I consider 2% a very low jitter considering the lot of new participants, and you surely don't need (or should) report all declines or raises of such a low percentage. You could try to promote this on the Steam forum for Linux. Perhaps not for the one for SteamOS, not sure.

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Quoting: Maquis196Thought we was all supposed to buy the games at full price to help linux gaming ;)

I have sinned as well, brother.

Quoting: Maquis196I nearly bought The last Federation but I'll wait until its full price since im so convinced ill enjoy it.

:)

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Quoting: DrMcCoyWell, I'm broke, so I got a whole bag of nothing. :)

With 975 games, I guess you're not out of stuff to play? ;o)

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Quoting: linuxgamerI have picked CS:GO. Unfortunately I missed that >75% sale last spring but at least i got some cents off compared to gift trade and made a "pure Linux purchase" (wonder if that is counted in any way).

Is that sale supposedto be a teaser, or is winter coming early to Valve?

Thanksgiving sale should not hinder them to do a decent winter/christmas sale nevertheless. :)

I picked "The Fall". Didn't feel sure enough for full price.

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Quoting: edgleyI have pretty much everything on sale =/

It's over 600 games for Linux alone...!

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Quoting: amckinnonI don't believe it is all about what we can do as Linux gamers. Sure, I agree we should not be buying and playing games that do not have a native Linux version but any developer who complains about not making enough from Linux sales should have foreseen that when they already had a Windows version released.

If a developer wants to make sure their game is going to bring in the money from Linux, they need to make their games cross platform right from the start instead of focusing on Windows only programming then a year later convert the game so it can run on Linux.

The potential porters of Frozen synapse Prime said they thought the same, tried it and it didn't work out for them...

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Quoting: HyeronAnd I have mostly met douchebags.

I think it's more like with oil and water.
One drop of troll spoils a hundred litres of well-behaving people...

Which isn't stated in the article. That one was more of a pointer for your next submission, which you're free to take into account or not. :D

In fact I'm poundering a bad example. Let's see. :o)

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Quoting: Hyeron

Again, I'm not asking you to give up your customer rights. I'm asking you to do what Linux gamers are expected to do well; be tech-savy, friendly people who help each other.

Erm... Nope. Or we haven't been seeing the same Linux users.

I wouldn't have written this plea if I wouldn't have met these other Linuxers...

There's been some bad news about Linux games lately like Super Win the Game which sold only fifty copies for Linux and hasn't been worth the cost, "financially and emotionally", to support the platform.

And about what? 700 for Windows? Please.

The main point of this example is not "financially", but "emotionally". I didn't have a second look at this game, it's not my cup of tea. I'm not to judge if it's worth selling more than a thousand copies. But if some of us make Linux support emotionally draining - and some obviously do - this should end. Which reminds me of the example I forgot and which would have been much better for the emotional/politeness part: The Stanley Parable.

There ARE such things as bad games, even on Steam.

There are, and we shouldn't buy and shouldn't praise them.

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Quoting: pbI think the biggest problem for companies are customers that are running unsupported distros and/or on unsupported hardware.

I liked the way, erm... Feral or Aspyr, can't remember, does it. They're always saying if a distro is not supported, but they are still gathering all problems and solutions for those and often can help people although they're not officially supporting their platform. But if someone would call for full support or refund or something, they can always say this setup not supported.

Quoting: linuxgamerThat should be a problem of Nvidia/AMD if there are any issues. Valve showed that the linux performance doesnt have to be worse than Window's.

People don't think that way. They won't go the Nvidia or AMD complaining, but to the game makers where they paid their 5 bucks. In the end, people cannot even judge whose fault it really is. So the graphics drivers' problems will result in game makers problems.

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The artice says: "The veritable steam behind the Machines weakened as the year wore on". So true. I didn't hear anything about it for quite some time and am happy there's at least some news now...

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