One of the Minecraft developers shared a graph today of different launches of Minecraft across PC platforms, and the results are interesting.
We asked what these launches covered:
Looks like Linux still has some ways to go for Minecraft fans. It's good to see it as high as it is though, as I honestly expected it to be lower than it is.
What are your thoughts?
We asked what these launches covered:
@gamingonlinux A sample of Minecraft (client) launches from yesterday
— Nathan Adams (@Dinnerbone) December 4, 2014
Looks like Linux still has some ways to go for Minecraft fans. It's good to see it as high as it is though, as I honestly expected it to be lower than it is.
What are your thoughts?
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The Linux number is still pretty huge. I mean nearly 118,000 is not something a developer should scoff at and that's just the people who like Minecraft... I know a lot of Linux users who don't like Minecraft... Especially so after Microsoft bought Mojang.
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Also, Minecraft is not on Steam. It would sell much more Linux copies if it was on Steam, I'm sure.
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Quoting: zimplex1The Linux number is still pretty huge. I mean nearly 118,000 is not something a developer should scoff.
Exactly, and this is only a test from 1 day of logins.
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Quoting: FergleFerglesonI can't imagine that MS's acquisition of Minecraft has exactly endeared it to the linux-faithful. But for me, the real surprise:i never even thought the game would still run on that OS...
Windows 95 - 1076
There shouldn't be that many Win95 boxes left. Period. Let alone running MC. :)
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havent played since the sellout lol
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I presume the Linux version is mostly Raspberry Pi users.
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Why would you have expected it lower then this? It's less 1%.
IMHO it was a bad timing to count as many moved off to minetest/voxelands, also 7D2D was released for Linux just a short time before. I would have expected higher numbers.
Nice try! But no thank you, this version is to crippeled for me. I prefer FTB xD
IMHO it was a bad timing to count as many moved off to minetest/voxelands, also 7D2D was released for Linux just a short time before. I would have expected higher numbers.
Quoting: neffoI presume the Linux version is mostly Raspberry Pi users.
Nice try! But no thank you, this version is to crippeled for me. I prefer FTB xD
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Since it belongs to M$ now, I don't really wanna play it anymore and I think a lot of Linux gamers feel that way :/
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I will continue to support Minecraft until the day comes when I can't play on Linux anymore or with any less features.
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Since M$ bought it I think most linux usres started to play minetest or something else. M$ already proved several times that they always break everything cross platform ( for exmaple skype ), so its just a matter of time until Minecraft will not work on linux anymore.
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