If I take my friendslist as an example I'm pretty sure that more than 5% of the total playtime is gathered by bots. Could be even 20%.or more, as there are some very extreme candidates with 1k hours in the past two weeks.
So I have literally no idea about the general situation.
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I think that's very much a "people who hang around places like SG"-type thing, rather than a general one. The vast majority of people I know have no idea that you even do such a thing as farm Steam cards, let alone how to do it.
I'd be very surprised if card farming even put a dent in those numbers. I am certain it's a very, very niche thing.
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There are a few mini-documentaries covering things like bots in Oldschool Runescape. You can legit make more money through botting in that game than you would make with an actual job in some countries by real-world trading for the money and items you gained through botting.
(P.S. HAPPY CAKE DAY!)
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Hard to tell how impactful bots are. I would say the vast majority of Steam users have 1 account and don't farm cards, but the 'few' people with bots could be running lots of bots (dozens? hundreds? thousands?)
Average streak is 9 days, and most bots are probably active 24/7 so I think they don't have a huge impact on the overall stats. I tried doing some math with the limited data available and, if I did the math right, it looks like there are less than 727,010 bots (assuming bots have 365 day streaks, and using peak concurrent users as a minimum total population with 1 day as the minimum streak.)
(botStreak(bots) + realStreak(totalPop-bots))/totalPop = 9
botStreak = 365, realStreak = 1, totalPop = 33,078,963
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Proof, if proof were needed, that it's truly an evergreen classic.
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I think the steam deck and the holidays really boosted that? My SD has got me playing more games in the last few months then I did in the last 3 years.
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Maybe a bit of a nothing burger, but I thought is was an interesting stat.
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