Garry Newman of Facepunch shared on twitter that Rust has now hit over 4 million sales, and Linux is sitting at over 30 thousand.
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That's obviously far short of what it has sold on Windows, still not close to Mac levels, but that's still quite a bit of money from Linux sales.
While I'm not a fan of Rust myself, it just doesn't click with me, I can't deny it has appeal to people who like those sorts of games. Even though Garry doesn't feel Linux has been worth it in his previous statements, I am still very glad it's on Linux. It's also nice of Garry to be so open about the sales.
I haven't played Rust for a long time, how's the Linux version looking now folks? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism Jul 21, 2016
@cxpher - yup, they could have made $80-100 just off of me alone (I do a lot of gifting.) Had he approached it ahead of time like hey guys I'm going to release numbers later so give us all the support you can :)
That would have been a hit.
But now he's got us like a dog rubbing our nose in the numbers after many of us boycotted him due to his arrogance.
And like a abusive boyfriend just expects people to "go with it", this defective behavior might not bite him in the ass today or next week or in a month, but someday arrogance and aggression lead to a fall.
But seriously, he should apologize for distancing the Linux community. I'm 100% dead serious. Why should his mistakes lead to him being hated when he can just say sorry and then we can forgive his ignorance and arrogance.
Last edited by ElectricPrism on 21 July 2016 at 2:43 am UTC
That would have been a hit.
But now he's got us like a dog rubbing our nose in the numbers after many of us boycotted him due to his arrogance.
And like a abusive boyfriend just expects people to "go with it", this defective behavior might not bite him in the ass today or next week or in a month, but someday arrogance and aggression lead to a fall.
But seriously, he should apologize for distancing the Linux community. I'm 100% dead serious. Why should his mistakes lead to him being hated when he can just say sorry and then we can forgive his ignorance and arrogance.
Last edited by ElectricPrism on 21 July 2016 at 2:43 am UTC
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psycho_driver Jul 21, 2016
Quoting: ElectricPrismI know like 10 people who use Linux and guess what? 0 of them play Rust - they all play Ark.
The reviews have been mediocre and kept me of any of my Linux Gaming Clan from buying, and also - the anti-linux remarks from the creator have turned me off to ever buying anything from him.
I am coming up on 1,000 games and Rust ain't one of them.
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lucifertdark Jul 21, 2016
If he was writing the entire thing from scratch, including the engine I'd understand him being less than appreciative about the 34,000+ Linux buyers, but he didn't, his support for Linux was the press of a button & for that & £20 we get abuse & we're supposed to just smile & take it, or perhaps forgive him & be all sweetness & light, well I for one do not forgive or forget.
I will NEVER buy anything from him or his company even if he does apologise, which I seriously doubt is ever going to happen & if it did would NOT be sincere on his part.
The only reason I have that cluster called Garry's Mod in my games list at all is because it was FREE!
I will NEVER buy anything from him or his company even if he does apologise, which I seriously doubt is ever going to happen & if it did would NOT be sincere on his part.
The only reason I have that cluster called Garry's Mod in my games list at all is because it was FREE!
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Last time I ran it, it ran poorly. Doubt it's any better but a lot of people claim to have success. Might just be my card... GTX 690.
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I counted as a Linux sale a looong time ago, but I have to play it on Windows :(
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I'm so glad I didn't bought this game on the summer sale. I wasn't aware that it's developed by that asshole Garry and I was looking for a survival game. Luckily I bought 7 Days To Die instead
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I didn't knew all of that...
I didn't buy the game and, if the port doesn't work, I won't buy it.
It's not the first time I read about horrible ports here, a wiki page about them may be useful...
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I didn't buy the game and, if the port doesn't work, I won't buy it.
It's not the first time I read about horrible ports here, a wiki page about them may be useful...
Last edited by Purple Pudding on 21 July 2016 at 8:00 am UTC
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I think that he also needs to pay some taxes and probably steam wants a cut from these 19.99 too
Anyway I didn't know about the hate towards us but i don't care too much since i'm not interested in this game.
But it's really sad to hear that, in my opinion a developer makes a Linux port pointing on future sales and not pretending to fill the wallet after a month.. if the game doesn't sell well on Linux is because people stick with Windoz (or because your tweets sucks).
But this may change in the future (not sure for his tweets)
Anyway I didn't know about the hate towards us but i don't care too much since i'm not interested in this game.
But it's really sad to hear that, in my opinion a developer makes a Linux port pointing on future sales and not pretending to fill the wallet after a month.. if the game doesn't sell well on Linux is because people stick with Windoz (or because your tweets sucks).
But this may change in the future (not sure for his tweets)
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Bought this game back in Q1 2014 and have played over 700 hours since then, last time played rust yesterday.
Game runs as it should, it's Unity game and Unity has bad performance no matter what operating system it runs on.
One of my playgroup has similar hardware as I have but hes running on Windows with same graphics settings as I and we're getting pretty much same fps.
Worst problems I had when ran Rust with AMD card, 7850, which isn't best gaming card especially on Linux.
I kinda understand that they don't test Linux client that much as they test Windows client, there isn't rly that much testings since Unity itself should handle it, but ofc it's annoying af when they release buggy client where e.g. keys get stuck right after first key press etc.
What comes to this bullying simulator gameplay, it's one of a kind.
If you don't have any social or other problems to team up with strangers, you have mental problems and you slack in terms of moral, this game could be your favorite game.
Game runs as it should, it's Unity game and Unity has bad performance no matter what operating system it runs on.
One of my playgroup has similar hardware as I have but hes running on Windows with same graphics settings as I and we're getting pretty much same fps.
Worst problems I had when ran Rust with AMD card, 7850, which isn't best gaming card especially on Linux.
I kinda understand that they don't test Linux client that much as they test Windows client, there isn't rly that much testings since Unity itself should handle it, but ofc it's annoying af when they release buggy client where e.g. keys get stuck right after first key press etc.
What comes to this bullying simulator gameplay, it's one of a kind.
If you don't have any social or other problems to team up with strangers, you have mental problems and you slack in terms of moral, this game could be your favorite game.
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