We will start the day with a bit of sad news, as the latest version of the popular Football Manager series Football Manager 2019 is not coming to Linux.
Announced today, Football Manager 2019 is only listing Windows and Mac on Steam. A user on Twitter reached out about the missing Linux version, to which the director of Football Manager simply replied that it was correct.
We followed up to ask why that is and the reply was this:
cost/benefit analysis. It unfortunately wasn't selling enough on Linux to cover the QA costs, let alone the dev cost. :(
Sports Interactive first put the game on Linux back in November 2013, which was considered a really good thing for Linux gamers considering how popular the title is. Looking at the 2018 edition, right now it has over thirty thousand people playing it (the peak today being nearly double that), so to have a game as popular as that no longer support Linux is a bit of a loss.
If it's not selling enough as they say to cover the costs, then you can't really argue against that. It sadly doesn't make sense for all games, even if they're popular on one platform they won't always be on another.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: LeopardYes, Linux has a small market share and developers aren't going to get rich doing it, however I'm arguing against it being inevitable for all games on Linux, which is complete bullshit.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardWell. That is ineviateble for all games on Linux.No, it's really not.
Well , unless company/publisher is just doing Linux version without seeking financial gainings.
Since Steam came to Linux in 2013 there's very few games that have actually stopped supporting Linux.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardYes, Linux has a small market share and developers aren't going to get rich doing it, however I'm arguing against it being inevitable for all games on Linux, which is complete bullshit.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardWell. That is ineviateble for all games on Linux.No, it's really not.
Well , unless company/publisher is just doing Linux version without seeking financial gainings.
Since Steam came to Linux in 2013 there's very few games that have actually stopped supporting Linux.
Others were promised but did not come at all. Still waiting for SF5 :( Most likely will end up buying Tekken7 and using wine and dxvk to play it.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardYes, Linux has a small market share and developers aren't going to get rich doing it, however I'm arguing against it being inevitable for all games on Linux, which is complete bullshit.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardWell. That is ineviateble for all games on Linux.No, it's really not.
Well , unless company/publisher is just doing Linux version without seeking financial gainings.
Since Steam came to Linux in 2013 there's very few games that have actually stopped supporting Linux.
Yes , few actually stopped supporting Linux while most of them didn't even come to Linux at all.
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Honest.. player DB updates should be regular updates and not new major version release.
I have 2017. Didn't see the need to buy 2018.
I have 2017. Didn't see the need to buy 2018.
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Quoting: LeopardAre you surprised, when people have attitudes like this ;)Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardYes, Linux has a small market share and developers aren't going to get rich doing it, however I'm arguing against it being inevitable for all games on Linux, which is complete bullshit.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardWell. That is ineviateble for all games on Linux.No, it's really not.
Well , unless company/publisher is just doing Linux version without seeking financial gainings.
Since Steam came to Linux in 2013 there's very few games that have actually stopped supporting Linux.
Yes , few actually stopped supporting Linux while most of them didn't even come to Linux at all.
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Apologies for very negative opinion...
Why on earth I should paid a franchise game for full price every year just for some updates? I played FM12/13 before in cyber cafe and played FM17 which bought legally last year to show my "Linux gamer support". Nothing much difference between both games IMO.
Sega/SI should abandoned yearly game launching and adopt base game + battle/season pass - style for FM. Like USD30 for base game and USD 15-20 for latest new season team squads. Paying full price for PC games franchise yearly plus with PC gaming gone all digital aren't feasible and/or justify anymore.
Yes, It's sad to see a franchise usually comes on Linux no longer available. But in this case, I'm not missed it much. Sega have superb track record on Linux gaming. So, I'm not afraid on "Sega will abandoning Linux" rhetoric.
Note: Not a football fan and terrible FM player but almost all my friends are football fans.. So yeah, go with the flow.
Why on earth I should paid a franchise game for full price every year just for some updates? I played FM12/13 before in cyber cafe and played FM17 which bought legally last year to show my "Linux gamer support". Nothing much difference between both games IMO.
Sega/SI should abandoned yearly game launching and adopt base game + battle/season pass - style for FM. Like USD30 for base game and USD 15-20 for latest new season team squads. Paying full price for PC games franchise yearly plus with PC gaming gone all digital aren't feasible and/or justify anymore.
Yes, It's sad to see a franchise usually comes on Linux no longer available. But in this case, I'm not missed it much. Sega have superb track record on Linux gaming. So, I'm not afraid on "Sega will abandoning Linux" rhetoric.
Note: Not a football fan and terrible FM player but almost all my friends are football fans.. So yeah, go with the flow.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardAre you surprised, when people have attitudes like this ;)Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardYes, Linux has a small market share and developers aren't going to get rich doing it, however I'm arguing against it being inevitable for all games on Linux, which is complete bullshit.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: LeopardWell. That is ineviateble for all games on Linux.No, it's really not.
Well , unless company/publisher is just doing Linux version without seeking financial gainings.
Since Steam came to Linux in 2013 there's very few games that have actually stopped supporting Linux.
Yes , few actually stopped supporting Linux while most of them didn't even come to Linux at all.
What is wrong with my saying anyway?
People on Linux don't buy games
Edit due to misunderstandings:
People on Linux of course buying games. But it seems that is not enough to justify expenses for Linux builds.
Last edited by Leopard on 6 August 2018 at 3:29 pm UTC
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Quoting: LeopardWhat is wrong with my saying anyway?Oh I do love the smell of FUD on a Monday afternoon.
People on Linux don't buy games
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Quoting: LeopardPeople on Linux don't buy games
Why do you bother stating such obviously wrong claims? Why are you even here, on a site with pretty much only Linux gamers buying games (with the possibly single exception being you).
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Quoting: LeopardPeople on Linux don't buy games
Makes me wonder where those 417 Linux titles in my Steam library come from. Well, quite a few come from Humble Bundles, but apart from that I've bought 17 games so far in 2018. In they weren't even in the below-one-Euro pricing range: Helium Rain, Factorio, Skyforce Reloaded, RUINER, ROTR, Steamworld Dig 2,...
I'd rather say people on Windows don't buy games. They copy 'em.
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