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I’m curious what the introduction of the steam deck has done to these numbers. With regards to sales, on the one hand, I expect that the number of players on L
by pdpi 3y ago
I’m curious what the introduction of the steam deck has done to these numbers.
With regards to sales, on the one hand, I expect that the number of players on Linux has spiked by at least an order of magnitude. On the other hand, I expect that the majority of people buying a steam deck are “hardcore” PC gamers who also have a windows desktop somewhere, so it’s hard to attribute game sales to Linux/Steam deck.
In terms of support tickets, somebody mentioned that a developer countered that the tickets they saw were mostly non-Linux specific, and likely the result of a savvier crowd who’s more proactive at reporting bugs. I kind of expect the number of issues per player to go down, both because of the qualitative change in user base and because the deck represents a console-like static target. On the other hand, I expect those support tickets to be a lot less actionable (because they’re coming from less technical users)