The PC market isn't dying out, but people would have you believe that, and those people are usually certain PC sellers that aren't doing so well. Then the tabloids pick up on it and put their spin on it and suddenly omg the PC is dying. Not it's really not, and if you go by Steam alone it's growing all the time when they keep smashing their records.

Windows and Mac are both growing. I didn't even think to look at it that way either if I'm honest. That's actually an interesting point and another reason I wish Steam would track 100% of their user-base so that we could see.

The problem is no matter what community you engage with (Linux, Mac, Windows) you will always get replies of "your games suck" or the like.
Such is the way with the internet, and I haven't read all comment here, but I hope no one has said that. I try to keep it friendly here and I hope people report such pointless comments. Some people just tend to forget they are talking to a human at the end of the screen.

I will always support your work and got more hours out of RotT than I would care to admit (purchased it more than once too). Sadly your others games as I mentioned don't entice me, but I'm not saying they are good or bad due to not playing them.

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Quoting: avarisclarihttp://cheesetalks.twolofbees.com/humble/weekly [External Link]/?bundle=Puppy%20Games This has the weekly info on it. Looks about 15k-18k from Linux.

Actually they got about $3,897.86, I just spoke to Cheeseness to clarify that.

So, with Steam + their weekly sale they got what, around $15.8K from Linux in the last two years. That isn't a lot.

That's still not counting Desura which I believe was so low they never got a payout from, so they don't sell there any more.

Humble Store which is slow low they don't include it either.

The only two missing links are sales from the Humble Indie Bundle 2 which it was in wasn't it? I think it was also included in a later HIB 3 as an added game too, so are you counting them all?
Steam alone for you right now seems like an unfair way to gauge the market that probably had your games for a long time.

Also @puppygames didn't you do direct sales from your website for quite some time too? How do you count that?

Linux is a small market, and it is growing, but like others have plainly stated RotT for one has massive competition that it didn't have in the past, as the tower defence market has so many games now it's unreal.

There will be masses of Linux gamers who owned your games before Steam came to Linux, and I am one of them and again I'm sure it was from a HIB.

So, with that in mind and the weekly bundle why would you expect Steam sales to continue to grow for a small market that has had ample time to get your games outside of Steam?

That's not even taking into account steamplay where Linux gamers picked it up before they moved from Windows to Linux, but I imagine that's a small percentage, but still one to take into account regardless.

RotT is your only game that interested me and the others just don't look enticing to me personally, but that's not to say they are bad. They just aren't games I go for.

Like you said you have supported Linux for how many years? How many years of that was before Steam? A long time for a small market to already have your games one way or another.

> Edited a couple times to be clearer.

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Personally I am a big fan of RotT and think it's a quality game, but the others don't interest me.

I hope they do stick around and keep porting like they say they will.

That blog post that came up is full of truths, we are worth bugger all to any company when we pay so little and expect so much.

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I AM EXCITE.

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Something to remember is this is already a finished game, so it doesn't need artists, level designers, story developers or any of that.

Everything is in place, so it just needs someone to come in to move it all around to support Linux. Very different to a game that's in-development.

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It's odd as in January of this year they had 5% of Linux sales from Steam as they told us in http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-game-sales-statistics-from-multiple-developers.2963

I guess it levelled out after a few more months, but they still get more than a lot of developers we spoke to.

Also they aren't about to stop supporting Linux, but they feel right now it's not profitable.

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Updated it to include their tweet to me about it being Steam only, and a quote from reddit about the Humble Bundle.

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Quoting: Magevania1% of *7,000,000*. 7M is generally supposed to be the active Steam player base.

Well done captain obvious ;)

We are according to this survey around 1%, so this is how statistics work. Also it's 75 not 7 million ;)

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I think this month is best served as a test to get kinks out and ideas.

Next month we can look to use google as suggested.

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It was a mistake showing up in our lists now, but "Soon" to quote them from reddit about it. Hold onto your hats folks, and keep your wallets close.

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