How is the birthday paradox being used incorrectly?
With 365 unique possible IDs, only 23 are needed to break the 50% chance threshold of new IDs colliding with an existing one. With 2.8 trillion unique possible IDs, only 1.7 million are needed to break the 50% chance threshold of new IDs colliding with an existing one.
It seems like an apples to apples comparison to me. Is it not?
First paragraph indicates that it's pulling from ProtonDB's list of games: