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... and Steam Linux percentage has fallen again.

Linux 0.89% -0.04%

*shrug*

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Quoting: tofuheadi updated my information, so one more xbox360 user here..

Same here. I had to choose between Xbox 360 and Steam Controller as the favorite one.
For the only game I'm playing with controller, Rocket League, I'm using the Xbox gamepad, so that is it...

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Quoting: Oktoras

Quoting: ElectricPrismOn and the steam controller batteries -- how the fuck are you supposed to pry those out of the wings without a knife & slashing your hand. Fuck those batteries hold super tight & never come out.

It is super easy to take out batteries - just press the little hinges to up, and batteries will pop out automatically?

Yes, there's basically a button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVJmHmtuAE [External Link]

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If they get enough cookies, they'lll not be able to move away from their computers anymore (due to... erm... bodily reasons), and will work on Linux ports all around the clock!

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That looks good! Put in in my follow list.

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Quoting: WorMzyLayers of Fear? :D

That's a good one. Doesn't make me panic, like Outlast, but still nice for Halloween.
Or Oxenfree?
SOMA... :)

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Quoting: GreenIs there a forum/thread somewhere about alternative options for valve to consider? I'm curious what solution people would like to have in place. Probably going to be a hard one if people don't want to increase the window of opportunity to play the game and developers getting payed later.

I'm not aware of any effective channel to Valve in the first place. There's a suggestions forum [External Link], but I didn't see any hint of them actually reading it. It seems like they're doing what they want, for good and for bad.

If we had any, I find it hard to come up with a better scheme that the interested parties might be happy with. Of course, Valve could hold back money until a key is actually used (or some expiration date), but developers and publishers would be up in arms against it. They want/need their money quick...

Maybe the money for sells to unknown systems could at least be split according to the known OS shares on Steam. A little improvement, but better than nothing.

PS: It feels like internet is the place where people state their opinos without really listening to other people. I hope I do that better, but you for sure do. Kudos.

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Quoting: GreenI see the problem that arrises when I'm not playing a game with a windows key shortly after purchasing it, but still feel its not my responsibility to repair faulty counting systems. The ones depending on it for their income or succes of their new OS should fix it. But thanks for the information, learned something new.

Trouble is, most parties involved seem to be happy with how it goes. Valve gets its money (and having some viable OS alternative at hands just in case seems to be enough for them), the resellers are getting their money, the original publishers and developers get their money, the gamers get their games for cheap. Say a game has been ported by Feral, they are the only interested party being unhappy with using key resellers - but they don't have the power to change anything about it. We, the Linux gamers, might be the only party who could try to make a (very small) difference.

I'm not saying people are bad if they don't. But I'd like people to at least think about it.

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Quoting: GreenNo we would not have been forgotten, they would notice there is something wrong with their metrics and adjust accordingly, but they don't need to, see my previous reply.

Unfortunately, the world cares more about money than about metrics. And, as shown, the money is already elsewhere when the metrics could be corrected in the world you imagine.

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