Stats 💜
What's the time zone on
"Per Hour
The number of registered users that have been active each hour within our community."
Please
Or is it localised to the users?
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now we need to know how many bots are from these people
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You can estimate by looking at the data that the majority of bot activity is coming from Russia and Brazil.
As of 2024, the countries with the most internet users are:
China – Over 1 billion users
India – Around 900 million users
United States – About 335 million users
Despite much lower average populations, these regions have more "users" on SG than the US which has the 3rd most internet users in general in the world.
Here are the estimated populations for the countries you asked about, as of 2024:
Russia: 144 million
Brazil: 214 million
United States: 335 million
Related, you can notice that most accounts are levels 0 and 1.
So, someone wanting to make public giveaways, and have the highest chance of avoiding bots, should block the Russian and Brazil regions with a level requirement of 3 or higher.
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Wow, the number of Internet users in China is almost 10 times more than in Russia and Brazil and the number of Internet users in USA is more than in Russia and Brazil combined.
Meanwhile, Steam Users by Country 2024:
United States 13.7M
China 11.4M
Russia 9.5M
Brazil 4.9M
Your data is unrelated.
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I like the part where you intentionally omitted the US figure of 13.7M users.
I compared China, Russia and Brazil (as indicative extremums), so I showed statistics only of these countries. At the same time, giving a link where the data of 227 countries and territories are presented. Updated the message for you.
I can't beat the argument: too many users from a certain country = they are bots. It's too baseless. But as they say, what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
It looks like you have a strong dislike for some nationalities (or maybe it's just your butthurt replies vibe). Anyway, too much hate from you, bro. Just chill out and do some region restricted giveaway =)
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I can't say anything about Brazil, but these sites are blocked in Russia (well-known): Youtube, Discord, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, most VPNs, Tor (network), etc. To understand the scale:
At the request of Roskomnadzor, more than 885 thousand sites with information prohibited by law were blocked or deleted in Russia from January to June 2023
In addition, the number of blocked or deleted individual materials on the Internet has increased to 1.1 million, which is 10% more than in the whole of 2022, it is further noted.
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None of these sites are blocked in Brazil. X/Twitter is online but was blocked for than a month because a Brazilian citizen with an arrest in Brazil is on the run in the USA and he incited several people to expose data from federal police officers (an online translator can help on this) who investigated not only him but several individuals for invading federal government buildings and attempting a coup d'état in the country in 2023, for not accepting the election results, without ever presenting evidence. I think it sounds familiar with another case. And the problem is that these police officers not only received virtual threats, but also physical and in-person threats at their workplaces and in their homes.
The country's Supreme Court issued several warnings to the network, including mentioning several cases of disinformation in terms of politics, health, education, society and many other cases. X/Twitter itself had already respected court decisions in other countries, such as India, but decided to close its office in the country and not appoint a representative lawyer. So they were fined.
No company the size of X/Twitter can operate in the country without a representative lawyer, and needs to provide ways for institutions and citizens to report problems and situations that are in the civil and legal sphere. Otherwise, they cannot continue operating.
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I wouldn't be suprised if some these Brazilian/Russia users were just switched to cheaper region from days when they used it to buy games cheaper. It happend to me once that user used different region on sg, won EU key and couldn't activate game. I am not really sure what happened next as he wrote me he is now traveling by some other countries and when he was at like third or fourth, steam let him activate key. It was durring like 2 days.
Just for clarification: winner wasn't some cheater, he even played and enjoyed game he won from me. But it is probably possible using different region than your steam use.
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Steam goes by what countries IP range you use not where you actually physically live. There are a LOT of people who abuse vpn's to abuse the system. I think there is a gateway in place where a person has to wait a week or two between IP changes for it to actually take effect but this does little if anything.
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And you don't think people can use different currencies? Trust me I have talked to people that do this mate. But believe whatever you want.
Even in your own link...
"What if I move and want to change my store country to the new location?
