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When you purchase from Humble Bundle, they don't know what platform you would use to play. All they know is what platform you're buying from. People who use th
by maratc 9y ago
When you purchase from Humble Bundle, they don't know what platform you would use to play. All they know is what platform you're buying from.
People who use their Android phones to purchase and pay Humble Bundle, get classified under "Linux". You can see big Linux platform numbers even for bundles that don't have a single Linux game.
- shmerl 9y agoBut they give you an option to indicate it. Which isn't any worse than a survey, but focuses on actual sales in contrast to what Steam publishes.
- Armisael16 9y agoSteam's survey reads the platform - the user has almost no role in actually filling it out beyond saying 'yes, you can collect this data'. This makes it significantly better than requiring each and every user to act to specify their platform.
- shmerl 9y agoSteam survey isn't comprehensive. HB sales are counted for all users. So I'd say the later is actually useful, the former is just some oddity.