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>> but the experience has remained subpar and excludes the most common games Minecraft. KSP. Factorio. Counter-strike. Rocket League. Among Us. >> E.g. o

>> but the experience has remained subpar and excludes the most common games Minecraft. KSP. Factorio. Counter-strike. Rocket League. Among Us. >> E.g. of the 10 most popular Steam games the only 3 that are green (and they are all Steam exclusives which bumps their Steam numbers a bit) Which list are you looking at? Sales or how many people are actually playing these games? I couldn't care less about which games sell the most. What matters is which games are actually being played, something very different than sales. According to this list, the bulk of the most popular games run fine on linux, several natively. https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-20-pc-games/ https://newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-20-pc-games/

bentheklutz 5y ago
Rocket League has been officially unsupported for linux since the beginning of 2020[0]. One can still play it via means others in the thread have mentioned, but for me it’s more notable in this conversation as a popular title that had native linux support and lost it later on. [0] https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and-linux/ https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and...
zamadatix 5y ago
Minecraft is only supported on the legacy version not the new version you need to play with Xbox/Android/iOS/Switch/PS/Bedrock users, same for Minecraft Dungeons. Rocket League used to be natively supported and now must be run through Proton (though at least Epic hasn't blocked it via DRM like Fortnite), Among Us barely makes the top 100 now and is regularly broken/subpar but it is one my friend was able to play with us when it was popular (with a bit of fighting), Counter Strike works great but is one of the 3 Valve titles I was talking about. > Which list are you looking at? ProtonDB https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ which uses Steam's live statistics https://store.steampowered.com/stats/Steam-Game-and-Player-Statistics https://store.steampowered.com/stats/Steam-Game-and-Player-S.... I think that site you linked is just republishing Steam's page in a static version (but without the information on which that ProtonDB adds). If you want to go beyond Steam the numbers only get worse as Valve has been leading the push for Linux gaming, even making their own Linux gaming devices for many years. E.g. Fortnite from Epic typically peaks around 20-30 million active players each day (which is around the same as the peak number of Steam users concurrently logged in whether playing the game or not - albeit not all PC obviously) and you can't even join a match on Linux. > Sales or how many people are actually playing these games? The latter, a lot of the most popular games are F2P now so it wouldn't even be possible to do the comparison by sold copies.

bentheklutz 5y ago

Rocket League has been officially unsupported for linux since the beginning of 2020[0]. One can still play it via means others in the thread have mentioned, but for me it’s more notable in this conversation as a popular title that had native linux support and lost it later on. [0] https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and-linux/ https://www.rocketleague.com/news/ending-support-for-mac-and...

zamadatix 5y ago

Minecraft is only supported on the legacy version not the new version you need to play with Xbox/Android/iOS/Switch/PS/Bedrock users, same for Minecraft Dungeons. Rocket League used to be natively supported and now must be run through Proton (though at least Epic hasn't blocked it via DRM like Fortnite), Among Us barely makes the top 100 now and is regularly broken/subpar but it is one my friend was able to play with us when it was popular (with a bit of fighting), Counter Strike works great but is one of the 3 Valve titles I was talking about. > Which list are you looking at? ProtonDB https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ which uses Steam's live statistics https://store.steampowered.com/stats/Steam-Game-and-Player-Statistics https://store.steampowered.com/stats/Steam-Game-and-Player-S.... I think that site you linked is just republishing Steam's page in a static version (but without the information on which that ProtonDB adds). If you want to go beyond Steam the numbers only get worse as Valve has been leading the push for Linux gaming, even making their own Linux gaming devices for many years. E.g. Fortnite from Epic typically peaks around 20-30 million active players each day (which is around the same as the peak number of Steam users concurrently logged in whether playing the game or not - albeit not all PC obviously) and you can't even join a match on Linux. > Sales or how many people are actually playing these games? The latter, a lot of the most popular games are F2P now so it wouldn't even be possible to do the comparison by sold copies.