I'd love it if Steam published these stats but somehow narrowed them down, or collated them somehow with their "concurrent users" list. I feel like the monthly-active-users list (130M accounts) probably includes a fair bit of churn and burn accounts for their free games, particularly combined with China and their internet-cafe culture, or just assholes twinking on counter-strike.

Maybe concurrent users (around 38M) isn't quite right - it's more like "Frequently used over 6 months, with 10+ paid-for games" or something like that. Filter out the dross.

If you just take 2% as the Linux share and apply that to the concurrent users, it suggests that there's always at least 750K Linux users playing games... and even as a rabid Linux advocate, that feels pretty high to me! While 2% of the total figure of 135M is 2.7M which feels entirely believable.

Man, stats are hard.

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I hope this is real. I shelved my SC when I realised that most of the games I use a controller for inevitably used two thumbsticks and the pad stand-in for that missing right stick just didn't work well.

This is an insta-buy if it's as good as the original SC but ALSO has that crucial second thumbstick.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: EhvisPaying 20 euro to beta test a game for 5 days. I'm laughing, but it's really sad that this actually works.

It's for the whales: people who have money to burn. It's not for people like us who would even consider saving money for more important things.

Not only whales, but it also plays on FOMO (fear of missing out) which takes advantage of certain mindsets, and puts unfair pressure on parents (although neither Space Marine 2 nor this really target young children). It's scummy. And because it works, and the publishers make literally millions, they'll do it again. And again.

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Looks lovely! Still wouldn't buy an Nvidia card! :grin:

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I hate to say it, but after purchasing this from their German site earlier in the year, I couldn't make the adjustment to using it. It's about 2 to 4 keys shy on most games I play. I thought that 10 buttons would be enough, but...

Guns/ability 1, 2, 3, 4
Run, crouch, jump
Interact (normally F, sometimes E)
Map (normally tab, or M in most games)
Inventory (normally I or maybe tab)
Escape/Menu
Special 1 (normally "q" in most games)
Spcial 2 (normally "e" in most games)
Grenade (normally G or H)

I'm already four buttons over, and I still need to tap the keyboard for voice-activation, or team-chat, or statistics, or whatever else you need. Some games do have less than 4 "gun" keys though, but of course, some have more (e.g. Helldivers 2 has five).

The quality of these units is superb and the satisfaction of the WASD movement is brilliant. I just needed more buttons.

I believe they're adding things like double-tapping to give more options, but the Linux tool I used back in March didn't have support for double-tapping, or indeed any kind of macros, so I was stuck having to move between the MoveMaster and keyboard quite frequently. In the end, it was just easier to keep using my keyboard.



I think they're also on the verge of bringing out their original MoveMaster companion, that adds another 8 buttons (or was it 10?). That might get me back into using mine.

Love the unit, but just can't use it with only those 10 buttons as it stands.

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No surprises, I suppose. Focus Entertainment made over £3M when more than 160K people paid for the Space Marine 2 "early access". So Xbox game studios are wanting a slice of the same.

Focus wanted £25 more though, so it's a small mercy that this early access is "only" another £20.

I have several, otherwise very intelligent friends who paid the £25 for Space Marine 2 and claim to have no regrets - one justification they gave was that the extra £25 included other benefits beyond the early access to the game.

I'm no patient gamer, tbh, but I'll be damned at taking part in these kinds of FOMO-based cash-grabs.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'll have to give it another run through. I remember it being fun, but finding it annoying that sometimes I'd have a thing I wanted the villagers to do, I'd put some on that job, even pull them off other jobs, and nope, they didn't want to do that thing.
But the big critter you're on the back of is just adorable.

That's pretty much my experience of every colony/city builder I've ever played...

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I have no idea where this weird anger is coming from. I bought Prime for free Amazon deliveries, so, yeah, I was surprised to learn I now had access to a huge library of free games.

Sure, they're not really free in the truest sense, but no need to be so riled. I found the article helpful. Some won't. That's fine.

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This project is incredible - I can't tell you how frustrating it was to mod Skyrim using Windows-only tools. I can't wait for them to support Skyrim, though, as it's one of the very few games I actually care about modding! I suspect that there's a fair bit of unpleasant legacy nonsense they'll have to deal with there though, so I'm not holding my breath!

I guess this is an incentive to play Cyberpunk again though, especially with mods like this out there [External Link]!

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Quoting: MakiYou seem very agitated about this for some reason. Might want to take some distance from this.

Sounded like a joke-y riposte to dpanter's over the top suggestion, to me! Tone is so hard on the internet.

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