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> Not really For every person that buys directly from the developer, I expect there are several order of magnitudes more people that buy through steam. If you'
by rootlocus 8y ago
> Not really
For every person that buys directly from the developer, I expect there are several order of magnitudes more people that buy through steam. If you're a drop in the ocean, that doesn't count as "not really".
- pjmlp 8y agoThat is not the same as "So when people go to buy one more game... they go to Steam,".
- jabberthemutt 8y agoYes, it is. Language is a funny thing that overrules pedantic miniscule minorities.
- pjmlp 8y agoUnless I got my Cambridge English somehow broken, "So when people go to buy one more game... they go to Steam", implies everyone does it, which isn't the case given that not everyone goes to Steam. To state otherwise, it should have been written as "So when people go to buy one more game... the majority goes to Steam".
- loup-vaillant 8y agoNo, it implies that almost everyone goes to Steam.
- pjmlp 8y agoSo my English is broken...
- rootlocus 8y agoI think this kind of pedantry is unnecessary because there are very few absolute statements, so decorating everything with a quantifier to imply room for error is redundant. Also, the argument that a statement implies 100%, but it's actually a slightly smaller percentage is very weak, especially in online forums where people don't write legalese.