[ut3] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Keith Z-G]

Brizz brings up a good point. I know back in the day, Ryan commented
that the UT2004 master server showed about 10 times as many *Linux*
users than it showed OSX users; still single-digit numbers, but it
seemed to show that if you're figuring it's worth targeting OSX then
it's pretty obviously worth targeting Linux. Now, OSX has grown quite
a bit since those days, but there's also a hell of a lot more people
running Linux now (it's no longer exclusively the domain of a
particular subset of geeks).

There's the perception that because OSX is put out there by a visible
and single company (which spends tons of money making their products
appear everywhere) that it's orders of magnitude more popular than
Linux, but not only is that misleading, I think it forgets that
there's a far larger overlap between "people geeky enough to pay for
computer games" and "people running Linux" than the former and "people
running OSX". So apart from raw numbers of sales and players most of
what people are spouting is going to be a bit divorced from the actual
reality.

As such, I present for your consideration:

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Just take a look at the sales percentages, and I think that shows
pretty clearly that there can't be 10 times more Mac gamers than Linux
gamers; hell, if those numbers are representative (which of course, as
a single skewed example, they aren't) the conclusion would be that
indeed Linux has a richer playerbase to tap.

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Valeriy <jazzvoid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well
> http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/macintosh/
> http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/linux/
> 2011/7/2 Sir Brizz <sir.brizz at gmail.com>
>>
>> Are there 10 times more Mac gamers, though? I doubt it.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:53 AM, robin van ee <robin.vanee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Referring to Windows as "PC" pisses me off.
>>> Anyway, Linux games are hard to market, I have heard it said that it's
>>> simply not worth it. A Mac game, you can simply pop into the Appstore
>>> and Steam, and while Linux does have some of that, it's not as
>>> widespread.
>>> Besides that, there's about 10 times more Mac users than Linux users.
>>> It's more worth it than Linux.
>>>
>>> 2011/6/24 Zato-2 <zato.two at gmail.com>:
>>> >> Not seeing Linux there but seeing OSX there just pisses me off. Apple
>>> >> may be
>>> >> at the so-called "forefront" of gaming with their mobile devices, but
>>> >> on the
>>> >> desktop they are still "worthless" to support (arguably even more so
>>> >> than
>>> >> Linux).
>>> >
>>> > Steam supports PC and Mac but not linux, as do many games.
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