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Linux Deployment

bobjones9190234324 · 2011-02-23T01:58:47

I just want to know, is deploying a commercial game to linux even profitable? Most people who have linux are probably not looking to use it for entertainment purposes and those that are probably just pick up a few Open Source games to play. Another concern I have is that people with linux usually don't like buying things, and I imagine piracy rates are very high. Finally how can it be distributed to the many variants of linux out there? Is the only option to setup purchases from your own site or are there stores for linux operating systems? I might be interested in doing something like at purchase of the game you can get a linux key for an additional cost or just making the keys cross platform so you could download the game for any OS and run it on all of them. in short, has anybody had any success selling their games on linux and how? Or any other thoughts on this

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Started by bobjones9190234324 January 15, 2011 05:16 AM

17 comments, last by xaviersythe 13 years, 4 months ago

xaviersythe

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February 23, 2011 01:58 AM

Linux support has "uh... xyz does not work on Blah Linux with foo-bar-0.2.7.1, it used to work with foo-bar-0.2.7.0-a3" on a regular basis

You assume that one must support EVERY Linux distribution. You can just support Fedora and Debian derivatives, and you'll probably be fine. Besides, that's what forum support is for! Who expects phone support from a video game studio? I certainly don't.

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