledygook.

Man, last time I used that word Steam covered the last four letters with hearts.

Progress marches on, I guess.

OP that's "simplified"?

I can't imagine the complex version. Holy hieroglyphs, Batman!

Originally posted by IGX:

Originally posted by HulaGirl86:

Is Steam a big deal in China or is it not a big deal they just have that many people?

Probably just bots. Lots of them.

I have a feeling a lot of the Steam forum traffic is botted hence why posting anything and not catching a ban is a nightmare.

But I don't think it's China, or rather all China.
I do remember a Taiwan number 1 joke I made years back and every time someone got upset I moved China at a lower and lower ranking got massive replies (in case you are wondering Chine was move to the #70 or #80 by the end of the joke and the thread eventually got deleted)

The thing is 33.5% isn't just the USA, it's the entire english speaking world and Steam is the goto digital store for game purchases.
33.7% for China is surprising to me because yeah, China has around a billion people but as far as I understood Chinese usually prefer domestic storefronts through their tech sector or mobile style games, and steam is in a quasi legal state in China where it technically isn't approved and can get you in trouble if you buy a game that isn't legal in China, but it isn't outright banned and treated as a threat like Google, Facebook, or Twitter which have US military ties.

It seemed a bit surprising that they outnumber every English speaker for a service that is just kinda "meh" in popularity over there.
Then again, they do have a lot of people....

Originally posted by Masque:

OP that's "simplified"?

I can't imagine the complex version. Holy hieroglyphs, Batman! :amadeus_happy:

I don't speak Chinese. But if you are curious Google has a Traditional Chinese option so here is the Traditional Chinese Google slop translation....

正在觀看這個影片並被這個 2024 年的數據所震撼。
https://youtu.be/szyTmOACr-c?si=svO6HNYG9f44e1av&t=562
（是的，我知道這是另一個問題。我不是在談論那個問題，你可以更改設定來解決這個問題。我說的是我加了時間戳的圖表。）

我真的很驚訝，因為我以為 Steam 在中國沒什麼人氣，因為他們有龐大的手機遊戲市場和騰訊。
Steam 在中國很熱門嗎？還是說它沒什麼火爆，只是因為用戶太多？

真的很好奇。如果有人對此有任何見解，我真的很想知道。

我想我會偷懶地用谷歌翻譯一下簡體中文，希望翻譯出來的東西能讓人理解。

I have no clue what the difference between the simplified and traditional versions are.

yes? what is problem. large demographic also video game

Steam released a Chinese version a few years ago that they are legally allowed to use. it’s stripped of most community features to keep them from seeing things their government disagrees with. But they were also using it before that version released. All hail the great VPN

Gamers unite.

Valve’s laissez-faire attitude toward the Chinese is weird. They should make the Chinese use their own client. There's a reason it exists ...

mebbe the Chinese version of Steam has McEggrolls customized for their market

Chinese people outside of China likely use normal Steam in Chinese, Chinese people in China either use its neutered SteamChina client or use VPN

I'm guessing that data only applies to the original Steam, which makes it kind of crazy it's so neck and neck

Oh right, I forgot about the millions of bots. Those Chinese bots are everywhere

Originally posted by IGX:

Originally posted by HulaGirl86:

Is Steam a big deal in China or is it not a big deal they just have that many people?

Probably just bots. Lots of them.

No doubt spamming OT with political bait threads with an unhealthy obsession of US politics.