Simon Roth, developer of space colony sim Maia sent a tweet out recently showing some sales data, Linux is doing reasonably well.
Here's what he said:
So far this year 4.9% percent of people buying @maia have been Linux users, OSX coming in at 4.4%. Biggest regions are USA (32%), UK (14%) and Germany (11%).
When I asked for more information, he said this is the reverse of the last quarter, when Mac was higher than Linux. Good to see Linux pull ahead slightly there, although it's worth nothing the actual amount of copies sold likely isn't too high, he said last quarter it was only about 700 units.
Even so, Mac and Linux together making up nearly 10% of their overall sales is certainly nothing to sneeze at, especially if you're not making a huge amount of sales, to me that says they're quite important.
Maia is currently available on itch.io and Steam and it's on sale too. It was recently updated as well and it's looking a lot better.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
So far this year 4.9% percent of people buying @maia have been Linux users
Not bad, and the game looks interesting. I'll probably buy itch.io version.
Last edited by Shmerl on 18 February 2018 at 10:10 pm UTC
TheRiddick Feb 18, 2018
hardpenguin Feb 19, 2018
Running the game at 1920x1080 ( because running it at my desktops full 4k resolution is too damn slow ) when ever your cursor gest to the bottom or right side you would scroll on to other parts of your desktop. Basically seeing a 1920x1080 cutout of the full desktop with the game still running but only partially in view :(
Maybe they fixed it, but honestly not locking the mouse to the active window is a mistake. With so many good games on linux these days you'd need a very compelling reason to return to a game that suffers from lack of testing of the most basic functionality.
Don't get me wrong, game bugs happen even/especially in AAA titles - but basic input/output needs to be sorted before you reach your consumers.
Too many disappointments in the past.
Of the 3 games I backed that year, only 1 (Wasteland 2) has been actually released.
Glad to see Maia is still developed though! ...the third one is M.I.A.
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