Asking Valve for Steam Survey Results

[Alfred Reynolds]

The numbers are now 0.13% of total reports coming from Wine users.

- Alfred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wine-devel-bounces at winehq.org [mailto:wine-devel-
> bounces at winehq.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ritchie
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 3:41 AM
> To: Brian Vincent
> Cc: Wine Devel
> Subject: Re: Asking Valve for Steam Survey Results
> 
> Brian Vincent 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:
> >
> > ----
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ----
> 
> Thank you so much Brian.  Could we get an update with more recent
stats
> from the survey?  It's had a few weeks to run now.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
>