If you have moved to a new place, or are living abroad for an extended period of time, you can update your Steam country setting when you complete your first purchase using a payment method from that country. If your location differs from your current Steam account store country setting you'll have an option to change your store country while you view your cart or as you complete your purchase. You will only have the option to change your store country once every 3 months."
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Obviously you are not but you live in your dream bubble. I dug around a bit more and apparently people just make multiple steam accounts using a VPN and currency which is easily obtainable via online sources to abuse this loophole. Maybe you are just not aware how to move around with your account the right way or never stayed somewhere more than 3 months. I don't know nor do I care, however it states in the very link you posted that you are in fact wrong. Go argue with steam, I'm done with you. Oh and since you are cute and posting the same diatribe over here:
"What if I move and want to change my store country to the new location?
If you have moved to a new place, or are living abroad for an extended period of time, you can update your Steam country setting when you complete your first purchase using a payment method from that country. If your location differs from your current Steam account store country setting you'll have an option to change your store country while you view your cart or as you complete your purchase. You will only have the option to change your store country once every 3 months."
Maybe you can figure it out. If steam finds these people out they get banned but I honestly don't think they care. Cheers.
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If you have moved to a new place, or are living abroad for an extended period of time, you can update your Steam country setting when you complete your first purchase using a payment method from that country.
This is the crucial line. I've moved to Peru three years ago, but my Steam is still German, because I do not have any peruvian payment methods connected. It ain't as easy as you seem to think it is.
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To set up an account in another country and use the currency? I wouldn't say it is difficult but you would have to have reason to do so and motivation. I'm honestly not going to waste my time digging into it as I have no desire to do it, there are far too many decent games that get bundled that people already own or just don't want and sell through third party sites for me to worry about it. I'm like 90% certain it can all be done online in a single day though. I mean broke basement dwellers are doing it all over the world so it can't be too hard. Also all the billionaires do it to try to hide their money from their governments.
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TL; DR: I don't know if it's possible in SG, but perhaps a human verification implementation (Recaptcha, etc.) could help alleviate this problem and not penalise so many players trying their luck here. Penalising large user bases that really try their luck to get a prize, especially because it is more difficult in their countries of origin, not only goes against the principle of generosity of this community but also proves to be quite segregationist.
Pardon, but do you really think your presumption about bots has a high degree of reliability? Couldn't this be a highly exclusionary - if not intolerant - way of dealing with people from these countries? Of course, bots with IPs from Brazil can probably be widely used, including by people from other countries, but this may be a slightly biased view and would exclude many Brazilians from being able to access games that they would hardly be able to access with their current financial conditions.
I'm Brazilian. 1 USD currently converts, on average, to 5.5 BRL. This without counting taxes and fees on exchange transactions. The current minimum wage in the country is 1,412 BRL, around 250 USD. The average per capita income is 1,848 BRL, close to 330 USD. It's a giant discrepancy. In this regard, GOG's pricing policy, for example, is often much less burdensome for Brazilians' pockets. The monthly Humble Bundle here costs a lot, even the cheapest package.
The new game DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO for PC costs 70 USD. In a direct exchange, without taxes, it would cost almost 400 BRL, a considerable amount. In Steam's pricing policy, it costs 280 BRL, but still, it's not cheap at all.
A basic food basket, which feeds an average of 4 people for up to 10 days, costs around 650 BRL, close to 116 USD. For 30 days, triple this amount. Apart from water, energy, internet and other fees, on average more than one minimum wage per month is spent on food in the country.
The overwhelming majority of the population cannot afford to have a gaming computer. So many play on more cost-effective PCs and laptops, which they often use to work and/or study, or get them from someone who donates them or even buy them second-hand. These people play games from time to time but only when they are sold for a large discount. However, in the case of many games, even 70% to 90% off can mean a very high price for players.
As the country is populous, the gaming community is large and has considerable access to the internet, although with possible limitations - many using connections with low mobile data allowances. These are people who watch livestreams and recorded gameplays to discover hidden gems and even stay up to date with the latest news. So often the opportunity for these people to play video games is precisely by trying their luck in promotions and sweepstakes. Even though they don't have computers that can run more demanding games, they dream of having them so that one day they can have access to better equipment and be able to have fun.
