This game rocks!! Had it for a long time DRM free

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Hmmm interesting

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: metro2033fanboyPerfomance wise between Windows and Vulkan is just horrible..almost getting 10FPS less in the same games...

Did you accidentally send this message from the future? Vulkan hasn't actually been released, and none of your games run on it yet. :)

???
What are you talking about there mate?

10 FPS is too much, but I surely see a constant 5% difference. UT on Vulkan + Linux actually even run quite better than Win + DX12, since they decided to change the main developing platform for the game. Thanks to the Win 10 scandal two years ago hehehehe. Gj Epic :-)

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ARK devs W.T.F?
From Steam:

Quoting: Developer

Quoting: Random Steam User5 million dollars worth of ARK players cannot connect!

Let's try some math! If 9% of the players are on Mac/Linux and nearly 3 million copies have been sold (closer to 2.7 million at the end of 2015). That's roughly 243,000 clients that can't connect. At $20 each that's roughly 5 million dollars worth of players can't connect.

We looked at the numbers internally, and it was part of our decision: We do not have that many sales on Mac/Linux combined, and the number of active players on our official servers is really, really low from those demographics. Like orders of magnitudes less.

We actually do a lot of work internally to support a very small number of overall purchases/players of the game on Mac/Linux, compared to our overall sales.

Kind of a bummer, but yeah.

They actually seem to don't care much about us lol.
Another:

Quoting: Developer

Quoting: Random Steam UserWell you lost this user to your "urgent" decision and will be asking for a refund.

That's your right, hopefully they grant it.

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Quoting: BdMdesigNYes and it's a survey not a statistics.

Hmmm you might have definitions mixed up. The two are different entities.

Statistics is a mathematical tool that helps understand, organize, present, deal and work with data sets.
A survey is a method of gathering data sets. On the vast majority of cases, the data collected from a survey is analysed with statistics.

Steam HW surveys are just collecting data and everything they do is then analysed with statistics. It's not like it's one or the other. Also, anyone with knowledge of statistics and surveys knows how representative they can be only if you also know how good the average sample represents the whole population. We don't know this, there is speculation that it targets more Windows users. I don't believe Steam would make this big mistake and be more stupid than people who come up with such assumptions. It's in their own interest to have a good sample lol.

TLDR? It is a survey and it is statistics. The only question we can't answer is how representative the sample is.

Quoting: Kallestofeles

Quoting: khalismurActually, scepticism towards Windows 10 and it's bad reputation might be the single most positively influential factor in Linux gaming in this year.

I agree.
Fun side-fact - when it was revealed that Windows7 machines, running automatic updates, will receive Windows10 at a random patching date, even my gf started to ask around for the alternatives. :)

Yes, some people I know also got interested in Linux after Windows 10. At the end, we have to thank Microsoft :-)

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Quoting: amonobeax...
Valve just kept developing Steam until it today and look at it now...

Agree mostly with your posts. Nicely formulated.

I also think it's a similar deal with Vulkan; It's definitely not going to be a life saviour, quickly changing the Linux gaming scene. Having such high hopes for it will only cause disappointment. Linux gaming is still not quite hatching but we are seeing many steps towards it.

Actually, scepticism towards Windows 10 and it's bad reputation might be the single most positively influential factor in Linux gaming in this year. Many things are slowly and independently contributing to the platform growth. Vulkan, SteamOS & Machines, Feral & Aspyr, UE, Unity & others are examples. Alone, none of them matters much, but together and given time, things might change nicely.

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Conclusion - the old way was much better.

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Some feedback:
The previous survey results were much better presented than this. Anyone who works with statistics or data display can tell this presentation could be easily improved. Two suggestions I can offer you;

i) When working with normalized data (as in this case) the axis which refer to the distribution, the %, should have a fixed scale along all graphs for easier understanding. The vertical axis in this case was automatically generated for every graph I suppose, but fixing the top value to 100% would be much better;

ii) Makes absolutely no sense to work with more than two or three significant figures. "0.56%", "1.4%", "25%" or even "5.78%" are fine. Now, "78.94%" makes no sense.

Cheers

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all blank on firefox

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Pretty awesome game. Doesn't run as well in Linux as it does in Windows, but it's still very much playable!

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