To get the correct reading you need to filter by Games only, and by Release Date. The default sorting option "Relevance" includes all games on Linux now, and games yet to come out. This took no time at all to figure out, I simply clicked the last page in the list to see games not yet available.

I always used the "Relevance" sorting for getting the numbers as well, and it used to be only slightly off from the "Date" sorting.
I wonder what has changed...

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Quoting: GuestBut for some reason it’s exactly the opposite that happens… Reviews with no information get upvoted, and informative reviews often get downvoted.

I wonder if some people give thorough reviews a "TL;DR" downvote.

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I'm already getting over 1900 (1904 + at least 4 games not available in my country) today
- anybody knows what happened? A truckload of shovelware? Or of oldies?

Edit: Hm... The difference between the number of games shown when sorted by relevance and the number shown when sorted by date also seems to have increased, it's 90 now and AFAIR it used to be less than a dozen.

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Quoting: scaineI disagree. That would just be positive reinforcment. I like how this site shows the good and bad in a (mostly) neutral light. I say mostly, because there are occasional editorials, and that's what editorials are for. Opinion.

+1

About this developer: Fortunately, he didn't make a game I care for. If he would, he wouldn't get my money neither if he doesn't port.

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We can play Divinity: Original Sin in the meantime. :D

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Quoting: KristianThe thing I am most worried about with Vulkan will be if Apple doesn't support it. If you have to use Metal and/or OpenGL(ES) for Mac OSX and/or iOS that may keep developers from supporting Vulkan. If that happens then Vulkan is only left with Windows, Linux and Android as platforms. For games without tablet/phone versions that only leaves Windows and Linux.

If you have a Xbox One version using some variant of DX then you are probably going to it for your Windows version as well. Then you might end up dropping Linux support because you can't be bothered to write a Vulkan backend "just" for Linux. The best case scenario for Vulkan is if BOTH Apple(for both their OSes) AND Sony support end up supporting it. Am I totally wrong?

I don't think Mac or Linux are major players in this game. The only help against you scenario, which I find plausible, could be Playstation..

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Quoting: wojtek88I was thinking that my rig was not good enough for SS3 so I assumed I will be able to play it after hardware upgrade. Was the game playable for someone?

Serious Sam 3 and Talos Principle run great on my Intel quad core & GTX 660.

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Quoting: DonkeyMaybe there could be two kinds of surveys. One full version every second month (like we have now) and a smaller and quicker version for the rest. The small version could remove all the boring questions like desktop, gpu, drivers and then spice things up by adding a few more of the interesting questions (new ones each time).

I want to second this. The "standard" question may be put even less frequent IMHO, while I'm all interested in many of the special questions.

I feel the survey is quite Linux centric and not so gaming/SteamOS centric. Maybe interests have shifted in the last years? I'm much more interested in hearing how many people are using the Steam Controller e. g. than how many are using which DE...

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Quoting: tuubiPersonally I'm not going to touch this one. I did enjoy (some of) these classics back in the day, but the simplistic arcade gameplay just isn't my idea of fun anymore.

The best thing you can do to most legendary classic games is keeping them in sweet memory,
the worst thing is to actually play them again.

One of the very few exceptions for me was Metal Gear I & II on MSX.

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I think this is seriously important.
I did not expect many games to use Vulkan, even less to announce this that early.
Good sign that is.

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