In the end, it is difficult for many to be able to advance much further than contribution level 1, especially because, in addition to being difficult to offer games with higher CV, it is not uncommon for these values to drop due to these titles having been offered within bundles.
Edit: typos and adding more context.
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You might need to take into account more data...
As of now there were 2391 active users from Russia according to new stats avaiable, and our local Russian SG server has 1258 users (not all of them are Russians, but it is already a good indicator of amount of Russian speaking people who active enough on SG to find a local SG community).
So while agree that there are a lot of bots, I'm kinda offended by such rhetoric, which simply labels people based on nationality without taking into account any other data. Bots issue is not a national based issue in no way.
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I think you're deliberately provoking people with your rudeness and overall behavior. But whatever, maybe you're not doing it out of malice, just born this way.
You voiced an opinion based on certain numbers, and I pointed out that your opinion is superficial and, to some extent, offensive.
Now you're ignoring the part of my message where I provided an example of statistics that highlight the ambiguity of your judgments. Instead of responding to that, you decided either to troll me or insult me...
You are stereotyping an entire nationality by the phrase "another Russian", dismissing individual perspective by focusing on my nationality rather than my argument, using mocking tone ("Oh, look") and deflecting your responsibility by claiming you have "no opinion on statistics" thereby refusing to engage meaningfully with the argument (Instead of addressing the merits of the discussion, you frame "the Russian guy response" as irrational or emotional).
That's a very clueless take on the status of IT Sec.
Clueless? Without offering substantial counterarguments it sounds more like an attempt for a personal attack from your side.
You managed to combine negative stereotyping, condescension, and a personal attack to dismiss the other person's argument without engaging meaningfully. In one short reply. Nice!
I think I made a mistake right from my first message - I really shouldn’t have bothered starting any discussion with you at all. Clearly, there’s no point in trying to have a dialogue.
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Looks like you missed out on the basic lesson that correlation does not imply causation.
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That's exactly the point raised in my statement. Yes, and I can see not-so-subtle flirtations with intolerance and xenophobia. But, look, what can you expect from privileged people who not only have no class consciousness, but are not even the slightest aware of their privileges, right? I am privileged, and I make a point of giving up many of my privileges to give space and a voice to so many people who are denied certain basic rights of citizenship and humanity.
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It's so nice to finally get some data on how many people are active at the same time and how many users actually bother to at least log once in a while.
It's interesting to know that Saturday is the least active day and that lvl 0 isn't the most active. Also I finally have confirmation that any given day there's more people here who speak English as a second language than those who are native.
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Also I finally have confirmation that any given day there's more people here who speak English as a second language than those who are native.
Statistically speaking (no pun intended) most of these users will never utter a word on SG though.
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I'm personally only bothered because they're supposedly visiting the site every few hours yet it takes them 3 or 4 days to notice they won something and to activate the key. If they were a bit more timely, or they also automated key redemption and marking the GA as received, I honestly wouldn't give a fuck about bots. It's not like I care that they didn't press the big green button themselves.
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They are in their secret underground hideout planning a coup.
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Glancing at the code for the add-on, I'm assuming it's breaking because of a change to outgoing Steam links. The regular expressions in the add-on are looking for a trailing slash that is no longer there. Search for each of the below lines in the code for the add-on...
var id = $ga_icon.attr("href").match(/https?:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/([^\/]*)\/([0-9]*)\//);
var type = $link.attr("href").match(/https?:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/([^\/]*)\/[0-9]*\//);
id = url.match(/https?:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/([^\/]*)\/([0-9]*)\//),
And replace them with these lines...
var id = $ga_icon.attr("href").match(/https?:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/([^\/]*)\/([0-9]*)/);
var type = $link.attr("href").match(/https?:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/([^\/]*)\/[0-9]*/);
id = url.match(/https?:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/([^\/]*)\/([0-9]*)/),
That should fix the issue, but I don't have the add-on installed, so I'm unable to verify.
