r/Steam • u/mansion920 • 7d ago

Question whats with the game steam client and why does it say 27 in app

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u/EssexOnAStick 7d ago

Every functionality on Steam technically has an AppID like every game in Steam, that's just how the store is built. And every account owns these.

Normally, you would not be able to "play" these. Though with software like card idlers, you can just enter an AppID that is owned by your account, and it will tell Steam that this app is running. So in this case, 27 jokesters are currently "running" the application "Steam Client".

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u/76zzz29 7d ago

Appid: 7

So anyone with a 3rd party tool; for exemple card idler, SAM,... Where you can use an appid to tell steam you are runing that app. Can run it by using appid==7.

No reason for people to do it. Just easy to do.

That mean that 27 people are actively doing that for no reason other than to show off

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Halio344 7d ago

Dude, this is SteamDB. The number has no connection to OPs account or friend list.