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.
VoxelForge Aug 6, 2018
To each their own, but if we're not contributing to our own numbers we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
Quoting: LeopardWell. That is ineviateble for all games on Linux.No, it's really not.
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.
Some region lock prohibited a sale of the game in Germany (probably some kind of license deal).
So I guess that's not a loss :D
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