There’s also a modest proposal for those into satire.

Whale economy as seen in f2p games.

Starve the community around you with higher prices, make all your money with the few who buy bottled mineral water for car wash.

a PS5 is a much better choice these days.

if you upgrade your PC to “PS5 level of graphic detail” your whole library of games (starting from the original Doom/Quake in ray tracing, upscaled texture pack etc.) get upgraded.

If you buy a PS5… then only the games you buy specifically for the PS5 will run at PS5 graphics.

To this add that, on PC, you can buy second hand GPU that matches PS5 fidelity (both Nvidia or AMD)

…it their money aren’t already gone for a 999$ monitor stand.

SteamDeck buyers on the other side…

Same perks and disadvantages apply on all platforms Steam collect data from. My guess Valve do apply some weird AI algorithm to determine missing data. IE (just speculation) if there are Steam Decks that never go in Desktop Mode the algorithm pushes itself more widely in the array of the SDs that do.

One thing worth to remember, Valve always knows which binary executable connect to their server (and today very few use Steam’s windows .exe through WINE), the survey is just them asking permission to eventually use your data: is not a commitment, they can fix/screw the statistical data anyway they see fit… I think mostly to fight those who cheat with the stats… Chinese language jumped few time over English (making English a secondary language on Steam) and Valve “fixed” those published data too!