The Egg wrote:The Steam survey has always been useless. In the past, you had over 30% of cards in the "Other" category, and now you've 10 out of the top 10 cards being at least Maxwell, a complete lack of one vendor, and still double-digits in the "Other" category. You can just about toss all those numbers.
I don't buy it, sorry. To start, most of the anti-steam hardware survey sentiment I see regularly online is so uncomfortably ignorant it hurts. I mean, people describing
sampling (yes, really!) and then scoffing and saying that it makes the survey useless...?
It's seriously "I can't even" territory, and it's everywhere.
Likewise with the argument (that Lordhawkwind even used) "*I* never reply, so it's BS". Again,
what?And what you are saying? I mean, OK, but nothing in your criticism invalidates the way Kougar used it, sorry.
Unless you are alleging that Steam (or something else) is systematically "othering" AMD offerings, which you don't, so what? You're just shotgunning buts (but this, but that, but else!) at someone else's barn.
Also, I'm not even sure what "other" means, because it might just be the aggregate of everything below a threshold, and if that threshold is what changed, -not- the attribution, what you are saying is essentially an artifact of presentation.
The Egg wrote:Steam is very clearly only polling upon new installs
No, it very clearly isn't. (They just asked me again last week).
I think you have some misconceptions here.
The Egg wrote:and then mis-identifying an unacceptable number of cards.
How are you so sure that's what is happening, as I mentioned above?
I'm loathe to just take your word for it when you've already demonstrated that you're preceding from preconceptions a lot more than actual knowledge.
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EDIT: To be clear, what you are guys are saying is deeply counter-intuitive because
there is every reason to think that AMD is bleeding gamer market share. There isn't much of any reason to think the contrary, but that's exactly what you all must be assuming when you discount other evidence that reinforces what we *should* see.
Again, we need to refrain from being normative, because this isn't about what's good or right, it's simply about understanding reality, however unfortunate. Again, I say this because I'm someone who has switched teams every. single. time. for the last 5 cards
at least. And, please, I'm *really* getting tired of repeatedly reading "green-tinted glasses" in response to posts that don't even remotely warrant it.