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GOL SteamOS & Linux Survey results for February

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Here are the latest results from the monthly GOL survey. Wait, you already did February? Previously we were showing the results as the month we presented results, which was wrong (last months posted was amended).

Since the questions you answer are for the month before, going forward I will name the correct month in the article title that the results correlate to. So, I'm announcing these in March (and previously we would say "survey results for March"), but the questions were all about February, hope that makes sense. If it doesn't let me know.

Some new questions this month which will continue into other months, as requested.

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A good solid response this month, which makes the graphs look pretty good and accurate compared to last month.

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Still quite a lot of people use Wine, and it's not surprising since there's still a vast amount of games we don't have. Hopefully as more games get ported this will go down.

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I would like to thank Feds once again for doing the graphs for us. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Ivancillo Mar 20, 2016
QuoteWow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.

December is Chritsmas' sale month.
nullzero Mar 20, 2016
Open data request:

Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?

Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.

> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -

Cheers!
nullzero Mar 20, 2016
Quoting: lucifertdarkWow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.

And another thing too: beginning of January a new "Didn't buy a game" option appeared which affected negatively all other stores buy trend.
Liam Dawe Mar 20, 2016
Quoting: nullzeroOpen data request:

Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?

Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.

> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -

Cheers!
I can look up posting a link to the survey data, since we don't take any personal indentifiers what so ever I have no problem with it.
Liam Dawe Mar 20, 2016
Okay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv


Last edited by Liam Dawe on 20 March 2016 at 6:22 pm UTC
Armand Raynal Mar 20, 2016
Quoting: nullzeroOpen data request:

Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?

Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.

> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -

Cheers!

I wonder what is more interesting in life than sociology :D
Thanks for sharing, love the analysis part.
nullzero Mar 20, 2016
Quoting: TheBossOkay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv

Thanks! :)

By the way I see it has a Timestamp in the "2016/03/01 11:54:21 AM GMT" format, so one could figure out a trend of survey completion from 2016/03/1 until 2016/03/14 .

I was also hyped in trying to you see what happens to this trend after the news is spread out in reddit, but there is only "this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2016" without the exact hour :(

EDIT: found on Google that if you hover the post date it tells the exact day and time. So 1456858580.0 -> "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:56:20 GMT"

> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/48fwj0/new_linux_steamos_gamer_survey_for_march/

EDIT: how and besides being called golsurveyfebresults.csv it is actually this months march one :)


Last edited by nullzero on 20 March 2016 at 10:32 pm UTC
Crazy Penguin Mar 20, 2016
QuoteStill quite a lot of people use Wine, and it's not surprising since there's still a vast amount of games we don't have. Hopefully as more games get ported this will go down.
Doubt that! As I'm using Wine to play older which are very unlikely to be ported.

Quoting: Pit
Quoting: AnxiousInfusion
Quoting: lucifertdarkWow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.

It looks like Humble picked up most of the slack. Linux gamers are just more savvy about DRM-free.

Those that prefer DRM-free rather go to GOG nowadays, Humble isn't first-class on that anymore. Sad, but true...
Humble has become another cheap Steamkey-Reseller and had some nice bundles over last month. So I'm not surprised that Humble went up.

The problem with GOG is that it misses lots of native Linux Builds which are available elsewhere e.g. on Steam for a longer time already. Then they have to improve their Linux support. I'm kinda surprised that this "joke" of Client hasn't been ported yet. Sorry, but my support for GOG has dropped to almost zero.
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