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General DiscussionHow does Valve determine unique players?

How does Valve determine unique players? in General Discussion
Grimorum

    Me and my brother uses two separate computers, but we share one router.

    Socram

      Well, by Steam ID?
      Multiple Steam Accounts should be able to share a single outgoing (router) IP address.

      pizdec

        they dont

        Vaikiss`742.

          everyone is fag

          Sōu ka

            terms of service of steam only allows people to have 1 account
            it's neither practicable nor efficient to use a system detecting multi accounting based on IPs or anything else

            obviously the number of players is inflated by multi accounting but that goes for every game or website where it might be/seem beneficial to have multiple accounts
            and since many smurf accounts get abandoned after a while you should get a quite decent number when you only look at the monthly players