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