<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift">Purses made with dead babies, perhaps?</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 1:26 PM, Bensch Blaser <<a href="mailto:g-news@freesurf.ch">g-news@freesurf.ch
</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;">and you'd like to back that up with...?<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<br>On 17.12.2007, at 18:50, Cube sis wrote:<br><br>> we are more then 1% of pc gamers.....<br>><br>> On Dec 17, 2007 10:24 AM, Bensch Blaser <<a href="mailto:g-news@freesurf.ch">g-news@freesurf.ch</a>> wrote:
<br>> Linux gamers the biggest group of what?<br>> Online servers? Maybe, even possibly so, which would give a big<br>> incentive to release a linux dedicated server client, if you want your<br>> game to succeed. Gamers however is likely a minute percentage of the
<br>> entire pie.<br>> There are maybe 98% windows, 1% Mac and 1% Linux out there, depending<br>> on the game and genre give and take 2%.<br>> From a client perspective, releasing Mac and Linux clients is pure
<br>> courtesy and then some bragging rights about cross-platform<br>> capability. Economically, we're completely expendable.<br>> If you think otherwise, you're simply nuts.<br>><br>> Bensch<br>>
<br>> On 17.12.2007, at 14:04, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:<br>><br>> ><br>> > Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 10:21 +0100 schrieb<br>> <a href="mailto:info@snakeservers.net">info@snakeservers.net</a>:<br>> >>
<br>> >> This game is gonna be dead on this way<br>> > hey, I'm a Linux gamer myself, but:<br>> >> the linux gamers are the bigest group<br>> > for sure they aren't!<br>> ><br>> > eg.: Valve does regularly hardware surveys using steam. this allowed
<br>> > to<br>> > identify wine users on steam (wine would show up wine-alsa.drv as<br>> > sound-driver). Some info was posted on the valve website. 0.13%<br>> using<br>> > wine. That leaves 99,87% using windows ...
<br>> ><br>> > granted, as I _AM_ a linux gamer, I don't use steam, even though it<br>> > does<br>> > run in wine, but given that 7 out of 8 linux gamers think like me,<br>> > this<br>> > would give roughly 1% of market share. This isn't enough to decide
<br>> > about<br>> > success or failure of a game<br>> > --<br>> > Thomas Ilnseher <<a href="mailto:ilnseher@eit.uni-kl.de">ilnseher@eit.uni-kl.de</a>><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ---
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