Quoting: CheoghI've been waiting for this. :D

Quoting: HamishHonestly though, I am still a little surprised that it showed up for Linux, considering how difficult it was to get Blood onto GOG.com in the first place.

Why? All DOS-Games from GOG working fine on Linux, after some smaller adjustments to the DOSbox config file. Or if you are lazy run it with wine *cough*.

I'm only surprised that they haven't rebundled all DOS Games yet. As they work fine on Linux with DOSbox too.

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Quoting: liamdaweThe problem is that all developers we have spoken too always give us sales figures close to the survey numbers, so can the real number be that far off?

So there's no need to doubt what the numbers tells us, no reason to scream for foul play or doubtful poll practises here - we are small. Period. That's just the sober state of fact at this point in time.

Sure, but these numbers mean that we have at least 3 times more users since the first survey. Which also tells us that the developers have 3 times the number of sales at they had before. THERE is a growth, just don't get fixated on the ~1%. Look at the numbers behind!

I scream about foul play if I get the survey on windows only. On windows it pops up. Cool! Lets start Steam on Linux ... Nothing. Back to Windows and the survey shows up. Back to Linux ... Nothing. Back to Windows again. Yeah! Survey. And so on. EVERY MONTH! Is that really fair play? Nope!

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Don't look to much on the percentage. Look on the number of Linuxusers behind it and how it has grown over the last year(s). I think the first percentage with ~1% was about 400k Users and now this rough same percentage stands for 1,25 Million Users. Which is IMHO a nice growth :)

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Hmmm....well, I might give it try if it really shows up on Linux. But I hope that it is nothing like LEGO Unviverse, where LEGO was more focused on that crappy Big Bullshit Brother Mode then on the Gameplay itself. My dream would be a LEGO MMO in Minecraft Style :)

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Quoting: tobiushirogeriSo now i've got to find a way to use my nVidia card and driver under a Virtual machine (virtual box) to play Diablo III

I don't think that will work with Virtualbox, you might be better off with KVM.

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Quoting: Crazy PenguinLOL! Really? We are back on this now? 2% would mean a minimum 2 Million potential Linux customers (based on Steam numbers), which is quite a market share. But what do I care. Blizzards isn't making good games anymore.

*sigh*, going over this argument in IRC right now.

That 2% is an over-estimation, by a lot.

Lots of people (like me), already own their products. You can also be guaranteed a large portion supporting the petition and forum post also already sub to WoW/own other products by them.

The realistic number is far lower.

*sigh* Liam. I'm just joking around about his numbers. He is talking about 2% of the web. Which is a far higher number then 2 Million xD

That the real numbers are different is another story. Also I don't own all products from them. I have WoW and Starcraft 2 and I'm bored to hell with both games. So you can't count me as customer anyway.

Quoting: liamdaweYou need the developers, you need the support staff, you need to pay them, constantly, and not just once too. You also need extra time for Q&A on the platform, so Q&A staff need pay and time too.

That's not an argument. As Blizzard is making a shitload of money alone with WoW, and it is still not Free2Pay. So you have your constant money flow. Remember they had a Client for Linux already in the Beta as they didn't expect such high user numbers and such an high income. Not to talk about the years afterwards where they had the client available. Also they have their products for OSX already which makes it easy to port to Linux.

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244 - 248 games on Steam. Depends on which computer I use. Has anyone else this effect?

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LOL! Really? We are back on this now? 2% would mean a minimum 2 Million potential Linux customers (based on Steam numbers), which is quite a market share. But what do I care. Blizzards isn't making good games anymore.

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Quoting: BomyneQuestion: I know OSX is based on an Unix core... and I saw X11 installed on my Mac... How different is OSX from linux? More to the point, would it be difficult to port the OSX versions of the games to Linux?

Depends on the game and which libraries/game engine aso it uses. If it has proprietary dependancy which has no linux support then this can really a road blocker :/. But if everthing fine and is available for Linux then it isn't a big deal. Still a bit of effort, but a huge difference to porting the game from Windows to Linux.

Aspyr mentionend once that if they have ported a game to OSX, then it is only a small step to port the game to Linux: 90% is done with OSX port already, so they have only to port the remaining 10%.

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I couldn't care less! The time as the name "Blizzard" was standing for great games is long over. If they would have released a Linux client for World of Warcraft in the first two years, that would have been awesome. But if I look at the games which have been released since and what WoW has become. No, thanks! I'm not interested in their casual monetize crap!

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