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Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

(arstechnica.com)
433 points Sporktacular | 5 comments | 04 Aug 23 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.871s | 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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acomjean ◴[04 Aug 23 03:10 UTC] No.36995056[source]▶
The issue kinda is on Linux we’re playing windows games. There is significant work done by valve on that proton compatability layer, so a lot of people on Linux want to support that. Without that us Linux users have a lot harder time gaming.

There are some other launchers for epic games and gog (heroic game launcher I’ve used). It worked for me for a the couple games I tried (gloomhaven and disco elysium) but I’m using the proton wine I which I think was put out there by valve/steam.

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kristofferg ◴[04 Aug 23 04:15 UTC] No.36995414[source]▶
This I agree with. If the game developer can produce a Linux binary I am happy to buy on other stores (I prefer GOG). They usually do _not_ and I don’t want to spend time to wrap and configure windows apps to run on Linux. You can consider the 30% steam fee outsourcing the multi-platform “porting”.
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1. theshrike79 ◴[04 Aug 23 06:26 UTC] No.36996146[source]▶
Many gamedevs actually stopped building a specific Linux binary because the Proton compatibility version was so much faster and required almost zero effort from them =)
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2. zirgs ◴[04 Aug 23 06:37 UTC] No.36996225[source]▶
If 1% of your users generate 30% of your bug reports it makes sense to outsource the job to valve.
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3. xethos ◴[04 Aug 23 07:16 UTC] No.36996525[source]▶
~6% of users, 38% of bug reports, and:

> says that very few of those bugs were specific to Linux, being clear that "This 5.8% of players found 38% of all the bugs that affected everyone."

You're welcome.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/qeqn3b/despite_hav...

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4. kristofferg ◴[04 Aug 23 08:11 UTC] No.36996955{3}[source]▶
That is super interesting. Thanks for sharing! :) Turns out releasing a Linux version can probably, for small studios, substitute and/or support a QA team.
5. account42 ◴[04 Aug 23 11:13 UTC] No.36998318[source]▶
Not if most of those reported bugs alos affect the remaining users but were not reported.