> But thats my whole point, exactly. > It is a chicken and egg scenario. However if Linux users, just said > "hey I'm not going to buy it because there is no native version", and > then stuck to their guns and didn't go buy, there would be enough of > us to make a difference.
I know it's your point. I just disagree with your conclusion. There aren't enough of us to make a difference. Macs have a much larger market share and very few Mac owners have a Windows box for gaming. Guess how many games are Mac-compatible? Maybe 10% of them, although I think I'm overestimating. Mac will be a viable gaming platform long before Linux, since they actually have stable, high performance 3d drivers that don't take a sysadmin to install. Plus, they're becoming a trendy thing with younger folks, who are more likely to buy games than Linux geeks (or nerds, I forget which one was decided to be the better one). > What would happen to open source game projects, if instead of us > buying games like CS we spent the equivalent amount of money as a > donation to a worthy linux native game? Honestly? Not much. There might be a couple thousand people in the world willing to do that, which is chump change compared to the hundreds of thousands of Windows gamers. I realize I'm being unsympathetic; maybe the whole unrealistic attitude of the comment about it being "silly to keep a winbloze box for gaming" riled me up, or maybe it's just that I'm realistic and what I've seen happening over the last 5 years has led me to believe that Linux gaming is getting worse, rather than better. Nvidia has slowed updates to their drivers, and from what I've heard ATI no longer officially offers Linux drivers (that might be wrong, I don't like ATI products, but I remember reading that). Fewer game developers are taking a chance on it by releasing Linux verions (for example, the original Unreal Tournament and Half-Life both had Linux versions, their follow-ups have not, AFAIK). If anything will take off, it'll be Macs. And maybe if that happens, Linux will be next. It's at least several years off, though. Greg /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
