[quote=LeonardK][quote=BdMdesigN]

Quoting: poisond

Quoting: BdMdesigN

Market share by category
Desktop, laptop, netbook Dec 2014 1.34% (Ubuntu, etc.)

Net Applications say it's 1.34%.

And again: the Steam HWsurvey is wrrong and many have it also confirmed here.
So maybe only 50% or more of the all desktopusers (Linux, Mac, Windows) are gamer.

Thus, your statement is false as false.

And you are doing the same mistake.
Maybe a higher percentage of desktop users *on Windows* are gamers and a lower one on Linux?
Hm, this would maybe even lead to lower than 1%.

Yes, we cannot "proof" it's 1%. Maybe it's more - a bit. But irrelevantly more.

Did you understand how a survey works?

No.

Ok only for you:

Steam have actual ca. 6.200.000 users.

So steam aks now the 6.200.00 users in the HWsurvey.
Now all Windows clients get this poll but not all Linuxuser.

In such a survey, 100% are those who also participate in it and not the total 6,200,000 users.
And that is precisely the reason why this survey says nothing.

And we talk here from all Linux gamer, not Steam only gamer.

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Quoting: poisond

Quoting: BdMdesigNAs you still get to the 1%?
I and others have written often enough, that's are the 1% a fairy tale number is.

Even if you repeat the 1% here, a scattered lie is not true.

Where's the data to back up your silly claim? I don't think your hearsay is statistically significant.
According to web client usage [External Link] Linux has a market share of 27.2%, of which only 1.1% are GNU/Linux. So the 0.9% Linux users for Steam seem quite plausible.

I got the steam survey recently BTW, maybe I'm the +0.07% *snicker*

And you are wrong. Loool.

Did you read the "Statistics" right? No you did not.

Market share by category
Desktop, laptop, netbook Dec 2014 1.34% (Ubuntu, etc.)

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category [External Link] )

Net Applications say it's 1.34%.

And again: the Steam HWsurvey is wrrong and many have it also confirmed here.
So maybe only 50% or more of the all desktopusers (Linux, Mac, Windows) are gamer.

Thus, your statement is false as false.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: nocri...

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Yes, you made my day.

That's my point

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Quoting: TheRiddick...
Yes EA may not care atm, but within a year that %1 is likely to grow, hopefully larger then Mac.

As you still get to the 1%?
I and others have written often enough, that's are the 1% a fairy tale number is.

Even if you repeat the 1% here, a scattered lie is not true.

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Quoting: LeonardK

Quoting: BdMdesigNHow you can say the 1% Linux gamer are correct?

Maybe we have 15% linux gamer not steam gamer?

15% Linux gamers - no, definitely not. And most of them use steam, at least those who are in the target group of EA.
It might not be 1%. But it never is far more than 3%. And 3% - they say, I do not agree - is not enough for profiting.

I wouldnt say the numbers are wrong. I'd say it does not make any sense to run the numbers.

A Linux user hows play games on Linux is a linux gamer.
We have open source gamer and we have gamer how buys games.

And now don't say, if i play only open source games, thats i'm not are a linux gamer.

And i sayed maybe, not we have.
My point is that the 1% are incorrect. No matter what you do, the 1% remain false.

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[quote=EndeavourAccuracy]

Quoting: Bladeforce.../quote]
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Mr. Andersson points to the "Steam Hardware & Software Survey" for a reason, and he even spells it out: Linux users represent less than 1% of all Steam users.
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So did he?
You know this survey say nothing?
Did you know thats we speak from Linux Gaming and not from Steam Gaming?
Did you know thats ca 50% of the Linux gamer don't use steam? OK maybe its only 30%.

How you can say the 1% Linux gamer are correct?

Maybe we have 15% linux gamer not steam gamer?

Mr. Andersson use the steam HWsurvey to say: "Our games don't comes to linux"
He don't sayed " Our games don't comes to Steam 4 linux" or "Our games don't comes to SteamOS"

And i hear over 15 years thats Linux have only 1% user share.

This is not true.

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Quoting: ricki42

Quoting: BdMdesigN

Quoting: ricki42For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.

Yes of course, but use the Steam HWsurvey for a stament is poor.
Realy poor and nonsense, if you don't have Linux with steam 4 linux installed to see how much you get the survey.
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Do you see the irony?

Are you sure you replied to the right comment?
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Yes and i agree your statment.

But we must see the other side: EA use Stats in his statments.
The Guy from Frostbyte use the steam HWSurway in his statment.

And this is a reason, too why we don't get games from EA on Linux.

It's the 1% Stats Ghost, thats use this Companys as a reason why they don't port to linux.

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Quoting: X6205quote "less then 1% of the potential audience, even Mac (which we don't support) is more than 3x larger"

Dear Johan,
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You should say him it on twitter

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Quoting: MGOidThere is some things I want from EA, like the Crysis series and Mirror's Edge. But for most of you, THIS is why I want they showing up in Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhUO3QGeo0 [External Link]

Like it or not, EA is a giant in this industry, and will be very difficult see most people moving from Windows without EA and Ubisoft at our side too.

Game and graphics looks realy realy great. But not my genre ^^

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Quoting: ricki42For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.

Yes of course, but use the Steam HWsurvey for a stament is poor.
Realy poor and nonsense, if you don't have Linux with steam 4 linux installed to see how much you get the survey.

But i see it on windows, too.

I have my steam account since 17. October 2013 and i got 2 surveys on the native linux
client, one on wine and one on Windows native.

So i got 4 surveys in 2 years.
Do you see the irony?

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