Quoting: KetilI am Norwegian, but I run most of my software in English, including steam. I assume linux users are more likely to pick English over their native language than users of other platforms.

This, and also Europe in general. The market share for "Games in English language only" is actually quite high; people do know enough English that most people are able to play a game in English if it's not available in the native language.

Same goes for movies. Here in Switzerland, typically the evening shows in movie theaters are in English, with subtitles. If you want it dubbed, you have to go to watch the movie in the afternoon with the children ;).

So the question to what this really boils down to, is, how big is the market for non-localized software. And it's really low in cultural-imperialist China (I always wanted say this one ;)).

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The ships look like, well, not ships. Tumblehome is missing, instead they have some weird buildings at the back and front. For that alone I'd get irritated enough not to play it.

(And yes, the uniform I'm wearing on my avatar-picture is the 1795 pattern royal navy captains undress uniform).

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I have several versions of X-Plane, I think 8, 9, 10, but as I'm not really into flight simulators, I didn't bother to buy the newest one.

As for playing with wine, I used to play a lot (and I've even co-author of this https://github.com/Seegras/wine/tree/work/dlls/xlive), but the last few years so many titles have been released on Linux that I mostly don't bother. Unless I really want to play a specific game.

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Quoting: g000hHere's some Black and White for you..

You play legitimately bought games on pirated Windows - you're a pirate.
You play pirated games on pirated Windows - you're a pirate.

You're wrong of course, because you failed to notice that piracy is defined as robbery on the high seas, whereas this is about copyright infringement.

So not matter how hard you violate Microsofts copyrights on Windows, you're not a pirate. You're just a copyright infringer.

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Quoting: hardpenguinBut most of Linux users use Steam in English.

My whole system runs in English, even though it's not my native tongue. It even runs British English, because otherwise the spellchecking is totally WRONG ;).

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Eh, what? I just bought it and played it, on Linux.

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Wine works great. Some two years ago it was an 80% solution, meaning that 80% of all games compiled for windows would work out of the box.

I have two prefixes, a 64bit and a 32bit windows one, both running steam and usually games work with one or the other; the problems being the same ones as on windows itself.

However, of my 4000 games on Steam, 3000 run on Linux, so I don't really tend to run wine any more. It's slow upon startup, so unless I want to play some very specific game, I just play on native Linux.

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It does run fine on my i7 with a GTX 960.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: SeegrasI actually know casual gamers on Linux that refuse to use steam. They only buy software from humblebundle, gog, itch and so on.

If you look at that way , there are many (posssibly much more than Linux) Windows users who are pirating games or buying drm-free games. That is not a valid reasoning.

Also , are you sure that your friends are 'buying' drm-free games ; right?

Of course, you're right in respect of the percentages.

But also: Ever seen illegal copies of Linux games floating around? Yes there are, but they're far and few between, so yes, they are BUYING them.

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Quoting: LeopardNetmarket Share statics is doesn't mean anything. They're all looking to Steam Survey and that is right thing to do. Not every user play games on Mac and Linux also even Windows.

I actually know casual gamers on Linux that refuse to use steam. They only buy software from humblebundle, gog, itch and so on.

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