300 days played in 2 weeks?

[oshera_masook]

Hi im new to steam. I dont know why but ive been added by a strange account. Its name is (Klaatti) and it has hundreds of games on its account all with 17.3 hours played in the last 2 weeks. Does anybody know whats wrong with it and how it exists and what for? just curious thankyou.

https://imgur.com/gallery/RUFje67

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

they prob just want to play games with u <3

[oshera_masook]

ok i just thought the account having played 9000 hours in the last 2 week was strange. I know were in quarantine but id need too leave the house at least once while playing for over 300 days in 2 weeks.

[J4MESOX4D]

The user is multi-idling many games at once for some reason. You could run 10 games at once for 10 hours in a day and it'll show in 24 hours you've played 100 hours for instance.

[oshera_masook]

ahh ok. seams strange too me is all.

[happy]

He is idling hours, i could go into details what it means, but theres no point, he is basically faking playing games.

That being said, since your new to steam, its good that your careful. Dont open yourself up to scamming, when something is weird, like people adding you, better safe than sorry, just ask.

Also, a general rule, no person affiliated with Valve or Steam will ever add you. Theres alot of people posing as Steam Moderators, adding people to scam their skins, its fake, dont fall for it.

[oshera_masook]

Thankyou. Didnt know people got scammed on steam. I suppose there everywhere.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by oshera_masook:

Thankyou. Didnt know people got scammed on steam. I suppose there everywhere.

People have items, so naturally other people will want them. Most scams are through non-Steam sites where they ask you to log in with the Steam login, so you get phished. They then get into your account.

[crunchyfrog]

It seems strange but there's a couple of things you should bear in mind.

For a start. I get random friends requests all the time, and I accept them. Don't be afraid of them, as long as you don't do dumb stuff like click on external links or fall for appeal to greed (like offers of money for some of your stuff) you'll be fine. You can always unfriend them if they turn out to be wrong uns.

As far as the playtime goes, it's probably like James points out - they're idling various games to earn cards (as Steam cards work this way). So accruing a ridiculous playtime is possible.

Lastly, I wouldn't use the playtime as ANY metric of use anyway, as it's woefully buggy. I've got a similarly large number of games on here, a lot from indie bundles and so on. Many of them I've just installed and ran once just to see if they work, so the playtime should be just a few minutes, but some of them are in hours.

It's wonky as hell, so don't trust it for anything.


As far as a heads-up for scamming, consider this simple rule for life on the whole - if it has value to someone, there WILL be scammers for it.

[oshera_masook]

well crunchfrog u seam like a good un so u have a good day.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by oshera_masook:

well crunchfrog u seam like a good un so u have a good day.

Not a problem. I believe in explaining things as fully as possible.

[oshera_masook]

as u have all helped me with my question and i have got my answer. am i supposed too lock this post or something now so it doesn't bother people on the main page anymore?

[v3]

that s nice he want to be friends

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Originally posted by 𝓝𝓸𝓑𝓸𝓭𝓨♛♥:

that s nice he want to be friends

yes <#3

[happy]

Originally posted by oshera_masook:

as u have all helped me with my question and i have got my answer. am i supposed too lock this post or something now so it doesn't bother people on the main page anymore?

It doesnt matter, if you want, you can ask a Moderator to close this, but it shouldnt be needed, unless your bothered by people talking in here.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by oshera_masook:

as u have all helped me with my question and i have got my answer. am i supposed too lock this post or something now so it doesn't bother people on the main page anymore?

No need.

A moderator will lock it if people keep posting and it gets silly, but you don't NEED to do anything.

I appreciate your nice sentiments though. I think you'll get on fine here.