Recently, Valve did a presentation about Steam during Indigo 2017 which took place in June. The interesting and not surprising thing here is that Steam just keeps on growing.
I knew Steam would be growing, but I didn't think it would be growing that quickly. By the looks of it, since 2015 they're about 2.4 million away from doubling the concurrent users record. It might sound like a lot, but they've already gone from 8.4 to 14 million.
I believe that the decline of Linux in the Steam survey is partly due to the rise of Steam in other markets, where Linux just isn't really popular. According to one of their slides, sales in Asia accounted for 17% total Steam sales for 2017 so far, that's pretty huge, when you consider say Western Europe is only 29% so far this year. From what I remember, Asia has been growing as a market for Steam for the past few years and quite quickly by the looks of it.
When looking at those sorts of percentages, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that growth in markets where Windows is more prevalent will shrink the Linux market share.
They do confirm that a UI update is coming as well, which will update a lot of ways you interact with Steam. This will affect curators, developers and normal users, like this slide gives you an idea of:
You can check out this post with many more slide pictures.
It's also interesting to see this page that Steam has, showing the number of support requests sent them in the last 24 hours. Over 200K of them were for refunds, wow! Surprising to see the technical support requests being so low as well at under 4K. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I knew Steam would be growing, but I didn't think it would be growing that quickly. By the looks of it, since 2015 they're about 2.4 million away from doubling the concurrent users record. It might sound like a lot, but they've already gone from 8.4 to 14 million.
I believe that the decline of Linux in the Steam survey is partly due to the rise of Steam in other markets, where Linux just isn't really popular. According to one of their slides, sales in Asia accounted for 17% total Steam sales for 2017 so far, that's pretty huge, when you consider say Western Europe is only 29% so far this year. From what I remember, Asia has been growing as a market for Steam for the past few years and quite quickly by the looks of it.
When looking at those sorts of percentages, it's not hard to come to the conclusion that growth in markets where Windows is more prevalent will shrink the Linux market share.
They do confirm that a UI update is coming as well, which will update a lot of ways you interact with Steam. This will affect curators, developers and normal users, like this slide gives you an idea of:
You can check out this post with many more slide pictures.
It's also interesting to see this page that Steam has, showing the number of support requests sent them in the last 24 hours. Over 200K of them were for refunds, wow! Surprising to see the technical support requests being so low as well at under 4K. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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HyperRealisticRock Jul 7, 2017
I would love to see a UI that I can navigate without a wiki page, just the other day I found a user settings page I have never seen before, I don't know how I got to that page or how I would even get back to change some settings, better look up the wiki..
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slaapliedje Jul 7, 2017
Quoting: WendigoI hope they will add the search filters from the shop page to the games library.
When searching for games that have local / online multiplayer or coop play you are forced to look up each game separately.
I have several hundred games in my library so that might take a while.
This really annoys me about steam.
Oh god yes.
Well, my biggest complaint is that the section where it shows if it's local co-op, single player, achievements, controller support, etc... is on the STORE page. Once you buy the damn game, if you are looking through your library for something, you have to keep bouncing between the store and the library is incredibly annoying. I have 830 games under Linux and 1980 under Windows, so imagine how long it takes to even scroll through my library...
I to have ended up putting my games in a local co-op section, but sometimes games are kind of off on what they support. For example the 'co-op beta' of Satellite Reign isn't actually a local co-op mode, even though it clearly shows that it is. Their 'local co-op' is LAN play.... Which is NOT how anyone else defines it.
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Russian territories? Is it a some kind of trolling?
There are CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), but CIS doesn't include Baltic countries (which are in EU now), Georgia since 2008 (not a state of US, but a state somewhere in Caucasus mountains), some countries in grey zone, such as Pridnestrovie, Abhazia, South Alania-Osetia...
About the prices. Prices in CIS region, usually calculates as half (50%) of US prices, shows and pay out in US dollars. With one exception - Russia, they have their own currency in Steam (Russian Rubles), and independent prices. Usually, their ruble prices even lower, than CIS-prices (especially, since economical crisis in Russia in late-2014). For example, if you wanna be in caterogy "under 300 rubles", it may be $5 USD today or $4.50 tomorrow, because price is fixed in their national currency, and their currency is very volatile because of War in Ukraine, and oil prices.
There are CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), but CIS doesn't include Baltic countries (which are in EU now), Georgia since 2008 (not a state of US, but a state somewhere in Caucasus mountains), some countries in grey zone, such as Pridnestrovie, Abhazia, South Alania-Osetia...
About the prices. Prices in CIS region, usually calculates as half (50%) of US prices, shows and pay out in US dollars. With one exception - Russia, they have their own currency in Steam (Russian Rubles), and independent prices. Usually, their ruble prices even lower, than CIS-prices (especially, since economical crisis in Russia in late-2014). For example, if you wanna be in caterogy "under 300 rubles", it may be $5 USD today or $4.50 tomorrow, because price is fixed in their national currency, and their currency is very volatile because of War in Ukraine, and oil prices.
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