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ezst036 It makes sense given that Linux usage in the Steam survey has gone way up recently. Reply
CelicaGT "Xbox already has a feature that tells you whether a game should play well on your device, but it’s not super accurate. For example, it says that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III “Should perform great on your device,” on a gaming laptop running an Intel Core i7-10870H paired with an RTX 3060 and 32GB of RAM. While this technically falls under the recommended specifications for the game, in my personal use it runs at a rather cinematic framerate and load times are atrocious, leading to a rather disappointing experience." Perfect sugercoat. Give this person a raise. Reply
LordVile ezst036 said: It makes sense given that Linux usage in the Steam survey has gone way up recently. You shouldn’t trust the hardware survey though. It’s a small sample controlled by valve who owns the most popular Linux gaming platform. It’s in their own interest to exaggerate the true number Reply
TerryLaze LordVile said: It’s in their own interest to exaggerate the true number How?! What do they possibly have to gain? They make all of their money by selling games through steam, it's completely irrelevant to them on what OS you are running steam on, you pay the exact same money for the games and they get the exact same cut. Reply
Ralston18 The more end users who believe or are led to believe that their system will successfully play any given game then the more of said games will be sold. Yes – the game may run but without some real, objective metrics to measure and compare performance then it all is a matter of marketing. And many manufacturers of many products test using ideal environments and circumstances to improve supposedly "objective" measurerments. Real world performance can be significantly lower… And such marketing is covered by fine print, caveats, broad and vague word meanings, etc.. Easy to skew collected data. Reply
LordVile TerryLaze said: How?! What do they possibly have to gain? They make all of their money by selling games through steam, it's completely irrelevant to them on what OS you are running steam on, you pay the exact same money for the games and they get the exact same cut. Promoting their own operating system to aid future hardware sales and data collection? So money is what they have to gain. Valve love their monopoly and do everything they can to maintain and strengthen it. Reply
TerryLaze Ralston18 said: The more end users who believe or are led to believe that their system will successfully play any given game then the more of said games will be sold. Yes – the game may run but without some real, objective metrics to measure and compare performance then it all is a matter of marketing. And many manufacturers of many products test using ideal environments and circumstances to improve supposedly "objective" measurerments. Real world performance can be significantly lower… And such marketing is covered by fine print, caveats, broad and vague word meanings, etc.. Easy to skew collected data. But they don't need linux/steamOS for that, also they have a play less than 2hour = money back guarantee NO MATTER WHAT the reason, if they lie about performance they will just get hit with more and more refunds. LordVile said: Promoting their own operating system to aid future hardware sales and data collection? So money is what they have to gain. Valve love their monopoly and do everything they can to maintain and strengthen it. So extra steps to do something less well that they already do much better and completer now………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Reply
LordVile TerryLaze said: But they don't need linux/steamOS for that, also they have a play less than 2hour = money back guarantee NO MATTER WHAT the reason, if they lie about performance they will just get hit with more and more refunds. So extra steps to do something less well that they already do much better and completer now………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. They kinda do becaure how else are they going to move hardware? They also don’t have granular control of the entire system just through the steam client and don’t have access to all the data they want to sell “share” with 3rd parties. Not really considering the lawsuits that are currently flooding in. They also can’t make money off of hardware that no one wants so inflating the user base numbers can lead to people thinking that it’s more prevalent (and supported) than it actually is. Reply
Ralston18 Google "Valve Steam refund complaints". Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/steam-starts-gathering-fps-data-with-latest-client-update-company-to-estimate-framerates-based-on-your-hardware-beta-feature-to-focus-on-steamos-devices#main
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