[flohofwoe]

I wonder why the number of countries doesn't add up.

PSN is available in 73 out of 195 countries, while Steam is available everywhere.

Shouldn't that put the number of countries where the game isn't available anymore at 122 instead of 177?

(not that it matters much in practice of course)

[out_of_protocol]

> Valve says that Steam is avaible in 237 countries. there are territories that are considered countries by valve that arent recognized by the world as being their own separate country like Taiwan

From Google, 2017.

[DEADMINCE]

I'd be curious to see their list. They have almost 40 more countries than most agencies would consider to exist.

[skissane]

A lot of enterprises define “country” as “has its own ISO 3166-1 country code”. ISO 3166-1 includes 249 entries: sovereign states, their dependent territories, and “areas of special geographic interest” (e.g. Antarctica).

The English term “country” is ambiguous. In a narrow sense it means only sovereign states, but in a broader sense includes overseas territories and even some subnational divisions (e.g. the four countries that make up the UK)

[out_of_protocol]

List made by scraping account profiles (7 years ago):

https://github.com/RudeySH/SteamCountries/blob/master/json/c...

[xyst]

Why scrape profiles when steamcommunity offers a list of selectable countries in the profile edit page?

[out_of_protocol]

Well it doesn't for me. Just says you can contact support

[TiredOfLife]

Because a poor intern is forced to work weekend to fix the mess made by superiors