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Go to your Userscript Manager. In my case it is violent monkey. Look for the "Do You Even Play, Bro?" userscript. Hover over the options near it and click the one which says edit. This will open a new tab. (Incase you have like a hundred userscripts installed, a quicker way is to just go to any Wins page and you will see that its active there.)
Again the following might differ based on your script manager. For ViolentMonkey right below the userscript title an option appears:
[Auto-updated script is read-only unless you disable updates or allow editing. ✅Allow update ✅ Allow edits (next update will overwrite them)]
Make sure you enable allow edits.
Now go to the code suggested in the comments here, copy each line that needs to be replaced and search for it (Ctrl+F) within the userscript window. Replace with the code suggested for the each line.
Make sure to Save/ Save and close on the top right of the userscript code window after you're done with it.
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People gonna say to make level 8 giveaways now to avoid any bots. There's more level 1's than level 0's, and there's more level 3s and 4s combined than level 1's. Up until level 8 the differences aren't big at all. Hopefully this provides some clarification and daily data to all the tin foil enjoyers.
Also the daily active users by country is kinda nuts too, considering how popular this is to Russians and Brazilians, but not to China, Canada or the UK , and to see Saturday not being a popular day is kinda strange too. Also strange to see Kazakhstan has about as many active users daily as Japan, like wat? Didn't even know they could game.
Thanks for the data :)
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I agree that it would be very weird if the 'per Country' distribution change drastically, but 'per Level' on the contrary, might.
There are approximately 28k active users every month, but only around 18k every day. Clearly, a huge chunk of monthly active users don't log in every day, and the number of users that log in every day (EDU) is surely much less than 18k because that missing 10k must spread across all the days in the given month. However, we don't know how often they log in (some may log in once a week, some twice a week, some just on weekdays, etc). So it might be 15k? 12k? 8k? 5k EDU users? 🤔 Hard to guess. But no matter what the number is, I'd bet that them having been always included in these daily 'per level' charts would impact the distribution (move it to the right) making it look like there are more higher-level users than lower-level ones.
So 'per Level' chart for the whole last month would probably look more like steady decrease from level to level, like in attached image. This i s assuming that higher-level users are more active than lower-level ones, which, of course, could be totally wrong like all other assumptions I made here 😄.
Anyway, it would be nice to see a chart showing how the levels of that 28k monthly active user base are distributed
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Here's the number of monthly active users per level.
Level | Users |
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0 | 6,677 |
1 | 6,593 |
2 | 2,424 |
3 | 2,813 |
4 | 3,722 |
5 | 2,322 |
6 | 1,622 |
7 | 1,015 |
8 | 362 |
9 | 317 |
10 | 276 |
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Didn't even know they could game.
Do you by any chance work at Square Enix?
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Haha alright I see how I fit xD, interesting. Maybe because they'd have to sell them at very low prices due to what some people make there and they realized some people would abuse that somehow to either buy really cheap and maybe sell at higher prices and decided just to region lock that area completely.
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Я просто хочу знать, чем руководствовался скворечник, когда запрещал казахам покупку шестнадцатой финалки
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There are level 10 bots. If you honestly believe there are not people using scripts to automatically join giveaways at this site then I think you are the one with tinfoil on your head. I mean I could even point you to url's with scripts built just for this site to do just such things with multiple thousands of downloads. Or you could learn how to use google and find this information for yourself. So what are those thousands of people doing with the scripts that only work for this website? I shall patiently await your well thought out reply.
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Didn't want to leave you in the dark where you've been your entire life. I never said there's no bots, all I'm saying until now people were saying this is where the thousands of bots were, in level 0 giveaways, so don't make level 0 giveaways. Then they blame it on public giveaways, then they find any excuse and reason, join my private group where only certified scammers are in, so no bots guaranteed. What I'm explaining is when CG posts this kind of data how off mark you all are ALWAYS and how quiet people are about the bots at level 0. Like where's masafor? This is when people should make an apology and instead say "ah shit, you know after all we got no clue where the bots are so we'll stop accusing level 0 giveaways for being full of bots", but hey I'll take their silence as close enough to that.
