Asking Valve for Steam Survey Results

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sat Nov 24 05:40:34 CST 2007


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:
> 
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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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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



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