Hmm... how about people buying it on Windows, still wishing for a Linux version, and when made available play it on Linux then?
Those aren't counted as Linux, right?
As Windows having over 90% market share, this isn't unlikely. Valve should make available stats, which show how the percentages are where people are playing their games. This would be a much more accurate number for the devs, than only on which platform a game is bought.
Also there might be a significant percentage of players waiting for having enough games on Linux before they stop dualbooting. Those people might also buy their games primarily on Windows instead of Linux.
Of course this is just a guess, as there aren't any official numbers, and devs can only see on which platform their games are bought.

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You can also watch it directly on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/534600/ [External Link]

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Yeah let's see how the performance on my old rig will be. I'm still enjoying Feral's ports (like Tomb Raider or Mad Max) on it, with decent framerates and not even on lowest settings.
Looking forward to this game! Hopefully the predecessor will also be ported.

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I would love to see Homeworld Remastered on Linux, but looks like Gearbox wasn't pleased by the sales of their Borderlands ports?

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Another aspect is, this will vanish over time.
Hardware is getting more and more powerful, but good games can be played at any time. Even when they are already a few years old (which is a lot regarding the fast paced times nowadays).
E.g. I still like to play Aliens vs Predator (2010). It doesn't perform very well on my desktop (C2Q, GTX670) in wine, but it's running perfect in wine on my new notebook hardware (i7, GTX1070). I would love to have a supported port, even if it would use wine on steam then. Just the requirements would be higher than on Windows.
Nevertheless my desktop is still powerful enough to play Alien: Isolation, Tomb Raider, Mad Max at playable framerates. So I don't see a reason to upgrade my desktop too (especially as the notebook was expensive enough *g*).

So I guess with my new hardware even a port of Batman: Arkham Knight would have been playable.

Nevertheless there is a chicken-egg problem. If ported games have a bad performance (unbearable to play performance), people won't buy them, so devs/porters aren't getting money and won't port more games. Additionally most people prefer to play recent games, and not games which are already half a decade old.

Personally I'm fine with ports of games, which are already finished with their sales on windows. I prefer to get more games ported, and play them later on a newer hardware than having no ports.

And as Feral is doing a really good job in porting, I think the performance discussion is mainly from people looking at benchmark numbers rather than at gameplay fun.
Of course it's a valid argument, but imho it doesn't have as much weight as it seems. Otherwise the SmachZ kickstarter campaign wouldn't be successful. There people already know they won't have the best performance playing games. But it will be enough to enjoy playing them.

Yeah, I see, I should also send some cookies to aspyr, cheese, feral, flibit, icculus, knockout_games, ttimo, etc pp... all the lovely people bringing us the games we long for ;)

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Pretty decent performance on my old desktop:
Core2Quad Q9550 (unsupported) @2.8GHz
8 GB DDR2
GTX 670 (driver 370.28)
Native resolution (1680x1050)
Not on minimum settings and getting between 40 to 80 FPS which is very well playable.

Unfortunately I couldn't buy it on the Feral store, as I didn't want to pay 2.50€ for additional fees (e.g. for paypal), and due to a verification issue credit card didn't work (have to sign up for 3-D security on my VISA first).

But as I'm playing on Linux I hope this also counts ;)

Many many Kudos to Feral for another great game brought to Linux!

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I'm a little bit torn about this device.
On the one hand, cool! Mobile PC Gaming. And from the stats, a lot of games could run decent enough for some mobile fun.

On the other hand... an expensive gadget that will be already outdated when it's being released. New games which will be released from now might even not run properly anymore on that device.

I want them to succeed, I was thinking about pledging. But the early bird tiers have already been gone some minutes after the start, and I recently got new hardware, so I want to save some money.

Their custom Linux version sounds interesting though. It's cool to read they are recommending Linux, as they can better adopt to their hardware. I'm curious how this turns out. Maybe I'll get the second version, if it succeeds.

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Quoting: lvlark

Quoting: CorbenWarcraft III (wine)

Now there's an idea. I've played all official single player campaigns a handful of times, but haven't touched the game since I switched to Linux a few years ago.

We're playing with the Frozen Throne addon and version 1.26 as most community maps aren't patched for version 1.27. And we mostly play funmaps like various tower defense maps and such.

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Meanwhile I barely start Windows to play my games, as there is either a native version, or it runs perfectly in wine. Even though I haven't played a lot in single player, I played a lot multiplayer. Especially as I've been to some LAN parties recently.
Among those games are: FlatOut 2 (Linux version from gog), Warcraft III (wine), Aliens vs Predator (2010, running perfectly in wine, also its dedicated server), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (wine + special registry entry = perfect), No Man's Sky (also perfect with wine), Rocket League, PayDay 2, Unreal Tournament (Alpha) and DotA 2.

My favorite from that list is AvP atm. This game makes so much fun in multiplayer and its different game modes. There is of course the classic deathmatch and team deathmatch, but already those modes get spiced up by the different species. As you can have species modes, where for example marines fighting aliens fighting predators. Or mixed species team deathmatch, where you can choose your species. There are also modes like domination (capture and hold control points), predator hunt (only the player who is the predator can score) and my favorite mode: infestation.
In this mode you have to survive the alien infestation. Meaning one player is chosen randomly to be the first alien. All other players are marines. Each marine the alien kills is becoming an alien on respawn... "warning: infestation is reaching critical level" :D Until only on marine is left in a last man standing mode. It's so much fun!

I wish I would have more time to play, and when I have time, I wish I would be more in the mood to play ;)
Nevertheless, there are only a very few games for me worth booting into Windows. Which are Elite: Dangerous and Doom. Hope both will be running sooner or later also on Linux.

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Just have fallen in love with wine again.
I'm at a LAN party just now, and don't need to boot into Windows to play the games needed for tournaments or just to play for fun. Among orhers:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (also its dedicated server)
- FlatOut 2
- No Man's Sky
All working really great with wine. So cool!

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