Really excited! The Firaxis XCom game has been fantastic for me, and it looks like they've put a lot of thought into this sequel.

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If you want to get better information you need to ask how many hours were spent gaming on each platform. Then you'd probably see numbers go the way you're expecting/wanting.

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Planning on picking up one of these [External Link] for streaming this year. That's about as close as I will come to a "steambox" (not sure if I'll install SteamOS on it or just stick with Arch like I normally do these days)

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Quoting: CybaCowboyI've never heard of the series, but I looked it up on Steam and actually went to purchase the original two games... Only to discover that they're not available for Linux-based operating systems!

I don't buy the latter games in a series without buying the originals, so hopefully the other two games get ported to Linux-based operating systems at some point...

It'd be a shame if they don't though, because these games look very similar to the "Heroes of Might and Magic" series.

You've got Civ V, even though the previous games aren't available. This isn't any different in my opinion.

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Quoting: FeistUnfortunately, I already bought this in windows some months ago. But I'm at least waiting with installation & gaming until the Linux version arrives. (not sure if that makes any difference as far as the sales-statistics are concerned though....)

I'm having trouble finding the official line, but basically the platform attribution for the sale is decided in the first week. If you buy it on Mac or Linux it is assigned to that platform (anywhere else defaults to Windows). After a week it will look at what platform you have installed it and played it on the most. If you haven't installed it or played it, the sale platform is used.

It's important to know that while the sale platform is important (see: very important), the platform that the game gets played on is also important. Lets say you're like me and bought AoW3 when it was first released and have been playing it on Windows (this was before there was a suggestion that they would be doing a port). Once the game is out for Linux it will be important for me to actually play the game in Linux because those stats are being collected too. They will be able to see people who have switched over to using Linux as a platform, which will help them with future decisions to support the platform.

I have also put off buying the DLC until the Linux release, which will help reinforce my support of their support for my platform of choice.

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Shogun 2 (I greatly hope)

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That sucks (not for me, just in general). Hopefully it's only a temporary situation.

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I love Aspyr as I loved Loki back in the day. They are pushing foward, having to struggle with technology leaps from platform to platform. They are giving me good games to play on my platform of choice and I couldn't be happier to be not rebooting all the time these days.

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This was on my wishlist, but gave up because more and more Linux ports are important to me.
I am rather pleased with this turn of events.

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