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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7553, member: 1"That user no longer has access to a game he paid for as it was removed from USC

According to the comments, they can still access the game - they just weren't looking in the right spot.

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By the way it also brings up issues like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/163dj6/super_meat_boy_purchased_via_uss_does_anyone_know/

That user no longer has access to a game he paid for as it was removed from USC

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its quite a waste to port some old games imo.
well at least for me they havent done anything i would play lately. used to play WoW back in the days tho..and still play warcraft 3 from time to time. but the newest stuff is pretty pointless for me..
nothing innovative, just same old shit with new shiny graphics, goes to all activision blizzard titles and activision alone.
also their money milking stuff... bleh from me...

but probably millions will say other things about those games so why not.

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there are more than those. who plays EA games anyway? nothing good hasnt been coming from there lately anyway...
same with Activisions-Blizzard .. just milking the money with few franchises they own. and just tweaking little bit the graphical quality every year without bringing anything innovative to the table.

well while many gamers do play EA, Activision and ubisoft games - there are still lots more than those.
Square Enix, Capcom, Bethesda(Zenimax), 2K Games, Eidos, all kinds of Sony departments, THQ, Rockstar, Gamersfirst (K2 Network) just to name some of them

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I hope it's Diablo3...........ho...wait.

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Interesting stuff.

Well Valve's numbers are already pretty impressive to me. Ubuntu in the Valve hardware survey is almost 1% and that (I imagine) doesn't even take into account non-Ubuntu Linux distros which I'm guessing comes under "Other" so the percentage could even be slightly higher overall. May not sound like much but consider Mac OS overall is a bit over 3% or something... and the Linux client is still in beta. It's promising.

I guess Blizzard is considering testing the waters for these reasons, though it's a pity they have their own DRM and nothing to do with Steam.

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Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7538, member: 223"Erm... Nope. Steam has this thing called "offline mode". Go try that with Diablo III. :/

Ah I don't own that, was going by Starcraft 2, guess each game varies on the DRM.

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was also on slasdot, anyways... ubuntu exclusives makes me a sad panda, what will be next, kickstarters with goals for other linux distro?

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I don't like it that they use it as 'testballoon'.
I think at this point Linux is just getting hyped, the real playercount is going to rise in the next months. If Blizzard would use the figures we now have they might decide that it's not worth it and after that never return.

Is it worth it guys? Are we there yet?

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7531, member: 1"Works a lot like Steam basically.

Erm... Nope. Steam has this thing called "offline mode". Go try that with Diablo III. :/

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I hope for WoW or Starcraft 2

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Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7535, member: 223"Because the odds increase no one will listen to the one in the corner saying "just go with tgz and be done with it, dammit"?

Or a MojoSetup installer.... or a NixInstaller... or just like what everyone else has done.

How much trouble has multiple distros done to HIB? I can not think of that much problems that were distro specific.

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Quoting: "Hamish, post: 7534, member: 6"Why is it that the more developers a studio has, the more scared they are of multiple Linux distros? :rolleyes:

Because the odds increase no one will listen to the one in the corner saying "just go with tgz and be done with it, dammit"?

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Why is it that the more developers a studio has, the more scared they are of multiple Linux distros? :rolleyes:

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They have said Update #4 will contain Linux info, apparently we are a vocal bunch.

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Works a lot like Steam basically.

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Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7528, member: 223"More seriously, I couldn't care less. Blizzard, eh? Not a cash cow, sorry. Plus they can stick their DRM where the sun doesn't shine.

What is Blizzard DRM like then? The last Blizzard title I have played is Warcraft II. :P

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Yeah i've no doubt other Distro's will find ways around Ubuntu stuff to get them to work and probably always will find a way!

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7527, member: 1"we can probably expect a lot more Ubuntu exclusives ending up in AUR within the first 20 minutes in the future.

FTFY.

More seriously, I couldn't care less. Blizzard, eh? Not a cash cow, sorry. Plus they can stick their DRM where the sun doesn't shine.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7522, member: 1"Wine - no idea I think they are counted under what windows version wine is showing as.

system settings with Steam under wine will show Wine also as OS, next to the windows version you put wine at

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It only counts users who fill it out when it pops up while logged unto Steam so someone who registered years ago on windows and isn't using Steam wouldn't be counted.

For dual hooters - whatever is you fill it out on.

Wine - no idea I think they are counted under what windows version wine is showing as.

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A few question about it:
1) Are we talkign about all users or ACTIVE users? Just because I registered 10 years ago doesn't mean I am Windoze user.
2) How dual booters were accounted for?
3) Did wine figures go to windows camp or Linux one?

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Thanks added Mac to the stats, will be very interesting to watch these stats and see if they grow at all.

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Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 7511, member: 1"0.8% are now Linux users and properly tracked

For the sake of completion, I beg to differ. Chances are the "Other" has quite a few other distros in it. So again, we have no proper numbers, but I guess somewhere around 1%-1.1% is a safe bet.

Mmh... Okay. Gotta grab for coffee, this is quite redundant with Bumadar's post. Sorry 'bout that. ^^"

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Quoting: "Xpander, post: 7510, member: 92"im sure they have been in talks with big publishers to get their new titles to steambox. so probably they are quite well prepared for it already

those big publishers:
EA: origin store
Ubisoft: rumours are they moving everything to uplay store in 2013
Activision: rumours are they moving their current store and everything else to Bnet

if the big 3 are not in on it, then 90% of the AAA titles won't be in on it

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Quoting: "Agmenor, post: 7515, member: 111"Is OS X (Mac) included in the "Other" or is it not accounted for in these stats ?

MacOS 10.8.2 64 bit 1.81% +0.32%
MacOS 10.7.5 64 bit 0.88% +0.16%
MacOS 10.6.8 64 bit 0.83% +0.05%
MacOS 10.7.4 64 bit 0.20% -0.07%

as for other, that can be other linux or even wine, who knows.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey (click on OS version to open it up)

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Is OS X (Mac) included in the "Other" or is it not accounted for in these stats ?

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I was laughing about some comments saying that HL3 might come to Linux first. :)
Now it seems this could actually happen. If Valve gets out a (Linux-based) Steam console, they might consider to choose HL3 as an exclusive release title. PC and other consoles may follow later.

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If it really wants to come this year then they will need some sort of library already there, every console does. So we should see in influx of more games up to the release of it I reckon.

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