Is the Steam Hardware Survey Rigged? Short Answer: No, but...
258Well is the Steam Hardware/Software Survey rigged? Rather, can it be trusted? Not many ppl talk about this so I wanted to make a video on it. The Survey is very useful for Valve, Game Devs, and Manufacturers (like AMD, Nvidia, and Intel), that I don't see a practical reason for it to be rigged. It is something Valve makes available to the public that is cool to see but it isn't even really for us. What would the advantage be to inflate numbers here? It would only go to strike the company back in the end.
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
https://hardforum.com/threads/steam-hardware-surveys-are-they-accurate.2011883/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/7h48rw/the_steam_hardware_survey_bias_against_linux/
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-looks-to-be-catching-up-with-amd-discrete-gpu-matket-share
https://www.pcworld.com/article/394207/how-to-make-your-pc-take-the-steam-hardware-survey.html
0:00- In best interest to be as accurate as possible
1:04- "It surveys AMD less"
2:56- "It surveys Linux less"
4:54- Why it's random
5:57- Net Cafes
8:24- How Steam could improve
9:31- Hot take
10:37- Can it be trusted?