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Here are the latest results from the monthly GOL survey. Wait, you already did February? Previously we were showing the results as the month we presented results, which was wrong (last months posted was amended).
Since the questions you answer are for the month before, going forward I will name the correct month in the article title that the results correlate to. So, I'm announcing these in March (and previously we would say "survey results for March"), but the questions were all about February, hope that makes sense. If it doesn't let me know.
Some new questions this month which will continue into other months, as requested.
A good solid response this month, which makes the graphs look pretty good and accurate compared to last month.
Still quite a lot of people use Wine, and it's not surprising since there's still a vast amount of games we don't have. Hopefully as more games get ported this will go down.
I would like to thank Feds once again for doing the graphs for us. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Since the questions you answer are for the month before, going forward I will name the correct month in the article title that the results correlate to. So, I'm announcing these in March (and previously we would say "survey results for March"), but the questions were all about February, hope that makes sense. If it doesn't let me know.
Some new questions this month which will continue into other months, as requested.
A good solid response this month, which makes the graphs look pretty good and accurate compared to last month.
Still quite a lot of people use Wine, and it's not surprising since there's still a vast amount of games we don't have. Hopefully as more games get ported this will go down.
I would like to thank Feds once again for doing the graphs for us. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Segata Sanshiro Mar 19, 2016
It's looking great guys, thanks!
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I never knew we got around ~1500 survey responses per month. I didn't think GoL was that popular, but that's great!
GOL is probably more popular than most people realise, and the people who do this survey are a tiny fraction of our overall visitor count.
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What would we do without our GOL??? <3
That would be a sad and empty life... ;)
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I never knew we got around ~1500 survey responses per month. I didn't think GoL was that popular, but that's great!
GOL is probably more popular than most people realise, and the people who do this survey are a tiny fraction of our overall visitor count.
It's also linked monthly on /r/linux_gaming subreddit, I expect we have quite a few people filling out the survey who don't regularly visit this site. Might make for an interesting unique question next month.
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Before GOL, I would read Phoronix, now I don't read Phoronix very often.What would we do without our GOL??? <3
That would be a sad and empty life... ;)
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I would like to thank Feds once again for doing the graphs for us.You're welcome, glad I can help :)
Unfortunately coffee can substitute sleep only up to a certain level so this time I haven't implemented any visible improvement, maybe next time!
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lucifertdark Mar 20, 2016
Wow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.
ps I was going to buy a Steam link the other day, but when I got to the GAME store they'd put the price up from £39.99 for a link on it's own to £99.99 for a link & controller bundle & no option to buy the link on it's own at all.
Last edited by lucifertdark on 20 March 2016 at 7:59 am UTC
ps I was going to buy a Steam link the other day, but when I got to the GAME store they'd put the price up from £39.99 for a link on it's own to £99.99 for a link & controller bundle & no option to buy the link on it's own at all.
Last edited by lucifertdark on 20 March 2016 at 7:59 am UTC
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GustyGhost Mar 20, 2016
Wow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.
It looks like Humble picked up most of the slack. Linux gamers are just more savvy about DRM-free.
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Wow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.
December is Chritsmas' sale month.
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Open data request:
Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?
Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.
> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -
Cheers!
Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?
Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.
> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -
Cheers!
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Wow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.
And another thing too: beginning of January a new "Didn't buy a game" option appeared which affected negatively all other stores buy trend.
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Open data request:I can look up posting a link to the survey data, since we don't take any personal indentifiers what so ever I have no problem with it.
Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?
Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.
> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -
Cheers!
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Okay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 20 March 2016 at 6:22 pm UTC
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 20 March 2016 at 6:22 pm UTC
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Armand Raynal Mar 20, 2016
Open data request:
Hey, are there any chances to open up the data, at least last year's one for 3rd parties to do some data analysis?
Just read steamboiler's "Three kinds of linux gamer" post where their linux gamer's survey data was used to build clusters of similiar linux gaming patterns.
> http://boilingsteam.com/the-three-kinds-of-linux-gamers/ -
Cheers!
I wonder what is more interesting in life than sociology :D
Thanks for sharing, love the analysis part.
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Okay, here's the data for anyone who wants to use it:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/uploads/golsurveyfebresults.csv
Thanks! :)
By the way I see it has a Timestamp in the "2016/03/01 11:54:21 AM GMT" format, so one could figure out a trend of survey completion from 2016/03/1 until 2016/03/14 .
I was also hyped in trying to you see what happens to this trend after the news is spread out in reddit, but there is only "this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2016" without the exact hour :(
EDIT: found on Google that if you hover the post date it tells the exact day and time. So 1456858580.0 -> "Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:56:20 GMT"
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/48fwj0/new_linux_steamos_gamer_survey_for_march/
EDIT: how and besides being called golsurveyfebresults.csv it is actually this months march one :)
Last edited by nullzero on 20 March 2016 at 10:32 pm UTC
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Crazy Penguin Mar 20, 2016
Still quite a lot of people use Wine, and it's not surprising since there's still a vast amount of games we don't have. Hopefully as more games get ported this will go down.Doubt that! As I'm using Wine to play older which are very unlikely to be ported.
Humble has become another cheap Steamkey-Reseller and had some nice bundles over last month. So I'm not surprised that Humble went up.Wow a 20% drop between December & February of people who bought games on Steam, that's not a good sign for Valve.
It looks like Humble picked up most of the slack. Linux gamers are just more savvy about DRM-free.
Those that prefer DRM-free rather go to GOG nowadays, Humble isn't first-class on that anymore. Sad, but true...
The problem with GOG is that it misses lots of native Linux Builds which are available elsewhere e.g. on Steam for a longer time already. Then they have to improve their Linux support. I'm kinda surprised that this "joke" of Client hasn't been ported yet. Sorry, but my support for GOG has dropped to almost zero.
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