Rust has now sold over 30 thousand copies on Linux

@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 Jul 2016 at 2:43 am UTC

I 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.


Last edited by psycho_driver on 21 Jul 2016 at 3:15 am UTC

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!

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.

I counted as a Linux sale a looong time ago, but I have to play it on Windows :(

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


Last edited by Al3s on 21 Jul 2016 at 7:29 am UTC

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...


Last edited by Purple Pudding on 21 Jul 2016 at 8:00 am UTC

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)

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.

Is it possible for someone who have twitter to answer to this tard and tell him that his game is unplayable under linux and this is the reason for smaller percentage under linux. I have the game and I cant play it because of lag or glitches

I buying one copy from steam some times ago. I played in it about 2-3h and this game wroking very poorly for me :/


Last edited by DamonLinuxPL on 21 Jul 2016 at 9:10 am UTC

I bought it cheap probably back in 2014 sometime on a sale, it always ran so badly and had lots of bugs I could never get into it. It was early access so that didn't shock me. I fired it up the other day and they have certainly made a lot of improvements.

Still not sure if it is my kind of game haha, what I do wonder is how long it will stay in EA for. Does anyone know if he has any sort of rough release window planned?

Still not sure if it is my kind of game haha, what I do wonder is how long it will stay in EA for. Does anyone know if he has any sort of rough release window planned?

AFAIK, they don't have any release window planned and thats good in it's own way.
They are still focusing to new content like electricity and new content pops out every now and then.

I've put in 279 hours into Rust. Most of that was before procedural maps. After that update hit, Linux performance sank like a sack of shit. It was a lot better the last time I played it, but finding a nice server is difficult, and the standalone server for hosting your own is (was?) Windows-only for some bizarre reason. :/

Is it possible for someone who have twitter to answer to this tard and tell him that his game is unplayable under linux and this is the reason for smaller percentage under linux. I have the game and I cant play it because of lag or glitches

I tweeted him, but it seems to not at least yet gone through. Do i have to get following this guy to interact?

My kind of game, but I wouldn't touch his games with a barge pole after his comments. 7 Days to Die, ironically, is an excellent substitute. Ironic, because not so long ago, 7 Days to Die was catching a lot of heat from the Linux community (myself included) for not treating their Linux kickstarter promise with enough respect to actually launch the game. They finally launched a few alphas in.

They still prioritise Windows fixes, but they're much more open on their forums and Youtube channel about the work they do to support all platforms. I'm actually looking forward to the A15 release!

I doubt Facepunch could turn around their public image the way the Fun Pimps have.

I play Rust maybe 6 hours per week. It works well on SteamOS. I have a long list of complaints, but I should probably focus first on why and how I play. I like to play solo on an empty server. I like to start out naked and alone in nature and work my way up to building shelter, growing food, and exploring the map. They wipe the servers frequently, so by the time I get bored, they wipe it again.

Recent developments have been good.

They finally implemented a system that rewards cooperation. You craft a tool, give it to a player, and you earn experience when they use the tool. It's too soon to tell if this will reduce the slaughter fest, but I'm hoping we continue moving in the direction of cooperation over murder.

Crafting the rock. You start out naked with a rock and a torch. In the past, if you lost the rock, you were pretty screwed. Now, they allow you to craft a rock cheaply by gathering a few resources laying around the map.

Stash. You can now craft a small storage sack that you can bury. It's completely hidden. I suggest putting a good portion of your valued items in stashes since it's likely that your home will be raided. If you are murdered, you can at least retrieve the basics from your stash, so you don't have to start with the rock and torch again.

Fish traps. Finally, you can catch fish. Craft and place a fish trap in a river. Put bait in the trap. A mushroom will do. You can also drink from the rivers now. I recommend drinking from the source up river to avoid getting sick.

Plant seeds to grow corn, hemp, and pumpkins.

If you have a problem playing a different skin color or gender, be aware that there are no customization options... In Rust, you play with what they give you, and you can't change it. It does not appear that they care to change that... ever.

Is it possible for someone who have twitter to answer to this tard and tell him that his game is unplayable under linux and this is the reason for smaller percentage under linux. I have the game and I cant play it because of lag or glitches

It runs smoothly on my SteamOS PC: Intel Core i5 (Ivy Bridge), 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, Samsung Evo SSD. SteamOS is built on Debian, and I can exit to the Debian desktop. I have tried installing Rust on a stripped down version of Debian, but I failed to get it to run at all.

Interesting than this numbers be disclosed so openly, this represents 0.82% of linux players, a close number of steam hardware survey.

I think that you forgot to total the numbers ;). The Linux sales is 0.78% which is lower than the 0.80% from the HW survey, it seams that OSX however at 3.94% sold better than the 3.60% they have in the HW survey so for some reason the game is more popular on Mac than on either Windows (95.3% vs 95.50%) and Linux.

Actually it's quite impressive numbers for Linux sales considering how many reports there are about the game not working very well.

That Gary complains about the sales is probably because he sees the large number of close to $8 million for totals vs the $700k, i.e he probably got blind by the larger number and have as of yet not realised that any business that would pass a (mostly free) increase of sales by 0.8% would have their management replaced on the next share holders meeting.

So 19.99 * 34,291 = 685,477.09

We in Europe pay in €, I payed this game 25-28€ just after Linux "port" was released, could not played it on Linux for 2-3 years because it was full of bugs; game runs bad and look ugly even on Windows, tried it last time 1y ago, maybe something changed.