How come every 3rd account in steam has the location of japan

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Himmel 26 Aug @ 5:51pm

a lot of people aren't even from japan yet they keep their location in steam profile japan which is so misleading and one day a person In my steam account had japan osaka in its location I chat with him in japanese and he was from Germany

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce 26 Aug @ 6:07pm

The location setting on the profile can be wherever the user wants to be, even Antarctica.

Maybe they like Japanese culture...?

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Himmel 26 Aug @ 7:16pm

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
The location setting on the profile can be wherever the user wants to be, even Antarctica.

Maybe they like Japanese culture...?

:nkCool:

that's the point almost every account I see have their location set to japan

Mad Scientist 26 Aug @ 7:26pm

Originally posted by Mita:
Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:
The location setting on the profile can be wherever the user wants to be, even Antarctica.

Maybe they like Japanese culture...?

:nkCool:
that's the point almost every account I see have their location set to japan

And?
Since anyone can set it to anything, and some games may have individuals more likely to be from somewhere, or playing certain types of games, this seems possible. Regardless of them actually living there or not, for the areas I visit and the accounts I look at, almost none are set to Japan. Your experience may reflect the areas you browse in the community.

If you went into the french section, you'd not likely see very many from or set to japan. Similar to the russian and german section.

Himmel 26 Aug @ 8:10pm

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:
Originally posted by Mita:
that's the point almost every account I see have their location set to japan
And?
Since anyone can set it to anything, and some games may have individuals more likely to be from somewhere, or playing certain types of games, this seems possible. Regardless of them actually living there or not, for the areas I visit and the accounts I look at, almost none are set to Japan. Your experience may reflect the areas you browse in the community.

If you went into the french section, you'd not likely see very many from or set to japan. Similar to the russian and german section.

that is very true in steam I have hard time talking to someone in japanese since I don't know if the person I am talking to is even belong to japan