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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by ThrowawayR2 on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:37AM (#18846665)
> Coming out with a truly cross platform game that has Linux as a first class citizen would buy tremendous free publicity.

This particular game (Planetary Annihilation) was designed with Linux support in mind from the very beginning; as the person who wrote the tweets notes, he and numerous others within the company were huge proponents of supporting Linux. As events proved, it didn't work out for them.

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Re:Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of ... by michaelmrose on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:32PM (#18848334)
They later admitted they overstated this issue and that their problems were self caused.
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