Also just to point out how delusional you are, I'll quote you for a sec: "I mean I could even point you to url's with scripts built just for this site to do just such things with multiple thousands of downloads. Or you could learn how to use google and find this information for yourself. So what are those thousands of people doing with the scripts that only work for this website? I shall patiently await your well thought out reply.". This site has over a million registered users if I'm correct, and yet just about 29000 active monthly users. Yet barely any giveaway goes over 2.5k entries with the exception of 50 count and more giveaways which still don't reach 10k entries. Even if we had 10k users join a giveaway, that's still 30% of the active users monthly on site and that would still include all real users too. So is there a lot of bots? There simply can't be that many, and the data would show it. Most giveaways get around 250-500-750 entries consistently, there's a higher likelihood that the bots are there counted with the real users, so once a giveaway goes into the 1.5k users, it just shows people's interest for that game and bots are out of the question at that point. Put your tinfoil back on, it fits you well.
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What brain? It's positive you don't have one. I take so long cause I'm lazy, I see your comment, and then I think, do I really want to reply to this dumbo right now, or do I wanna play this or that? Most of the time I wanna play something, or watch yt instead, or whatever else is worth my time atm more than educating some random on the internet. But I'm nice so I eventually get back to you or whoever. I'm certain you don't appreciate that cause you'd like to act like a monkey and have me forget about you just for you to feel smart or in the right, but I wont forget, I'm always coming back for you. I actually look over most threads just to see if there's anything interesting or see what people like or don't when I'm bored, so I'm here plenty, that and I own so many games it's kinda hard to find something to spend my points on, so I come to sg like 3-10 times a day to see if anything new gets posted, that's because some people post giveaways that end in 1 hour. Basically I got too much free time. I appreciate your accusation tho. Really makes my first sentence stand out. If you didn't know or didn't care, you wouldn't respond you rat. You obviously do, but your neurons aren't firing and you think you're funny or snarky or something.
You could've spent your time trying to argue against my point or those numbers, instead you did it to look like a trashcan. What a waste. See ya.
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Only weak thing you'll ever touch is yourself. Don't stress it doesn't get much dumber than you replying twice with useless nonsense just to say something. Go for a new record, go for 3 or 4 useless dumbass replies off track just for the sake of saying something. You should never go full ret*** but no one can stop you, not even yourself. Go ahead, have the last reply, you wont see another one from me as you derailed this to nowhere since you had nothing useful to say, so say whatever irrelevant garbage you want like you always will when you lose an argument, go all out, hit a new record low.
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You're a glutton for punishment aren't you? Or do you just like the sound of your own voice/look of your own text? Either way I can't say I care. I'm enjoying not reading anything you are so worked up about though. I'm going to do you a big favor and just pretend like you don't exist at this point. I can't imagine you add anything of value to existence.
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Japan is a "console country" as far as I know, PCs are relatively rare, so their representation on SG should mirror that.
Overall the user number is a really interesting stat regarding a country, that brings up some questions, with relatively few answers - like people from a country don't know about Steamgifts, don't know about bundles, don't really game on PC, or is piracy widespread?
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Right, it was meant to be two different thought processes for low user number for a country, I'll edit it a bit.
Japan is not really into PCs for gaming, so piracy should be negligible on the country level.
But with Hungary for example, PCs are quite common, but also piracy - so if people are less interested in winning a key for a game they could just download, they won't register on SG.
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🤔Umm?
It's a country where there are coterie magazine sales.
There are fewer restrictions on expression because those activities identify a segregation between gray areas and violations.
As a result, they have the information to avoid copyright violations, which is desirable.
It's just that...
There was a time when some game makers were double-pricing their products for both Japan and overseas markets.
