this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
864 points (99.2% liked)

Steam

12288 readers
1 users here now

Steam is a video game digital distribution service by Valve.

Steam News | Steam Beta Client news

Useful tools:
SteamDB
SteamCharts
Issue tracker for Linux version of Steam

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The censored one is probably Niger

UPDATE - special thanks to @dditty@lemm.ee for making a map showing the countries without access to PSN:

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~One RUMOR I've heard is so it looks like more people are registering with PSN, to make up for loss of PS sales?~~ Doesn't make the most sense, but I'm sure its a mixture of that and your data $$$

Edit: I'm sure they are using the increase of accounts to make theirs elves look more favorable. All around, it's shitty, and helldivers will suffer for it. Steam has already allowed refunds from countries that can no longer play.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be pretty obvious fraud, I doubt that.

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which part? I'm sure it would be fraud to pad their numbers that way. Unless they used a seperate metric which looked favorable to shareholders since number of accounts goes up.

The data part I don't think you meant to cast doubt on, thats a given.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant padding their numbers like that yes.