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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by reaperducer on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:14PM (#22172281)
At one time, Windows was only 3% of game players. Does that mean companies shouldn't have developed for Windows way back when?

Market growth potential aside, a small portion of users doesn't necessarily equate to abandonment="sensible economical decision." If that small portion is more profitable than the majority, then it's worth serving. That's pretty much how Apple got to be where it is today.

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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by tapoxi on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:44PM (#22172661)
> Does that mean companies shouldn't have developed for Windows way back when?

They didn't, they developed for DOS well into the Windows 95 and 98 era, at which point Windows had captured the PC market.

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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by pier25 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:01PM (#22172859)
> If that small portion is more profitable than the majority, then it's worth serving.

Indeed, but that's not the case with macOS and Linux players.

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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by EpicEng on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:35PM (#22173770)
>If that small portion is more profitable than the majority, then it's worth serving.

But... it's not. Not even close. It's tiny and Linux costs far more to support due to variations in configuration and flaky APIs.

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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:15PM (#22173594)
> "Does that mean companies shouldn't have developed for Windows way back when?"

The difference being that Microsoft went all out in building subsystems (WinG and later the various DirectX technologies) for gaming and courting game developers to target it while Windows 9x was still new and popular.

Nothing similar has occurred for any of the Linux distributions nor is that likely to occur.

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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by cosmiccatnap on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:03PM (#22176070)
Vulken
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