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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2005-07-06
Have you tried to run your payed for Loki Entertainment Software game on todays Linux distributions?
It most probably wouldn't work.
Meanwhile the Windows version probably would run, on Linux!, using Wine. The Windows versions would surely run on Windows.
Maybe we should be glad that so few bought native Linux games from Loki.
And about sales, ask id software.