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Post by JVIDEL » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

bsimpson wrote: post #132

makmanalp wrote: post #108

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The interesting thing is that convincing AAA publishers to port merely requires them to think it'd be profitable. 20 years ago, if someone asked to raise a quarter of a billion into a video game, they'd be laughed out of the building. Now it happens often. Over the years, increasingly big-budget games got funded and created. So, all they need to do is to replicate a similar process. First you move all the indie games…

I believe Humble Bundle has a partnership with a consultancy that will take care of porting a game to other platforms to enable their Mac/Linux/Windows value proposition. Valve could probably do something similar (though I imagine it's a lot more work to port a AAA game than an indie platformer).

Post by freshfunk » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 6:09 PM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #26

This is effectively the software-only equivalent of a console launch. Is anyone else skeptical that they can motivate publishers to spend time/money porting their games to the Linux platform? Valve certainly has a better chance than most at pulling this off (and likely enough user/market data to make this seem like a valid investment) I am still super skeptical that these publishers are going to spend the time portin…

Post by leccine » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

Post by jdgiese » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

throwaway2048 wrote: post #160

ihsw wrote: post #114

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Don't be ridiculous -- Canonical has taken control of Ubuntu development and now they have a reputation for being authoritarian and secretive. There are fewer ways to alienate the open-source community than that and yet Ubuntu's popularity soars. The more critical people are of Canonical, the more fervent Ubuntu supporters become. "How will they make money" will be parroted just as loudly, if not more-so.

Ubuntus popularity is anything but soaring these days, mint has more or less taken over its former crown.

Post by gcb0 » Tue, Sep 24, 2013, 8:10 PM UTC

Mikeb85 wrote: post #460

gcb0 wrote: post #298

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Not so simple nowadays. Games are not fire and forget anymore. Now it's all about downloadable content and In-Game-Currency (which is basically a way to allow gambling legally) Just being profitable initially doesn't mean jack. I think everyone learned that from the emails from Jobs and the Printing industry (and what i'd give to read the ones with the music industry...)

Not true. Most big AAA games and the higher quality Indie Games you just buy once, and you get the whole version. Examples are Minecraft, Braid, Fez, for indies, and pretty much all AAA titles are buy-once... Even many of the higher quality Android titles are a one-time purchase.