Overseas, it is very cheap....For Japan, it is expensive.
Because of this kind of thing, there has been an increase in people buying Steam keys from overseas.
Also, because of the practice of implementing Japanese only on the Console board, there are times when the Console board of some overseas titles supports Japanese, but the Steam board does not.
And recently, the price of PS5 has skyrocketed, and there is a noticeable trend to update to PC, even if it is only Nintendo Switch, because some online games are several years behind the implementation of PC boards on the Console board.
It is more of a reason for the Japanese not to cheat....
“Japanese is not supported by the game's language list!”
And since Japanese language speakers are not that large in the world, they will not reach out to games that are not sold at the cost of Japanese language support.
Furthermore, because of the tendency to “thoroughly look for and point out the bad points of any good thing, not just games,” smart Japanese manufacturers will delay the sale of PC boards in Japan for a few days and fill them with review ratings from users outside of Japan before selling them to the Japanese market. They were so wary of reviews from Japan that they would delay sales of PC boards for a few days and fill them with reviews from users outside Japan before selling them to the Japanese market.
And there are probably only a few people who are scared of malware and viruses and are not willing to translate English and replace it with Japanese to get pirated copies because it's not worth it.
It is true that there was a time long ago when pirated copies flooded the market like the Winny incident, and there was a time when there were tons of indie games made in Japan, but there are many games that are buried inconspicuously in the history of foreign countries with few Japanese-only compatible games for Japan being translated into English and released It is a fact that there are many games that are buried inconspicuously in the history of foreign countries.
For the most part, when Japanese users play foreign games, they have a hard time deciding whether the Japanese version is easy or difficult to translate into Japanese.
In neighboring countries, where the total number of players is overwhelmingly large and piracy is high, they make translated patches, and although some of these patches can be processed into Japanese patches, they often have various things planted in them, so they cannot be used unless you are somewhat familiar with using a PC.
As a result, it seems that a large percentage of users play on smartphones or Nintendo switches, especially if they are Japanese without any major concerns.
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Thank you for the insight!
I read about older times, and how much it mattered in Japan that Nintendo and Sony are Japanese brands, that it shifted the market hugely. Not surprisingly, but it seems there are more recent additions to the situation, the local/geographical consequences are quite interesting ;)
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Countries where wages are low and money is scarce, where there is a dichotomy of rich and poor and where the common attitude is "Piracy is not a crime since only the rich can afford to buy it" tend to always have a large(r) user base at sites where something is free (or can be exploited to "stick it to the man").
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I imagined russians were numerous but Brazil slight(very slightly) ahead of US took me by surprise. Im Brazilian btw- without the stats i imagined south america all together would be like 4th or something- not only Brazils numbers alone surprised me but besides Brazil only Argentina shows up from SA... also wouldnt have guessed poland at 4th.
Given how global steam is i always tought sg had more non native english speakers - i mean thats sheer statistics, most of the world dont have english as first language- but i expected higher numbers from Canada and UK.
I wonder how those numbers may change on specific date ranges- for example i IMAGINE that near christmas with the event and all a bunch of less frequent users show up, so those proportions might change
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Now you understand where the bot accounts are coming from.
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Considering that Russia is only half of the US population I’m really surprised at the stats.
It seems to me that one of the reasons for the higher user activity or number of users from Russia (especially compared to the US) is simply that they are financially less well-off :) It make more sense for them to spend time here. Can say same about Brazil and some other countries.
Given so many games don’t even have Russian language support
While being Russian I don't care if game has Russian language. I even prefer to play some games in English since Russian translation, especially audio, can be way worse then original :)
most Russians who win games off me don’t say thanks
Most Russians who win games off me are saying thanks. But I made way more less giveaways then you, so my stats might be less accurate. I’m willing to admit that, theoretically, there are quite a few silent freeloaders among us.
