yeah I made a boo boo. 100% take away at $10 = $1,620,000... now I understand. https://store.steampowered.com/stats/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey peak at 16 million users for today alone. 0.90% use Linux, potentially 0.5% to 2.88% WINE users on the windows side... yeah still not exactly worth it but would be a…
the percentage is of those willing to fork over a certain amount of money for a game. so $10 in game purchases would put another million into the dev's pocket at the bare minimum of a 10% take away which is very possible. you also have to account for those that use WINE since steam does not count any PC that does not use…
40% $10 purchase = $6,480,00030% $10 purchase = $4,860,00010% $10 purchase = $1,620,000 by this math is is very possible to earn at minimum a million bucks just by making Linux support a thing on steam through a $500,000 investment into a team of coders to get it done.
you were right about one thing, my math was indeed off. Waaay off. looking at steam alone there exist roughly 18 million steam users, and by steams statistics 0.9% use Linux. that equates to 1,620,000 Linux users for January 2020. add the 80% take away, 1,296,000 users of Linux signing up to STO or any game for that…