Summing up the results of the 2020, Steam reminded of the path done in a year, and also shared statistics-so she interests us. So, the pandemic contributed to the new records:
We will dwell on specific topics below.
Shop
In the period from the winter sale of 2019 to the winter sale of 2020, the number of games that earned more than $ 100,000 increased by 36 %.
- 4 million users from 202 countries loaded at least one demo version,
- adding to the lists of the desired increased on average by 82 %,
- Millions of people watched direct broadcasts,
- Hundreds of thousands of users watched the video developers in the spotlight.
Steam glasses program
Steamvr
104 million game sessions in virtual reality, while on average the VR session lasted about 32 minutes, which led to an increase in the total playing time by 30 %.
Controllers
46.6 million users played with controllers. For comparison: by the end of 2019 there were 31.8 million. Last year in 1.68 billion gaming sessions used a controller that 66.6 % more than 1.01 billion sessions in 2019.
452 million of these sessions were held in games with an integrated Steam input system, which is 232 million sessions more than in the previous year.
Increased traffic
Release Cyberpunk 2077 set a download traffic record, which rose to 52 terata per second (26 terata per second during the pre -load), which is twice as many as the last record.
Support Service
The support service processed 13 million appeals (without taking into account requests for a refund), which is 5 % more than in 2019, and almost twice as much as in 2017.
Plans for 2021
Search for ways to interest potential users of Linux games and investing in technologies that improve the compatibility and performance of games using Steam Play.
You can find out about the most successful games in Steam for 2020.
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If not for the "basket", then they would have long been bent … Eh and really sorry = (
They switch to new Windows not only because of the new graphic API, but also because of other whistles and frauds + the outfits themselves will eventually stop supporting their software on the old versions of the operating room, which in some cases is critical.
It is also worth noting that the structure of the catalogs in the line for an amateur (less familiar to the usual layman), as well as software, is not always placed by pumping the “Next” button, which also complicates the work.
Undoubtedly, the distributions of the line are an excellent replacement and the future alternative to Windows as a gaming platform, but alas, the breasts themselves do not make native software and games for the operating room, it will not become a full replacement for a very long time.
Search for ways to interest potential users of Linux games and investing in technologies that improve the compatibility and performance of games using Steam Play.
The immense respect to them for how much they have already invested in Linux and its relevance as a game platform.
And if this is a hint of the resurrection of Steamos, then it can be an ultimatic Win-Win for everyone. As for those who never wanted to bother with Linux, but thanks to the simplicity of the system from Volvo, he will be able to evaluate freedom from Microsoft telemetry and Windows updates. So those who are already playing on Linux and deciding that installing on a new car will want to skip the first half an hour of setting up the system for games and with full confidence in Valve will put it
And this, damn it, is the most successful time that can be presented for the resurrection of Steamos.
With Linux core 5.11 on the way (in February a stable version will be released), Valve, which helped to add the coolest features into it, can make a gold standard of how to use them.
And if she really resurrects, then I will put her on the main computer, because even before high -profile announcements, she already promises to become an immensely epic event
In last fall, in the framework of a small experiment, I sat on Manjaro Linux for a month, and it really impressed me with its performance and lightweight (even on a hard disk, it starts furious, my memory and disk are not loaded in 100% incomprehensible services), here it was serious, if there were no problems with compatibility and the absence of some programs, I would have crossed a long time ago.
And you can explain that it is you who are so inspired by the use of Linux as a game platform? I myself, as a web developer, work exclusively under it, but here is the prospect of turning it into a game platform, and not a workhorse, for me it is still incomprehensible. It is possible to approach the PC with the corresponding highly specialized distribution to the philosophy of consoles (t.e. Minimization of the need to configure something and, in principle, minimizing the requirements for the user, “stuck and play”)? Or something else?
Here is the whole thing in the competition that is not. Micrics have enough resources for bribery and to set up in different ways in different ways. But I remember when all the buch with Stymos / Steammashin began, the same micrics rested with their GFV, as a result, everyone dispersed peacefully and did not become either one or the other. If (if. ) Gaben this time will be more dull, and at this time he has more chances for bribery and for other methods of influence, then, quite possibly, something will burn out, at least with games. But this is so, thoughts out loud. You can agree that the USS with Steam will unite, so that all the monopolists are bombed at once, although ..
And how much BP they did not write.
Will eat less resources, more capacities will go to the games themselves.
As an option for additional OS. And if you take into account that to switch to new Windows, hiding the notorious directths, there are no other special reasons, then you can and how to put or start to slowly cross/study “not Windows” as a basis.
Since such a conversation has already begun, then Linux by performance as Makos? I have how MacBook appeared, I began to wildly enrage Windows on the systematic. Is it worth it to put Linux for working software like Zd Max?
Native (that is, adapted specifically under Linux) there is no 3DS Max version there, just like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office (a client for an online version does not take into account), even if you can install them through some Wine or Playonlinux, then only the old versions.
Of course, there are still free analogues on Open Source, but they can reject their unusual or lack of any functionality.
And you can explain that it is you who are so inspired by the use of Linux as a game platform?
This is less desire to use Linux as a game platform, and more desire to use Linux, instead of Windows
As mentioned above, Linux does not force to buy SSD if you do not want the system brakes from random 100% loading hard disk.
As well as not pushing updates that have become Voyazytsya parables thanks to their surpises (“You now have Candy Crash Saga! Remove all garbage for the third time!") And obsessions (while on Linux updates, updates not only do not cause so much pain, but also automatically update drivers for video cards and processors). As it does not make settings, a labyrinth from a bunch of generations of interfaces. As it does not suffer from the inferiority of built -in tools (also a programmer). And does not turn the googling of small tools for specific problems, in search of a needle in a stack of garbage, advertising and viruses.
I am sitting Manjaro Cinnamon, where I enjoy zero of the above problems. I am happy to use it to write code, simple web surfing and (thanks to Valve and the creators of Wine and DXVK), enjoying 95% of my library, with zero problems (the only competitive multiplayer in Windows is Overwatch, Titanfall 2 and Apex. +Sometimes Valvovsky KS and TF2. So because of the antithee that checks the core, I lost only APEX. And the remaining 90% of my library is a single and a coope, which works impeccably).
The only thing that seduces me to return to Windows is Game Pass. But he is not available in Ukraine. So even in the game plan, for me there is no point in returning from Linux to Windu.