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"What's your favourite store to buy a game?"
[ ] Steam
[ ] GoG
[ ] Humble
[ ] Itch.io
[ ] 3rd party Steam key sellers
[ ] other
"Favourite" wouldn't be subject to frequent changes.
Maby one should add something like ("it it would be available at all stores") or the like.
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Edit to add... holy cow, there are THREE such people. Three. smh.
Last edited by scaine on 25 February 2021 at 1:45 pm UTC
But if the question would be more like: where did you buy games in the last month? And then you select the stores you used to buy something. And with buy I mean actually paying money, not grabbing the free EGS game. This could reflect if a store became suddenly interesting, because of an exclusive has been released (e.g. Stadia). Of course there should be a way for Linux users to use this store and play its games. But I think atm they are all somehow useable (lutris, heroic, Chrome browser)
What do you think about an option for subscriptions? Stadia Pro, Geforce Now, EA Access, etc.?
Wouldn't be a PC Info survey anymore, but well ;)
Problem with that is the same as with the wine/proton questions that used to be there. It changes too frequently to keep the data somewhat reliable. For that sort of thing you'd be better off running a periodic poll to get the view of the moment.
The favourite store question has issues too though. Humble serves as a both a key reseller for all stores and a distributor of DRM free builds. But at least it's not likely to change frequently.
How could you not recognize my ASCII art checkboxes?!? :D
This - obviously! :p - is what a radio button looks like:
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Yes, but it would have the problem the WINE question had back in the days: It would need frequent updates by the users, which most people probably won't do.
It was a good job I wasn't drinking my coffee when I read this. :)
I really did laugh out loud.
Last edited by buono on 25 February 2021 at 3:42 pm UTC
Are you alright scaine?
I did recognize the checkboxes, but the question "What's your favourite store to buy a game?" implied for me only one possible answer, which would result in a radio button ;)
Hmmm, I thought the monthly friendly reminder would help with that. At least I'm quickly cross checking every time if my answers are still up to date. And I'm sure everybody else does so too
Well, I'm clearly 11 monitors short of "alright", but otherwise fine, I suppose.
Well, to be fair, if you want to run all 12, you'd also need two extra GPUs.
"Which store did you use last year" maybe ? Or in the last 3 month. Or In "Which store would you consider buying game". The updating stuff makes the wording very important.
Maybe it's a statistic to do yearly during the Gaming On Linux award. Aside from which is your favorite game of the year asking how many games do you purchase this year and in which store.
Last edited by axredneck on 25 February 2021 at 6:43 pm UTC
Last edited by scirocco on 25 February 2021 at 10:05 pm UTC
I've mentioned it before, but for me Proton can mean "no Tux, some bucks." Without Linux support there's no way they're getting full price, but if they haven't made their game not work in Proton then there's a chance they could get a couple of quid. More if they've committed to keeping it working, rather than having it work by accident and stop working at some point in the future by accident.
Last edited by CatKiller on 1 March 2021 at 1:41 am UTC
That's a great point. Every single game I've bought that's Windows-only has either been through Humble Choice or an absolutely mahooosive sale on Steam. Like 75%+ sale. Meanwhile, I'll generally pay full price for a Linux native game.