"A-la-carte game purchases are no longer available."
i searched for in on the dictionary, and the word for it is pretty clear:
steal

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: ROllerozxaImproving the loading of game mod DLLs sounds interesting but what got my attention was the firstmost line, Wine running on Android? 👀

Yep, it was (somewhat) supported starting with the 3.0 release but ending with 7.0. I think the arm build was only able to run WinRT binaries (Windows apps for arm) so usefulness was pretty much limited to Android on x86. That will probably change now with FEX that emulates x86 on arm64.

I guess it already has changed. I saw so many Youtube Videos popping up on how to run Steam on Android on Ayn Odin and other devices. GameNative and other apps are mentioned.

afaik they arent using wine but an fork of it, that might not even give credits or source code, im not sure if it does....

in any case now we will have support on the wine itself it seems

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Quoting: Nickname

Quoting: _MarsIt will probably go down a bit again.
But can we talk about the 11% for English only? Holy moly.
All those YouTubers and stuff talking about switching to Linux must have really moved the needle after the W10 EoL.

Well they sure have, but I guess English is over represented on Linux because more techy users tend to prefer English as system language over their native language(I know enough people like that myself, even on Windows, Android or Mac). And to be fair, language support for a lot of not-English languages is still poor on many Linux distros, I still remember Firefox on Manjaro resetting the language to english(from the system language) after each update, or lots of not fully translated strings here and there, missing keyboard support for non QWERTY layouts, incomplete glossary etc etc
Thats partially even still the case with big languages like French or German even on bigger distros sometimes(Take german glossary books for instance, still lacking so many words on both Linux and even on Android these days(2026!)) :/

not to mention, the tutorials...
and commands are all english based

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Quoting: amatai

Quoting: elmapulan console with 6,5M units sold would be called an flop.

6.5 M monthly active users is more like 20 millions units sold. Not a sound success but by no mean a failure. The Switch 2 is there for example.

except it took less than an year to do what we took 30...

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: elmapulan console with 6,5M units sold would be called an flop.

That depends where you came from. A console trade-mark that arrives for the first time with 6.5M is a victory. A Playstation that loses "just" 6.5M (PS5 has sold 92M until 2 months ago) is also a flop. Linux comes from the bottom, so 6.5M is a true victory (and I think you agree).

But don't forget, we are only speaking about Steam-data. I am playing most of the time without Steam titles as Horizon Zero Dawn or Path of Exile 1/2 or indie games. So sometimes I am part of the monthly-players, sometimes I am not while playing every month some sort of games. PCs of governments or companies running desktop Linux are not included, too. India has a market-share of 20% Linux computers all together. Europe and North-America reached 5% last year before Win10 EOL. The real desktop Linux user number is far above and trends as "Europe governments moves to Linux" is not included here.

non gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.
most of the linux users will play on steam anyway, i mean, we have less options when it comes to thirdy party clients officially supporting linux, not everyone knows about stuff like heroic/lutris and thoses dont support all windows stores just the most popular ones.

as for the number being big , yes it is for linux, but again, we arent talking about the linux market here, we are talking about the gaming market.
not to mention if an console took 30 years to reach 6.5 millions of users, it wont be seeing as an success, but its good in an specific meassure: trend

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Quoting: shotm7There is like 130M players by month, so 6,5M linux users. How can publishers afford to ignore such an enormous market share? Few businesses ever get the chance to reach such a vast potential audience.

an console with 6,5M units sold would be called an flop.

lets not ignore one thing: half of the market is mobile, and consoles are 25~30% (in terms of revenue, not ammount of users)

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Quoting: vic-bayI am looking at hwsurvey stats again, and considering MacOS also got its share almost doubled, it is not error in counting linux share, but most likely the surveyed set of machines just happend to have lower share of windows.

or maybe microsoft pissed off a lot of people... not to mention apple relased cheap macs recently

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calm down, valve did some mistakes in their counting in the past, calm down, calm down, calm down...
ok, i cant

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"What are your thoughts? Leave a comment,"
RMS was right, join us and share the software...
but at the same time "this ship has sailed", its not enough to fight by making free software alternatives, we need preservation of the softwares and games regardless of if they are free or proprietary, companies shouldnt have the right to take away things from people forever especially if they paid for those things, its stealing.

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thanks atari... i guess..

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