[ut3] Unreal Tournament 3 and Gears of War Linux Status

[Matthew Thompson]

> If I go down to EB and pick up a copy of UT3
today, that will show up as yet another sale of the Windows copy of the
game.

Very true. But what happens when the company looks at the real, concrete
numbers of Linux users playing games? Either we finally get the recognition
we deserve or the company realizes that we _really_ don't matter compared to
the rest of the customers. (this is just a random thought)

I've considered buying from tuxgames.com before, actually. Unfortunately I
happen to be in college and constantly short on cash so I end up going with
sites with cheaper prices. Quake Wars is $60 from tuxgames while it's only
$30 from gogamer.com :(

On Dec 7, 2007 1:42 PM, Alex Malinovich <demonbane at the-love-shack.net>
wrote:

> Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > I couldn't care less if I had a boxed version or not. I always end up
> > installing 100s upon 100s of mb patches after installation anyway, so
> > whats wrong with using a client patch on a Win32 cd? It's not worth
> > reprinting everything for a special edition when all they did was change
> > the miniscule portion of windows-specific code to some other OS.
>
> If it was purely about logic, you'd be absolutely right. But
> unfortunately, this is about marketing. And in our case, WE are the ones
> trying to do the marketing, not the ones being marketed to. Companies
> want to see hard numbers. If I go down to EB and pick up a copy of UT3
> today, that will show up as yet another sale of the Windows copy of the
> game.
>
> On the other hand, if they have a specific Linux version, or if I buy
> from a Linux-only retailer like tuxgames.com, that sale shows up as a
> Linux sale to the publisher's sales-drones. If we get enough of those
> over a long enough period, we can (hopefully) influence enough companies
> to follow in Epic's footsteps and support Linux with their new games.
>
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