• CapraObscura@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For anyone that doesn’t see my post lower down: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-June-2023-Statistics

    Steam breaks down OS user numbers by distro. This information is out there.

    Valve is not about to start lying about numbers and it’s utterly baffling that anyone would think they would. They rely 100% on the trust of publishers and developers. If they lied about their numbers, which these companies use to generate sales projections and make seriously massive financial decisions off of, they would be immediately dumped by everyone and subject to massive antritrust lawsuits.

    Valve has done little to upset the games industry, because they understand their position is actually quite precarious.

    • firecat@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If you committed a crime than someone asked you if you commit the crime, that doesn’t mean you committed the crime. What you said is based on sources on Valve website, Valve numbers, on Valve data collection and Valve Employees. You can not prove the numbers are real or fake, they are only numbers in a crime that would otherwise lead to the bigger crime.