They can see how many linux players they have from the masterserver connections<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 8, 2007 9:02 AM, Matthew Thompson <<a href="mailto:chameleonator@gmail.com">chameleonator@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">> If I go down to EB and pick up a copy of UT3<br>today, that will show up as yet another sale of the Windows copy of the
<br>game.<br><br></div>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)
<br><br>I've considered buying from <a href="http://tuxgames.com" target="_blank">tuxgames.com</a> 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
<a href="http://gogamer.com" target="_blank">gogamer.com</a> :(<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 7, 2007 1:42 PM, Alex Malinovich <<a href="mailto:demonbane@the-love-shack.net" target="_blank">
demonbane@the-love-shack.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Matthew Thompson wrote:<br>> I couldn't care less if I had a boxed version or not. I always end up<br>> installing 100s upon 100s of mb patches after installation anyway, so<br>> whats wrong with using a client patch on a Win32 cd? It's not worth
<br>> reprinting everything for a special edition when all they did was change<br>> the miniscule portion of windows-specific code to some other OS.<br><br></div>If it was purely about logic, you'd be absolutely right. But
<br>unfortunately, this is about marketing. And in our case, WE are the ones<br>trying to do the marketing, not the ones being marketed to. Companies<br>want to see hard numbers. If I go down to EB and pick up a copy of UT3
<br>today, that will show up as yet another sale of the Windows copy of the<br>game.<br><br>On the other hand, if they have a specific Linux version, or if I buy<br>from a Linux-only retailer like <a href="http://tuxgames.com" target="_blank">
tuxgames.com</a>, that sale shows up as a<br>Linux sale to the publisher's sales-drones. If we get enough of those<br>over a long enough period, we can (hopefully) influence enough companies<br>to follow in Epic's footsteps and support Linux with their new games.
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