Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThe "survey" file (which indicates the date the survey was last supposedly run) seems to think that three of the different computers running various versions of Ubuntu in our house and used by different people have all had the survey in the last twelve months, when in reality, none of us have... That would be Valve Software claiming to query me, when it has not in fact done so.

I too had no idea this existed. That raises whole shitloads of questions. For instance, does Steam look at the survey file before it decides to give you the survey? So like, if it shows a recent survey in that file it won't give you one? Or conversely, if it shows no recent survey it's more likely to? Is the file vulnerable to hacking? Is Microsoft, or somebody, doing so? And of course the basic, "So why is this file wrong in your case and how many people is that true for and what else about the survey is fucked up?"

Suddenly I have far less faith in the Steam survey numbers . . . and I had little to start with so I must be getting into the negatives at this point.

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Quoting: GuestSuper Mega Baseball 2 should be on the list. I have played several games with and without mods at lowest to highest settings and it works great without having to do anything.

Looking at your avatar I'm presuming you lost horribly. ;)

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Quoting: EikeHow often have you been asked which party you're going to vote for lately? Still, there's quite accurate data about voting estimations.

I beg to differ, because the voting polls often vary wildly from company to company (that conducts the polls)(in Australia at least)... They are a rough guide at best - but they also do not claim that I have participated when I have not.

Polling seems to have gotten a lot worse over the last decade or two. Seems to have been a combination of overuse and the internet. Overuse, doing lots and lots of polls for more and more trivial reasons, or on elections trying for more and more frequent polls, "rolling" polls and so on, all give strong incentives to do it on the cheap, with less attention to randomization for instance. And the internet furnishes a way to do bad, poorly randomized polls very cheaply. So they've rushed to save money by doing crap polls on the internet; result, crappy predictions.
Then there's push polls; they sometimes report the results of those as if they're the real thing, hoping to influence people in the direction the push poll is designed to point. Of course, those don't track reality very well because that's not what they're for.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2BAnd yeah, things might be rather boring nowadays, but it's mostly feature complete and doesn't have a huge amount of optimization potential left.

This in itself is excellent and impressive news.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ShabbyXDidn't they reveal that os share is calculated automatically and is independent of the surveys?

Maybe, but not that I remember hearing. Source?

I can't seem to find the gol article quoting someone about this. @liam, do you remember this?

Just to clarify, I don't find it hard to believe. I've seen plenty of plausible speculation that Valve must have the accurate data somewhere, which they could release instead of the survey info, but I don't remember anything about them actually doing it.

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Colombo didn't really say anything at all. So who knows what they really mean? There's not much to analyse in that sentence other than Colombo disagrees with me (without providing a reason why).

So Colombo didn't say anything? And no one knows what it means? But Colombo must have said something, and something meaningful, when you interpreted the meaning as disagreement with you.

Given that there wasn't much to analyse, you made quite interesting analysis of my sentence.

Sadly without getting the simple meaning right in the first sense.

Dude, you should stop babbling.

drmoth has a point IMO. I don't see that this particularly clarifies anything, either. You may be right, drmoth may be wrong, but drmoth is making arguments while you're just assuming your correctness, so it's hard for me to tell what backs the assumption up.

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At a certain point you should be able to tell your sponsors to take a hike. What are they gonna do about it? Maybe something, but from all the way back on Earth their power is, shall we say, greatly attenuated. The frontier wants freedom!

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With limpid clarity I proclaim I would like to win a key.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI mean, if all those ex-PUBG players just washed right back out again as they stopped playing PUBG, most of them presumably never bought another game.

Why do you think that ? What does make the PUBG players so special ? I have no idea and do not know much about PUBG. :)

Apparently a whole lot of the influx of new Chinese users to Steam was people who came to play PUBG, which was a huge fad. Theoretically, they might have bought other games on Steam once they had arrived, but if they did that presumably they would have stayed on Steam to play those other games after they were finished playing PUBG. But Liam said,

I think one of the big reasons is also the major decline in people playing PUBG. Look at the "Players every day" graph on SteamDB and see how far it has fallen, which is big considering it was a game previously pushing the "simplified chinese" use up high. 3.2 million in January to around 1 million now.

So it seems a whole lot of the people who came to play PUBG in fact left again once they were finished playing it (and since they were all Windows users, Linux share rose as a result). But if they left Steam once they were finished playing PUBG, that means they didn't buy other games and stick around to play them. QED.

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Quoting: ShabbyXDidn't they reveal that os share is calculated automatically and is independent of the surveys?

Maybe, but not that I remember hearing. Source?

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