Games on Linux

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä]

On 24.10.2012 22:04, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 11:51 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Small gamer market share, historically buggy and underperforming 3D
>> graphics drivers, no common way to sell/support.
>
> ...and a culture based on free software.  How many Linux gamers, do 
> you think, would be willing to pay for games when so much of their 
> software is FOSS?  That's not to say that nobody would pay (Please 
> note that not only did a fair number of Linux people buy the Humble 
> Bundle, on the average, our payment was higher than anybody else's.) 
> but as long as game developers think we won't, they're not going to 
> spend (or waste, as they see it) any time on us.

I also seems that many funded Kickstater projects have promised Linux 
support so there will be quality games coming from there.

-vpk