Quoting: TheRiddickThe back-order is likely 6+ months at this stage........

And the rest.

People who put their reservations in within the first hour have still got 4-5 months to wait till they get theirs. Then there's an additional eight months of people making reservations in the queue ahead of anyone that's only getting round to making their reservation today.

"6+ months" is really understating it.

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Additionally, could we please stop slapping a launcher on everything?

That definitely gets my vote.

Unfortunately, Valve seem to feel that they need to woo the big publishers, so they're barely recommending against interstitial launchers at all, and are merely offering tools in the hopes that publishers will choose of their own volition to reduce the jank.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: adibuyonoWonder how many titles noted as unplayable?

775 [External Link].

Do we have means to filter these (or get counts) by reason of being Unsupported?

You can tell SteamDB's filter to exclude any that are VR-only (although you still end up with some VR games in the filtered list) which is the majority of the Unsupported ones. But of the remainder there's generally just a non-specific "Valve are working on it" as the reason.

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Quoting: adibuyonoWonder how many titles noted as unplayable?

775 [External Link].

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Quoting: CatKillerBecause I like numbers:
65,237 [External Link]. Today.

Is that only games? How many of the total number are GNU+Linux native?

You could just click the link.

Yes, just games. Although the number's gone up to 65,240 in the time between my prior post and now.

9,705 of them are Linux-native.

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Because I like numbers:

Quoting: Purple Library GuyHow many games are in the Steam catalogue again?

65,237 [External Link]. Today.

And how many come out in a year these days?

11,862 [External Link] games were released in 2021. So a bit over 32 per day. And increasing.

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Quoting: GuestOn the other hand, this news isn't all that surprising, since Bungie is really just Microsoft Game Studios. It was one of the first companies that Xbox Game Studios bought.

Nope. Bungie bought themselves out in 2007. Then they went into a 10 year partnership with Activision, which they terminated early. They're currently in the process of being bought by Sony.

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Quoting: dubigrasuFunny thing now, I can't access the survey.

That happens when they're updating the results. It's often unavailable for several days.

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It looks interesting, so I've added it to my wishlist, but it's not supported on Linux, so I'll be waiting for a significant discount before buying it.

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Quoting: TrainDocCan Gears singleplayer be played offline? Curious for those who are interested, I'm just an observer when it comes to gears.

No idea; I just looked them up on SteamDB.

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