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SteamDB chart showing 1.4 million people playing now

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[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

How many of those 1.5 million are from China?

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Does it matter? The scale of population makes US literally irrelevant in this conversation.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ah, yes. The two countries of the world. China, and the US.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's where most of the gaming population of the world is innit? Excluding China, if a game doesn't have a playerbase in the US it's very unlikely to chart on Steam and is therefore unlikely to be "popular". Only exceptions are games like Football Manager and they are not the norm.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

Shit Americans Say. lol