we are more then 1% of pc gamers.....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2007 10:24 AM, 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;">
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><font color="#888888"><br>Bensch<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On 17.12.2007, at 14:04, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
<br><br>><br>> Am Montag, den 17.12.2007, 10:21 +0100 schrieb <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% 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
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