Quoting: operaI don't get the negative attiude of this article. It's not Linux fault that a game gets low sales numbers overall. All what matters here (from our Linux based point of view) is the percentage of Linux sales and that number is quite nice in this case. Cheers!

I deal in harsh truths sometimes, I don't fanboy everything about Linux gaming to sugar-coat it.

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Quoting: XzylSupport costs on all platforms Liam, if n hours is dedicated to this everyday issues get backed up but there isn't actually a cost overhead unless he himself/they themselves can't fix the problems in house or have to hire an additional programmer for lack of knowledge on said platform.

A very obvious point, yes support costs on all platforms, but the more platforms you have: the more issues you will get.

There is always an overhead: time.

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Quoting: liamdawePercentage wise it's higher than normal, but a percentage is meaningless when you look at the figures I quoted from him.

I can't agree here. Percentage are interesting because you can see Mac + Linux at 10%. The figures about sales are low in the global. It's not something in relation with Linux.

And you can quote this part too :

That’s not amazing, but it’s not nothing either. Alone, that’s not quite enough to pay rent, much less completely cover the cost of developing another game, much less actually turn a profit. But in conjunction with my remaining savings, income from contract work, additional revenue from Eldritch, and my wife’s income, we’re staying afloat.

So in general is no doing any profit on this game for the moment.

That's part of my point, even if it sold well, the percentage is still low and would still have given very little money.

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Quoting: GuestHow is 4% low? It’s huge!

Percentage wise it's higher than normal, but a percentage is meaningless when you look at the figures I quoted from him.

$1,900 - That's from Mac and Linux combined over a year. I don't see that being a good thing, hence me saying it's Low, which it is.

Quoting: Mountain ManIn terms of raw percentages, 4% is pretty darn good for Linux.

The he says, "I would estimate I’ve earned roughly $1,900 on those platforms. They continue to be a net loss for now." Really? It cost him over $2000 to create a Linux and OSX build?

Support costs money too remember, support can take a lot of time away from everything else.

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Guys, flesk has already made a forum post to debate DRM https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/1758 leave this article free of it.

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It's also an issue for me, I only see a half screen, and I'm not fucking about with my setup for one game.

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Oh we will see it STiAT, ports are the whole reason he's done all the work on it and blogged about it.

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Yeah I have a habit of trying to build everything possible, without thinking about managing my economy, oops.

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Quoting: Stupendous ManI've held out on buying this game because so many people are reporting performance issues on Linux, which never seems to be fixed; has it become any better now?
According to rumours the performance was much better during beta, and suddenly went down close to release. The developers don't seem to know why...

It is not a rumour, i had pre-release access and reported on it directly. Performance is still an issue, but it's not like it's a first person shooter, it's not a game breaking issue.

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Quoting: FuriousJust wanted to say that this presentation has been already on the internet few weeks ago. But it was from different angle, like it wasn't the official one. Worth mentioning before someone will waste 2 hrs of their lives again ;) Either way, I don't think we will know anything more untill release. On every further presentation we got the same informations.

It was not something I saw before, and we didn't cover it on GOL, so it's news to me.

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