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A few websites are reporting that Steam for Linux has hit 1900 games after only hitting 1800 around nine days ago, this is false. We are currently on 1820.
To get the correct reading you need to filter by Games only, and by Release Date. The default sorting option "Relevance" includes all games on Linux now, and games yet to come out. This took no time at all to figure out, I simply clicked the last page in the list to see games not yet available.
Sadly, some websites instantly reported on it hitting that milestone without bothering to look into how we got 100 games in nine days (which is an insanely quick time for so many games to come over).
I'm going to be brutally honest, as soon as I saw the figure I knew it was wrong, and I don't entirely get how Phoronix and Softpedia didn't notice. Those two websites comment on every milestone we hit (we do also), so they know how long ago we hit 1800. Part of journalism is researching, even for a few minutes, or so I thought anyway.
I pointed this out to both websites, Phoronix has yet to clarify it, and Softpedia blocked us on twitter, seriously:
Don't like the truth pointed out I guess, or was it how blunt I was about it? Who knows, but at least Softpedia corrected themselves.
As always, I am here to simply give you the real news as we get it. We aren't in it for money, ad clicks, or anything, so we aren't in a rush to push content out that ends up being completely wrong. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
A few websites are reporting that Steam for Linux has hit 1900 games after only hitting 1800 around nine days ago, this is false. We are currently on 1820.
To get the correct reading you need to filter by Games only, and by Release Date. The default sorting option "Relevance" includes all games on Linux now, and games yet to come out. This took no time at all to figure out, I simply clicked the last page in the list to see games not yet available.
Sadly, some websites instantly reported on it hitting that milestone without bothering to look into how we got 100 games in nine days (which is an insanely quick time for so many games to come over).
I'm going to be brutally honest, as soon as I saw the figure I knew it was wrong, and I don't entirely get how Phoronix and Softpedia didn't notice. Those two websites comment on every milestone we hit (we do also), so they know how long ago we hit 1800. Part of journalism is researching, even for a few minutes, or so I thought anyway.
I pointed this out to both websites, Phoronix has yet to clarify it, and Softpedia blocked us on twitter, seriously:
Don't like the truth pointed out I guess, or was it how blunt I was about it? Who knows, but at least Softpedia corrected themselves.
As always, I am here to simply give you the real news as we get it. We aren't in it for money, ad clicks, or anything, so we aren't in a rush to push content out that ends up being completely wrong. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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[SARCASM] ...the moment you realize that you have 418 Steam games working under Linux because you can run 140 of them under WINE and decide to send an article to phoronix about that... [/SARCASM]
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Kallestofeles 29 Jan 2016
They blocked you from their tweets? Seriously?!? Mwbhahahahaha, though. :D
Oh god.
Oh god.
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ThePierrasse 29 Jan 2016
So what's the current amount then? Can't really blame those websites as the Steam games filters are really confusing (sometimes it says that we're at 1913 games and sometimes at 1825...)
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To get the correct reading you need to filter by Games only, and by Release Date. The default sorting option "Relevance" includes all games on Linux now, and games yet to come out. This took no time at all to figure out, I simply clicked the last page in the list to see games not yet available.
I always used the "Relevance" sorting for getting the numbers as well, and it used to be only slightly off from the "Date" sorting.
I wonder what has changed...
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linux_gamer 29 Jan 2016
For me there are 1818 games (region blocking: DL is missing eg.) The number 1900+ isn't really wrong, they just have to change their headline ... are out or confirmed.
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It's because some games are announced on Linux but not published yet, like XCOM2 for example.
So if you filter by release date is not showing theses games.
Last edited by seb24 on 29 Jan 2016 at 2:59 pm UTC
So if you filter by release date is not showing theses games.
Last edited by seb24 on 29 Jan 2016 at 2:59 pm UTC
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It's because some games are announced on Linux but not published yet, like XCOM2 for example.
So if you filter by release date is not showing theses games.
Exactly what I said in the article.
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Also, do we need to report a "milestone" every 100 now? Once you hit 1000, maybe report milestones at 1500, 2000, 3000, 5000, etc.
Last edited by Keyrock on 29 Jan 2016 at 3:09 pm UTC
Last edited by Keyrock on 29 Jan 2016 at 3:09 pm UTC
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Here in Italy I get 1820 released games and 1913 sorting by "relevance".
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or was it how blunt I was about it?Possibly that's the reason... at least your comment in the phoronix forum sounds pretty abrasive to me. Don't know what you've written on softpedia though.
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or was it how blunt I was about it?Possibly that's the reason... at least your comment in the phoronix forum sounds pretty abrasive to me. Don't know what you've written on softpedia though.
It's how I normally speak, I'm not going to mince words any more and tread softly around websites which constantly put out junk. We are here to give the correct news, and not shuvvel out articles for advert clicks.
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So social justice is hitting the Linux gaming scene. We may have to campaign our asses out of this one guys.
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Well, Softpedia have now apologised and unblocked us. Mission accomplished in that regards.
The article still stands though, this could have easily been researched in less than 5 minutes worth of effort.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 29 Jan 2016 at 4:05 pm UTC
The article still stands though, this could have easily been researched in less than 5 minutes worth of effort.
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 29 Jan 2016 at 4:05 pm UTC
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Lucky you that you are not in it for the money. Lucky you that you do not have to rush out content. Others have to, to make a living. AS long as they also deliver quality content most of The time some mistakes in between are fine with me. On phoronix the oversight was instantly cought by a reader in the comments. Its easy to say that you knew the number is wrong, after you commented there too. I do not geht why you make a story out of this.
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or was it how blunt I was about it?Possibly that's the reason... at least your comment in the phoronix forum sounds pretty abrasive to me. Don't know what you've written on softpedia though.
It's how I normally speak, I'm not going to mince words any more and tread softly around websites which constantly put out junk. We are here to give the correct news, and not shuvvel out articles for advert clicks.
Sometimes its good to remember own hard times and to stay polite. Help each other instead of fighting. You point a Finger here and your tone sounds almost arrogant.
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So social justice is hitting the Linux gaming scene. We may have to campaign our asses out of this one guys.
Don't know how this has anything to do with social justice, but it's still a bad (and maybe even an unethical) thing to do.
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Lucky you that you are not in it for the money. Lucky you that you do not have to rush out content. Others have to, to make a living. AS long as they also deliver quality content most of The time some mistakes in between are fine with me. On phoronix the oversight was instantly cought by a reader in the comments. Its easy to say that you knew the number is wrong, after you commented there too. I do not geht why you make a story out of this.
Interesting that after the reader pointed it out,
But the article remains unchanged.
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