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most Russians who win games off me don’t say thanks
They are honestly the worst offenders in my experience. I could understand if it was for public giveaways, but they’re pretty bad even in invite only threads and trains too. I’m not too bothered by it nowadays, as I just don’t do as many giveaways due to being financially less off than I used to be myself, but at one point I used to block all the Russians that I could find due to being so offended at this basic breach of etiquette 🫠
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Sorry to hear that! I'm definitely was luckier with own experience :/
but at one point I used to block all the Russians that I could find due to being so offended at this basic breach of etiquette 🫠
🫂 At some point I was in your boots, kinda. Wasn't trying to "filter" users by origin, but by the behaviour... In both my situation and yours, it’s just a fight against windmills... Unfortunately, the blacklist limits won’t be enough to solve it :(
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i noticed that too BUT i assign that to 2 factors: language and numbers.
Ive noticed less thanks/communitcation from non-us speaking countries- lots of people know english as second language or use translators but many dont.
The other part is... statistics. Now that we know theyre more common(then other countries) theyre likely the majority in many things- including no thanks.
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Thanks for the frequent Updates😊
Discord blocked in Russia and Turkey for spreading illegal content
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/discord-blocked-in-russia-and-turkey-for-spreading-illegal-content/
Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data-breach-impacts-31-million-users/
Recently, the Internet has been active in censorship and information thievery.
Maybe the time is near when each user can be contacted for his/her e-mail address but replace it with an important one, or when the provider and the winner can be contacted via SG without the need for an e-mail address.
The scariest thing is that it is a nightmare to think about what would happen if the codes that are supposed to be provided to SG winners were to be extracted by tramps trying to peek into the system.
I hope this update will give us a better idea of the atmosphere of users in active countries and a better way to do it...🤔
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If you use a decent password manager that wasn't hacked itself chances to decrypt a password hash consisting of twenty upper/lower case letters, numbers and symbols during your life time are smaller than you winning the lottery.
This guy explains it very well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGcUZQmDmA&ab_channel=SomeOrdinaryGamers
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Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-breached-again-through-stolen-access-tokens/
If you have not consulted the archive's support ticket after the first report, you are probably okay.🤔
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The threat actor says this GitLab configuration file contained an authentication token allowing them to download the Internet Archive source code.
The hacker says that this source code contained additional credentials and authentication tokens, including the credentials to Internet Archive's database management system. This allowed the threat actor to download the organization's user database, further source code, and modify the site.
The threat actor claimed to have stolen 7TB of data from the Internet Archive but would not share any samples as proof.
However, now we know that the stolen data also included the API access tokens for Internet Archive's Zendesk support system.
BleepingComputer attempted to contact the Internet Archive numerous times, as recently as on Friday, offering to share what we knew about how the breach occurred and why it was done, but we never received a response.
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Only the attacker, or the archive administrator, will know for sure.
However, given that the second attack was carried out through inadequate countermeasures, it is best to stay away from the site until it is deemed safe again.
It might be better to wait for a report from a security information website confirming that it is safe.
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I didn't know about internet archive being hacked. Soooooo, my data is again freely thrown around
Ok, whoever did it, fuck them. The internet archive does a lot of good for internet, storing and safekeeping a wealth of information from internet resources to books, news, footage, videos, music and other information, all freely available to the public. Besides, it's a non-profit organization. How can you go so low?
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There must be some bad people in the world.
The famous evil powers on earth will probably make everything that is bad for power and politics unreadable, and in the end, they will probably make their own names unreadable.
Burn heretical books! Burn the books that are inconvenient for those in power! Burn the books and ideas of the infidels, too! And so on.
History will be forgotten and repeated.
And maybe in this day and age, the Internet will disappear, eventually computers that can play games will disappear, and only military computing computers will continue to wage war after the human race has disappeared.
The tragedies and consequences that occurred after those events will probably be forgotten as we enter an era that calls our current lives busy.😈
It could be a book burning, or the Great Library of Alexandria, or any kind of religious scripture, but it could be a hellish event that happens every so often on earth.
