Steam is a store and it's a private company. If there's a crash and there are less new releases, people will still buy old games and, while Steam will make less money, there won't be shareholders complaining about it.

Remember that, for all intents and purposes, EA has been bought by the Saudis and Trump's son in law. I don't think EA is in danger right now.

Ubisoft is in deep sh*t, as well as Embracer, Nacon and who knows how many more.

If any of you have a Gigabyte motherboard, this may be of interest:

Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/two-high-rated-motherboard-security-vulnerabilities-have-been-identified-in-gigabyte-control-center-so-come-update-your-software-along-with-me/
As an owner of a Gigabyte motherboard, I am intimately familiar with the intricacies of the Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) app. We've had issues in the past, me and that particular program. Anyway, there's an even better reason to update it now, as the company has posted two separate advisories relating to a pair of particularly nasty security vulnerabilities.

Good for everyone.

The bigger the Linux and MacOS numbers go, the more worried MSoft will be, and that will mean less AI crap shoved down our throats and a more polished Windows. Everybody wins, except MSoft.

Talking about Windows:

Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix for Windows 11 Update Installation Errors
https://www.techpowerup.com/347925/microsoft-issues-emergency-fix-for-windows-11-update-installation-errors
Late last week, Microsoft released its KB5079391 non-security feature update for Windows 11, which was officially pulled due to widespread installation errors. Today, the company is issuing the out-of-band KB5086672 update to address this problem, as Microsoft has identified the source of the issue and the update can now be safely applied. This latest out-of-band KB5086672 update includes the KB5079473 package released on March 10, KB5085516 released on March 21, and the previously pulled KB5079391 released on March 26. Microsoft has combined all of these into the new KB5086672 package, which addresses the issues that appeared and introduces a variety of new features. Finally, the old installation error message, "Some update files are missing or have problems. We'll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x80073712)," has been resolved for good.

It is the first time linux is above 5% but windows still dominates.

This is the standing 

It seemed to take forever to break past the 2% margin for Linux everytime it looks like progress it would drop the following month and/or the Simplified Chinese influx would happen and make it jump around more and whilst I expect it to drop next month to balance out the marketshare is gradually going up, It's nice to see that people are finally realising you don't need Windows for gaming anymore.

I know for EA, hence why I said that pretty much all they're doing now releasing their yearly football update and be done with it. Not really much of publishing anymore for a AAA publisher, eh?

And totally unrealistic that the Linux share (and MacOS share) more than double within 1 or 2 months.

It's bad data again.

Since you check the data more than the rest of us, I have to ask: is this month's data wrong or was the data from February the wrong one? I remember it had the problem of counting too many chinese computers, but I don't know if that also had an effect on the OS front.

I don't think they will crash, just size down or become more focused.

Honestly, I think Steam would be perfectly fine if most AAA publishers would disappear - there is just so much indie/A/AA content on it - sure, Gabe would be able to buy so much yachts, but gaming would be perfectly fine when it comes what matters, choice and quality.

If AAA disappears, yes, I agree with you. They'd make less money but they'd still do rather well.

If AAA disappears from Steam to go somewhere else, then I'm not so sure. And I'm talking about all the AAA games, not just a few Ubisoft or Activision titles like in the past.
But that's for another topic.