[ut3] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

[Clayton]

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On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Keith Z-G <keithzg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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