I can think of many obscure words, but the only thing that is true is that I don't like the idea of this service being vandalized to the point where I want to bitch and whine about it endlessly. :( sad
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That's a good point, Kappa. They freely circulate books that have been banned by authoritarian regimes (and states) and they made a lot of enemies, some of them with lots of money and little scruples.
The publishing industry has recently won a lawsuit against them but they haven't managed to get them closed down and now this... the timing is suspicious.
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We are so few... and so many !! ^_^
Emotional rollercoaster !
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I am curious if it would be able implent some check into background for statistic of how much giveaways per minute does each such active account enter and force unlog it when it cross suspicious amount. But with that amount of users it would probably slowed site a lot.
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Nice start but imo, it would be more interesting to see active users based on ratios. To see how active users with 0.04 vs 0.4 ratio are, that would be funny. Or to see comments stats based on Ratios. But then again, Ratios haven't been introduced to SG yet.
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Guess it's time too leave this site for good. Too many russians here.
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Are you discriminating people because can't choose where are they born?
ffs..
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Based on that, it's okay to be racist then?
Like, where you given the choice to choose where are you born?
If it's a political subject, keep it on a political place, not a game gifting platform.
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So, when I'm on a game gifting platform I can't be killed? Good to know.
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You literally can't relate a game gifting platform to murders or politics.
Your comment is completly out of place and insane.
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Let me just point out the following:
If you guys keep derailing this topic you need to take a break. And with "you guys" I mean everyone who keeps engaging and further derailing the topic in a way that is against the rules.
If you see an issue, file a user report and don't insert yourself actively contributing to the escalation of an issue.
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Let me just point out the following:
If you guys keep derailing this topic you need to take a break. And with "you guys" I mean everyone who keeps engaging and further derailing the topic in a way that is against the rules.
If you see an issue, file a user report and don't insert yourself actively contributing to the escalation of an issue.
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I discriminate people for starting a war and killing innocents. And yes, they all elected their government, so they are all responsible. Nobody can choose where are they born, but everyone can choose where they LIVE.
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By your statement all Germans and Austrians are to be blamed for what Hitler did, making them directly related to the jewish genocide.
Good to know.
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As a German I don't see anything wrong with blaming our ancestors for what happened. With the exception of the those who opposed Hitler.
Likewise I also blame anyone voting for extreme nationalists and wannabe authoritarians today, no matter what their excuses are for doing so.
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That is the problem, this dude isn't blaming the direct responsables of the problem.
He is blaming anyone because of their nationality
How would you feel is someone labels you as a nazi just because you are from Germany despite not being involved in absolutely anything like that? You wern't even alive when the incident took place.
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How would you feel is someone labels you as a nazi just because you are from Germany despite not being involved in absolutely anything like that? You wern't even alive when the incident took place.
But Rudokhvist blames the people who are very much alive now, when the war happens. It's not going back 80 years, like your examples does.
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In that example im talking with other person.
In the case of the initial coment, yeah, he is blaming alive people just for the mere fact of being born in a specific location.
The point is that instead of blaming the person or persons that have the problem, he is just blaming everyone based simply on where are they born... That is something that you are born with, had no chance to choose or can't change despite what you try.
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Oh come on, I thought it's a well-known fact that Russia is NOT a democracy, and we don't have such a thing as fair elections (not to mention that even figures they draw are not 100%). Many of us had protested for many years long before 2022, but yeah, we don't anymore because few are brave enough to go to prison voluntarily, be tortured and deprived of medical care no matter what chronic diseases they have. Yes, that's wrong. But heroes are a rare thing.
And yes, of course, I do feel guilty as hell, but I still can't accept your view that trivialities like family, pets, health and financial issues don't matter at all when it comes to immigration.
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Hi everyone,
The stats page has been updated with information about active users (you'll need to be logged in to view the page). I started logging the data in August, so it's relatively new, but it does include some graphs that people might find interesting (e.g. how many users are active for any given contributor level).
There have been a few other changes to the site the past couple of days. You can find them in the change log.
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