Yeah, I'm the same as many of you guys - a year or two ago, I bought pretty much every game for Linux-based operating systems... But these days, now that the number of games for Linux-based operating systems is starting to get quite large, I'm quite picky.

Generally-speaking, I won't buy just any game for Linux-based operating systems these days... Though there are exceptions - such as when a major game studio releases a so-called "AAA" title, then I will usually purchase the game "just because it's for Linux-based operating systems" and I want to show the developer that we want games too.

I'm not going to lie - I'm not a big fan of "indie" titles and don't buy a whole lot of them... But I always check them out because one thing I do know, is that some "indie" titles are absolute gems!

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Quoting: badberyeah so 846 sales total so far, about 50 linux which means about 6%. That doesn't sound like a terrible percentage but obviously when your total sales are so low it's going to be hard to financially justify a port for a platform that makes up only a small part of them.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed this.

Back in reality, the Linux sales haven't done too badly, at least according to these numbers...

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GamingOnLinux is now one of my favorite sites... Of course, I'd love you even more if I won a couple of Steam keys for this game! ;)

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Quoting: adolson

Quoting: CybaCowboyAnd it's articles like this that prevent me from buying anything until support for Linux-based operating systems is actually offered

You're saying this like it's a bad thing... Why the hell *would* you buy anything that doesn't support your operating system??

Some games promise support for Linux-based operating systems... Only to fail to deliver (as is the case here).

That was my point - just like the author, I recommend users don't buy games that "promise" support for Linux-based operating systems, until the games actually materialize for Linux-based operating systems.

I learnt that the hard way, hopefully others do not.

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Quoting: GuestThe lab shuttered was the Operating System Research Centre. Nothing to do with their driver teams.
AMD employs people to work on the FOSS drivers. And they continue with their closed source efforts. And they're trying to combine the two.

Try again.

Regardless, their drivers are garbage and offer little - if any - performance benefits over Intel's embedded offerings...

I won't be buying a laptop with AMD graphics again, it's NVIDIA or nothing.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887They knew Marmalade didn't support Linux and yet they still dug their head in the sand and didn't care about their Linux fans and they had 3 years to think about this.

They assumed it supported Linux-based operating systems, and we know what they say about assumptions...

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: StyromaniacI've gotten the impression that AMD's OpenGL performance is worse than their DirectX performance while Nvidia's OpenGL performance is on par with their DirectX performance.

That's always been my impression, too...

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Quoting: CybaCowboy

Quoting: StyromaniacNext. I'm not holding my breath for Mantle, but I'm not skeptical of it arriving to Linux either.

Mantle?

Never mind [External Link].

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Quoting: StyromaniacNext. I'm not holding my breath for Mantle, but I'm not skeptical of it arriving to Linux either.

Mantle?

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Can anyone say "incompetent" (in reference to the developers, of course)?

And it's articles like this that prevent me from buying anything until support for Linux-based operating systems is actually offered (well, articles like this and my "Rebuild" experience below)... 50% of the time the developers just don't do their research (as this article implies, it's surprisingly common practice amongst even the most professional developers!), 25% of the time developers are making a cash-grab with no real intention of supporting Linux-based operating systems and 25% of the time developers take a "we'll get to it, eventually" approach, citing the small marketshare.

Take Plague: Evolved for example - they promised support for Linux-based operating systems at launch... Then it became "soon after launch"... Now it's "eventually".

Then there's Sarah Northway and her "Rebuild" franchise - Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville was supposedly going to have support for Linux-based operating systems at launch... Only for Sarah to do a "Woops, Adobe Air no longer supports Linux-based operating systems!"

I foolishly bought Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville prior to its launch, taking Sarah on her words... Only to discover the hard way that I should have waited.

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