Quoting: dmantione

QuoteThe irony: Your purchase will count as Windows sale.

Well: If the purchase was done on Linux and not played in the first week, it still is a Linux sale. However, it also depends on how the publisher interprets statistics, and for a game not available on Linux... he might just add up the numbers and treat everything as Windows.

I'm familiar with that. Since there is only a Windows version it will be counted as Windows sale, regardless of being installed or played. It escapes me, why people buy games "because something was promised" - buy it when it is real. Perhaps even worse than pre-ordering (one can assume that a game will be released at a given date - see XCOM 2).

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Quoting: gojulBought this one, trusting their lies. I should not have done so. Now they can wait for a loooooooooooooooooong loooooooooooooooooooong time for my money...

Don't blame them for your - sorry for sounding so harsh - stupidity. It was pretty clear from the get go (or at least soon afterwards), that they would release the Linux version very very late, if at all (particularly when they dropped the Wii U version in July 2015). The irony: Your purchase will count as Windows sale. And they couldn't care less about the "we won't support you in the future" because the worst that happens, is that people refrain from pre-ordering. If they'd churn out PC2 for Linux in a reasonable state: How many would not buy "because they never released PC1 for my favourite platform"?
Lesson learned: Never pre-order. Or rather: Never order on wishful thinking.

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Did anyone seriously think that Project Cars would ever see the light of day on SteamOS? The announcement was more than vague. There are a far more "outspoken" candidates out there which still have to deliver - Rocket League comes to my mind. And to spare you some future disappointment: If Star Citizen ever will be finished, we still won't see a Linux version. As with Kingdom Come: Deliverance (which reminds me, that I should finally get my refund from those bastards).

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Quoting: manero666

Quoting: MblackwellAlright but:

Quoting: leillo197570-80 fps in High Quality with a GTX950-2GB and Intel i5-2500 (3.3GHZx4). A really decent port. Good job, Feral!

I played about an hour and the game seems to be interesting. I will play it more this weekend

I checked online and that's about the speed that Windows users were getting with that hardware.

The problem here is that this Feral port requires way more hardware power to get the job done..
The requirements differences between Window$ and Linux (native) are huge

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows Vista
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM (not recommended for Intel HD Graphics cards)
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 5 GB available space

MINIMUM:
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 / SteamOS 2.0
Processor: Intel i3 or AMD FX6300
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 640 (1GB), AMD R9 270, Intel Iris Pro 6200 or better
Storage: 16 GB available space
Additional Notes: NVIDIA GPU's require Driver version 367.27 (tested). AMD and Intel GPU's require MESA 11.2 (tested). AMD GPUs are not supported on SteamOS

The minimum requirements are mostly irrelevant and can state pretty much everything. E.g. why should the game use 3 times more hard disk space on Linux than on Windows? An i3 processor is dual core and some models run hardly above 2GHz and the "ATI or NVidia card w/ 512MB" can mean anything. I seriously doubt, that the game will run on a 20-dollar-passively-cooled AMD5450 - but they come with one Gig RAM... IOW: The Linux minimum specs will ensure a reasonably running game. The Windows minimum specifications would result in a slide show at best.

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Quoting: TacoDeBossRuns at 20 FPS at high settings 1080p on my GTX 1080. Great... Another horrible port by Feral. Ugh.

Runs at 80 to 100 fps at high settings 1200p on my GTX960. Another great port by Feral. Hooray.
What now?

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I'd add "Kingdom Come: Deliverance". I know, the game is still in development, but a Beta for Linux was promised months (or rather years ago). First they took money from Linux backers, then they promised details about the current status of the Linux port for months. But they actually never disclosed anything.

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Quoting: meraco750$ for a sub-par gaming PC.

Meraco? The meraco!? It's an honor to meet you here. Glad that you don't restrict flaming to the Steam forums and make a forceful impression here.

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Quoting: BeamboomIt's so funny to see the steady flow of poor excuses and illogical reasoning every. Single. Time. an article about the Steam survey results are published. Get over it guys, we're small. Tiny. Almost invisible on the radar.
That's status quo today.

And we are talking about a 0.04% change in a random sample. That's probably one less Linux user that got the questionaire. Or maybe two.

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Quoting: wolfyrionThat was ovious

20 Games Top Sellers, Only 5 Titles to Linux

Games like

DOOM,Rocket League,The Witcher 3,Dark Souls 3,Rise of The Tomb Raider etc

You think anyone who is a Pro GAMER etc,would switch to Linux?

What is a Pro GAMER? And I assume that they (whatever they are) account only for a miniscule amount of the overall Steam player base.

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The new stats page is nice. But could you add percentage to the absolute figures? E.g. RAM - 16GB "319/40%"

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