According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

    • AnonTwo@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Too young for what? I’m older than the company is and I don’t recall any devilish controversies.

    • True Blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space
      2·
      1 year ago

      Are you getting them confused with another company? Valve’s done bad things in the past of course, but they’re still a lot better than most other gaming companies that I know of. I typically put Valve alongside companies like Capcom and Sega as “one of the not bad ones” in terms of malicious practices.

      • stappern@lemmy.one
        21·
        1 year ago

        No I’m not getting them confused them with anybody. I was there when they slapped their dick on the desk with half life 2 and always online DRM ,I’ve seen the rise of the counterstrike lootboxes and the blind eye valve turned to literal money laundering.

        Fuck me they might be the worse ever but they somehow convinced you people they love you or something?

        Again either you guys have a short memory or you are very very young.

        • True Blue@lemmy.comfysnug.space
          3·
          1 year ago

          I understand and that was one of the things I was thinking of when I said “Valve’s done bad things in the past of course”. But when you compare them to many other AAA publishers, I don’t see how Valve is particularly bad. Especially when you start bringing up lootboxes. Unlike many other publishes that go these same bad practices, and at a larger scale at that, value has done some good too, and is generally much more permissive about things like fanworks, and that does a lot to build good will. I don’t see what’s “short memory” about this.

          And I’m not even saying that I love valve or anything either, but the devil? Compared to other publishers?

          • stappern@lemmy.one
            2·
            1 year ago

            Well the thing you are missing is, steam is basically a monopoly and it sucks 30 fucking percent out of every game. Of course they don’t need to do shit anymore compared to ea and Ubisoft. THEY WON already. They de facto own the PC gaming space. But don’t be mistaken nobody has valves power in the PC space. Nobody. And they bought that position with immoral and illegal practices. I’m not gonna like them because it’s been 10 or 20 years. It’s the same company , they just are what EA would like to be. I can’t think of anybody worse honestly in terms of damage.

            • Xanx@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Realise this: Before steam most games were pirated. Steam made it really easy to pay for games. And ~20 years later we can still play these games.