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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

(arstechnica.com)
433 points Sporktacular | 1 comments | 04 Aug 23 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.25s | source
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mkatx ◴[04 Aug 23 02:03 UTC] No.36994570[source]▶
Steam gets all my gaming budget, as I really try to stick to Linux.

If it ain't on steam, I don't play it, and they don't get my money.

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andrewmcwatters ◴[04 Aug 23 02:21 UTC] No.36994692[source]▶
It’s sad to me that you and many others have this opinion, which is fine, but Valve takes a significant tax from small companies while gamers, a cheap demographic, complain about the price of games.

Games don’t need to be on Steam to be good.

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1. peatmoss ◴[04 Aug 23 03:21 UTC] No.36995122[source]▶
And yet the developers do not have to pay the tax to use Valve’s roads. But if those developers choose to do so, they may get my business, which they otherwise were not likely to.