Asking Valve for Steam Survey Results

[Bryan Haskins]

That is pretty fricking cool. It's not an astronomical figure and
realistically could be contended from many directions but still some idea of
the userbase, I call that significant. =]

On Nov 14, 2007 11:52 AM, Brian Vincent <brian.vincent at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Nov 13, 2007 4:45 PM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> > Does anyone know whom we can contact at Valve for more specific results?
>
> Here's the answer from Valve to your question:
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> Hey Brian, we would be more than happy to help. I just did a quick query
> for the audio device and found 12 out of 8566 results to contain "wine"
> in the name of the driver. I did the same for video card and found zero,
> if you can give me more details on specific strings or signatures for a
> wine user I could have a look for. We just started this survey today so
> I can run the queries again once we have a larger sample set.
>
> Our crash reporting system also collects information about the existence
> of wine, about 0.4% of the reports are from Wine users (this is for a
> couple months of data so a statistically significant sample). We have
> around 3 million unique users in a month so that is around 12k wine
> users. Given the large majority of crashes are game code related (and
> not OS dependant) I suspect this is a fair measure for you.
>
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> -Brian
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Cheers,
Bryan
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