Linked by Kroc Camen on Tue 30th Dec 2008 23:21 UTC
Indie game developer Wolfire Games gives 5 solid reasons why games developers should support Mac OS X and Linux. [via TUAW]
"Obviously supporting Mac OS X and Linux means you tap into another platform and expand your potential market base. That much is clear. But surely adding an extra 5% is negligible, right? Wrong. Not all five percents are created equal." For their game Lugaru, they go on to claim "supporting Mac OS X and Linux directly increased sales by around 122%."
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I've always maintained that such attitudes are why Loki failed.
Point 3 in the article mentions very vocal minorities on Slashdot who "popularized" Lugaru since it had a Linux build. Funnily enough, it did not provide any figures as to the number of Linux clients they sold. How many of those in the vocal minority were screaming for the game to be Free and Open Sourced? How much of that publicity translated into actual sales?
That's been my experience with Linux evangelists. 9 out of 10 are rabid FOSS supporters.