Jeff Atwood (a decent programming blogger over at Coding Horror) recently had a post about listening (or not in this case) to your users if your role is a software developer. As a part of that post, he referenced some information that I didn't realize was available. Valve has posted a slew of information about how people play their games.

For example would you care to make a guess as to how much RAM the average user of Steam has? 38% have 2GB or more. 25% have less than one GB. Amazingly, over 2500 poor souls have less than 255MB. Wow. And Realtek has come to dominate the sound card market - Creative can't be happy with that. For more on the hardware specs, you can take a look at them here.

If you go to the main stats page you can also get some interesting stats about different Valve games including the time taken to complete certain games including the classes most often played in Team Fortress 2 and the most played Half Life 1 mods. Sweet.

Posted by scottsh at Thursday February 28, 2008 - 6:23 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Game Design | © 2008 Gaming Signal