According to a chart in the comments section in Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/875653-valve-s-steam-survey-shows-linux-gaming-fall-to-one-of-the-lowest-levels-ever/page5) in February 2013, when our market share was ~2%, there were 7million active Steam users. Now, when we're at 0.84%, there are an estimated 18.5million users.

If those numbers are correct - and I haven't checked them, so please find an original source before anybody quotes this - then in 2013 there were 140,000 linux users and now there are 155,400 users.

So the userbase has gone up (by 15,400 users!), but it just hasn't kept in line with the number of Windows users, hence the lower percentage.

(7,000,000/100%) * 2.0% = 140,000
(18,500,000/100%) * 0.84% = 155,400

I haven't the time now to dig around to find out if those figures for the total concurrent number of steam users are correct, but even if they're not, please do remember that this is all relative (as is mentioned in the article).

Actually, maybe in future when referring to the steam survey, the headlines should quote the number of users, calculated in this way, rather then the percentage?

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Quoting: Mountain ManI was put-off of Elite: Dangerous because of the scammy nature of their early access program (charging something like 4 times the price for the "privilege" of beta testing), and I'm not entirely sure I want to support the developers because of it.

You're right:

DavidBrabenCEO & Founder 2 points 7 days ago "I'm afraid there are no plans for this at the moment."

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/3wx239/david_braben_ask_me_anything/cxzm7sy [External Link]

Well, that's what you get for basing an article on my wild speculations on reddit :-)

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Actually, I can't blame him for that one. When begging for cash on Kickstarter, it's easy to promise the world (*cough* Peter Molyneux *cough*), but he went out of his way to *not* say that they would bring it out for Linux. As you mention, there was the "What about linux/raspberry pi/other platforms" in the FAQ but that only didn't rule out the possibility in future and nothing definate was promised, so his integrity is intact :-D

I guess with his work with the RPi foundation, I was kind of hoping he might be a linux fan, but apparently when asked directly in the past, he has shrugged it off and said "Why don't you just buy a Mac" or something similar. Still, that doesn't mean anything and he did do that interview with TuxRadar fairly early on, so I guess when the business case for doing it is there, I'm sure they will.

What's annoying me is that I got some of my friends to back it, who are enjoying themselves playing it now, while I'm being a purist and haven't touched it yet :-(

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I backed the kickstarter for this and bought the lifetime expansion, because I was a fan of the earlier games and, well, a lifetime is a long period of time in which to get a lnux port out. I just hope people don't abandon the game before it gets into my hands. I've heard lots of people compaining about it, but they probably never played the original (or maybe they were nostalgia-fuelled fanboys like me who were disappointed that it didn't live up to the hype... hope not...). I couldn't really care less about the online component - I'd just quite like to zoom around the galaxy like I remember from Frontier.

I actually expect them to push out the PS4 release first, but sooner or later it'll come to linux/SteamOS - I think VR was an afterthought for them originally, but now they've seen the way it's going for VR and how their customers go on about it - I think that this is why they unexpectedly made the move onto Steam (which I think David Braben said way back when that it wasn't in their original plans either). So, it would make sense to get onto Valve's platform of choice not too long after the HTC Vive comes out, right?

Anyway, I'm also the one who stumbled across the job posting and put it on reddit. This is flimsiest of evidence, but I read in an interview where Braben was shouting about the virtues of the COBRA engine and how it wouldn't take much to port it to Linux if they wanted to, so maybe they only need one guy part-time to do it?

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Quoting: maodzedunGreat news again. Still, I'm a bit puzzled you haven't covered the release of Kingdom yet, Liam.

And theres the just cause 3 name drop too. I wasn't sure if you guys hadny seen this or if it wasn't concrete enough to base an article on:
http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/15/9536047/steam-machine-alienware-hands-on-video [External Link]

...or did I just miss it?

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Magicka?

But I hope it's Skyrim too

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Assassins Creed: Black Flag.... tenuous?

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So... does the follow mean that Feral Interactive have announced Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for Linux?

"Mac and Linux gamers have already started jamming requests for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided into THE REQUESTINATOR, but please note that the machine can only consider your request if you first say it outloud in your gruffest Adam Jensen voice."

Looking back through the previous posts shows things for Dirt3 and Batman, so I guess they don't just put this stuff out there unless they mean it

Source: https://www.facebook.com/feralinteractive/photos/a.910655945625576.1073741862.118120444879134/958009044223599/?type=1&permPage=1 [External Link]

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Here's what I put (just in case anyone cares :-) ):

"I solely play on linux now. It's a shame because I got some way through Diablo 3 before it stopped working on wine - it's probably fixed now, but I no longer have the inclination to spend what little leisure time I get post-children tweeking settings and trying to get compromises working. I would very much appreciate it if you put some dev time into getting linux ports working. That way I would finish D3 and buy the DLC. I'd also be likely to buy Starcraft 2 if it had a linux port."

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We've come a long way since Heroes Of Newerth and Osmos (Although I am still very fond of Osmos).

You're getting a few more comments on your blog these days too :-)

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