Thankfully I don't do any of those. Used to do the "buying early", but was entirely humble bundle games (which I no longer buy). I personally think that's the worst one for Linux gaming, but the pre-order one is probably the worst for the industry as a whole.

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Quoting: maodzedunI chuckled a bit when you said Crusader Kings II overwhelmed you. I used to think the same thing. Having finally finished a full playthrough of EUIV last night, I'm actually thinking - CKII was kind of simplistic :D

It all depends on how many expansions you have as well, but EU4 is more complicated IMO.

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Bought this today but since I'm in the middle of moving house, won't have time to play it for another week maybe :(. Looks sooo good though, can't wait!

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This was top of my list in the "games you're looking forward to playing" so yay :)

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Great idea!

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Grand Ages: Medieval
Banished
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

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I had this cooler for just under a year, but started to get really noisy and temperatures were rising. It wasn't really the fault of the cooler, more the fact that it barely squeezed in the HTPC case which got bumped around a bit when I took it on trains and planes, the poor little fan absorbed most of it. The cooler was really good though, shaved a lot of temp and noise off the stock cooler and can't really argue with the price.

I ended up replacing it with the Hyper 212 Evo, which is also awesome value for money (at the next price point up), but pretty huge in size.

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Quoting: WorMzyThe problem with 'how much did you spend' is that there lots of different currencies, and regional pricing differences, which would make it difficult to answer, and to gleam any sort of insight from the responses.

Unless you have a two-part question: 'What currency do you use? How much did you spend?'. Then the results could be collated by currency.

That's another issue as well, and one which I wouldn't really be prepared to resolve, the time could be spent improving other aspects of the survey and not ensuring we have the correct FOREX figures every month. It would be more straightforward to ask the respondent to convert to USD themselves, but I don't know how many people would actually bother filling out the survey if it meant digging into receipts, calculating how much they spent every month and then converting it to another currency.

In theory it's a nice idea and it would be a great statistic to have, but considering we can already get insights into how many games people are buying and also get an idea of how much through the retailers question, it really doesn't seem worth it, especially considering that there's no guarantee that the results we get would be accurate at all.

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Quoting: Tux1cJust a small remark on the "how many games did u buy last month" question. Just to show how much of a not accurate question it is (although I doubt there are so many people that failed as hard as I did!), I completely forgot that I had actually bought 7 linux games the last month (yes, 7!), I forgot because, although I keep my finance tightly organised (in my head), and remember everything I bought, for how much and when, those purchases were as a debt-payback from a friend, so it completely slipped my mind >< (I answered that I bought no games, and when I realised my mistake I figured it would be unfair to answer again).

I kind of alluded to this in the article as well. Some people will over-estimate and some will under-estimate - there's not much we can do about that. But what the survey does very well in this case is show us trends, like whether people are buying more or less games as whole over time.

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I'll just address everything in one massive post:

Quoting: Sabun

Quoting: edve98Wouldn't it be better to ask how much people spent on Linux games rather than asking how many games they bought?

Why not both?

Yeah, I was actually going to comment on that in the article (or maybe I did in last month's one?). Both types of questions have their advantages and disadvantages. I'll think about adding it in for the October survey... For now you can get an idea of how much is being spent if you look at the retailers question: less purchases from bundles would, generally speaking, mean more money being spent per game.

Quoting: NouserThere are proprietary Intel drivers?

This has been a recurring joke every month, but since *buntu 15.04, there is actually an option to install proprietary updates for Intel and AMD CPUs, so could be that. It's most likely just miss-clicks though.

Quoting: NelHi,

Is this possible to display graphics in the right order?

I mean when there are answers as "Yes > Rather Yes > Neutral > Rather No > No", they always are displayed mixed up (most votes first) leading to useless graphics.

How I think it should be:
Q3 = No, i don't have Windows partition > No > Yes (join both "No" answers with "No Windows at all" on end)
Q8 = Nvidia > AMD > AMD integrated > Intel (join both "AMD" answers)
Q9 = Proprietary > Don't know > Open Source ("don't know" could be one or the other)
Q12 = None > 1-2 > 3-5 > 6-10 > 11+
UQ2 = No plans to buy > Will buy if > Planning to buy > Already bought

Yeah, you're right. That's how it's actually displayed in the survey itself, but the little program Feds wrote up to generate the graphs seems to order them by popularity (which makes sense on some questions, but not on others). I'll let him know about it. He's also looking at doing tables to go along with the graphs, which would make that issue a bit more redundant anyway (hopefully that should be here next month, but no guarantee).

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