Quoting: liamdaweIt's just at a random time when you are logged in.

It happens at the start of the month (though it's possible that users selected to participate who don't log in until later in the month may not see the prompt until then). Users are selected at random to participate. The sample size is unknown, and there have previously been bugs with the sampling process.

I've attempted to keep track of details in the Steam forums [External Link].

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I have been hanging out for this for ages! Time for me to get poorer!

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For anybody who's interest, I transcribed the interview [External Link] I did with Ron Gilbert. We didn't talk about Linux directly much, but he did mention that it was probably too early to get a feel for how many people are playing The Cave under Linux.

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I'm pretty happy to have been a part of this :)

(the crowdfunding campaign, not the article editing)

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Neat!

I have to say, Hard Times is doing a good job of making me feel dumb. Thank you :D

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Quoting: berarmaThere's a comment from Puppy Games staying the same stats results.

Not to mention the first year of Amnesia stats [External Link] which listed Linux users as being responsible for 15% of sales on their site, or the Humble revenue aggregated across all bundles [External Link], which puts Linux as providing 12% - 14% of revenue share.

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They're not kidding when they say it's challenging :D

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I think an important aspect mentioned in the original article is that this is an Adobe Air title - something that's offputting for many Linux users.

The original article reveals (or tries to reveal) something very interesting about Steam stats as well. Lars seems to be saying that his email from Valve indicates that a user's platform is set forever by their playtime for the first week (either that, or it shifts weekly, but that would undermine the interpretation of this data as "sales").

So far as I can tell, Defender's Quest was released for Linux at the same time as other platforms as well, so they've never had to deal with Linux users buying Windows licences to play under Wine (something that I believe will cloud the sales stats for other games which had later Linux ports).

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I'm very much looking forward to check this out.

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Quoting: AnonymousJust paid it, and the answer is no, at least no link to it on the download page of the humble bundle. But well, I prefere pay it on the humble page than on steam because of the DRM free anyway

Yeah, I ended up just buying it again.

It's nice when developers offer everything together in one place, but at least there are options for whichever people prefer.

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