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50% of all Steam users in February were Chinese-speaking (www.eurogamer.net)
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Valve has released its latest Steam Hardware and Software Survey, which revealed a 20.88 percent increase in Simplified Chinese-speaking users in February 2025, making up half of the entire userbase.

As Automaton noted, February usually brings an increase of Chinese users to Steam as it coincides with Chinese New Year holidays. However, this year's increase was significantly higher than usual - 2024 saw an equivalent increase of 7.26 percent.

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[-] donuts@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

From elsewhere:

However, it seems that the latest Steam Hardware Survey results combined the numbers from both the international and China-only Steam clients. This is the most plausible explanation for this sudden jump in Chinese speakers on the platform, especially as Taiwan and Hong Kong use Traditional Chinese, which only accounts for 1.1% of Steam users.

Note that Eurogamer does not talk about this at all.

[-] Xenobiotic@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

Literally how Wukong's numbers got pumped up

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