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>non-existent on pc What's the share of PC gaming on Microsoft Windows vs. not on Microsoft Windows?

by Hamuko 4y ago

MikusR 4y ago
They don't get any money from people playing on Windows. All the money goes to Valve
- Hamuko 4y ago
  My gaming PC doesn't have a Windows license because I like Microsoft or Windows. Written on my Mac Studio.
- Vermeulen 4y ago
  Your mostly correct - but it's wrong to say 'non-existent' on PC due to how successful PC Game Pass is
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- thehappypm 4y ago
  Isnt gaming a big draw to buying Windows in the first place?
poloniculmov 4y ago
Thanks to Proton, most games work on Linux, as long as they don't have any anti-cheat rootkits.
- seattle_spring 4y ago
  So the only online games you can play on Linux are full of blatant cheaters?
- Hamuko 4y ago
  ProtonDB rates 28% of the top 1000 games as platinum ("runs perfectly out of the box"). The rest either need some tweaks, have some issues, or just don't work. My assumption is that most gamers don't care too much tweak with their games, so I wouldn't put that much weight on the gold category. And when it comes to silver and below, that can be pretty nasty. And when looking at the top 20 most played games on Steam, there's some pretty big titles missing. PUBG (5th most played) is borked, CoD MWII (6th) is borked, Destiny 2 (9th) is borked, Rainbow Six Siege (10th) is borked, FIFA 23 (11th) is borked, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT (13th) is silver, Rust (14th) is bronze and Dead by Daylight (20th) is bronze. So when it comes to "most players", there's definitely a lot of gaps too. I have a Steam Deck and I can have pretty good gaming experiences on it. Surprisingly even. But it's definitely not perfect, and one of the reasons why I can feel pretty confident in owning a Steam Deck is that I still have a Windows-based gaming PC that I can fall back on.
  - 0x457 4y ago
    Don't know about the rest, but destiny 2 works fine on linux...you will just get banned by anti-cheat. The only reason you can't play Destiny 2 on linux is because Bungie won't allow it. It even has working anti-cheat.

>non-existent on pc What's the share of PC gaming on Microsoft Windows vs. not on Microsoft Windows?

by Hamuko 4y ago

>non-existent on pc What's the share of PC gaming on Microsoft Windows vs. not on Microsoft Windows?

MikusR 4y ago

They don't get any money from people playing on Windows. All the money goes to Valve

Hamuko 4y ago
My gaming PC doesn't have a Windows license because I like Microsoft or Windows. Written on my Mac Studio.
Vermeulen 4y ago
Your mostly correct - but it's wrong to say 'non-existent' on PC due to how successful PC Game Pass is
deleted 4y ago
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thehappypm 4y ago
Isnt gaming a big draw to buying Windows in the first place?

poloniculmov 4y ago

Thanks to Proton, most games work on Linux, as long as they don't have any anti-cheat rootkits.

seattle_spring 4y ago
So the only online games you can play on Linux are full of blatant cheaters?
Hamuko 4y ago
ProtonDB rates 28% of the top 1000 games as platinum ("runs perfectly out of the box"). The rest either need some tweaks, have some issues, or just don't work. My assumption is that most gamers don't care too much tweak with their games, so I wouldn't put that much weight on the gold category. And when it comes to silver and below, that can be pretty nasty. And when looking at the top 20 most played games on Steam, there's some pretty big titles missing. PUBG (5th most played) is borked, CoD MWII (6th) is borked, Destiny 2 (9th) is borked, Rainbow Six Siege (10th) is borked, FIFA 23 (11th) is borked, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT (13th) is silver, Rust (14th) is bronze and Dead by Daylight (20th) is bronze. So when it comes to "most players", there's definitely a lot of gaps too. I have a Steam Deck and I can have pretty good gaming experiences on it. Surprisingly even. But it's definitely not perfect, and one of the reasons why I can feel pretty confident in owning a Steam Deck is that I still have a Windows-based gaming PC that I can fall back on.
- 0x457 4y ago
  Don't know about the rest, but destiny 2 works fine on linux...you will just get banned by anti-cheat. The only reason you can't play Destiny 2 on linux is because Bungie won't allow it. It even has working anti-cheat.