Vote for GOG to add Linux versions of games they sell

**LillyDragon** · March 20th, 2014

They've been willing for quite some time, it was all a matter of having the right strategy for supporting Linux that was financially viable, and realistic to maintain for them, as a business.

So this means they are closer to seeing it through! Very exciting news, I'm looking forward to what comes of this.

**oldrocker99** · March 20th, 2014

I did read some feedback from developers about whether porting games to Linux was economically viable, and they all agreed that 1.5% of a market is still a lot of sales, and one dev stated specifically that it had worked out very well for them to have ported to the OS that is hungriest for games.

**oldrocker99** · March 21st, 2014

And (and I didn't know this until today) GOG.com is owned by RedProjekt, developers of the Witcher games. Interesting....

**Zeven** · March 22nd, 2014

Originally Posted by oldrocker99

I did read some feedback from developers about whether porting games to Linux was economically viable, and they all agreed that 1.5% of a market is still a lot of sales, and one dev stated specifically that it had worked out very well for them to have ported to the OS that is hungriest for games.

See, that's what I find interesting. Overall market share for Linux is around 1.5%, but when it comes to game sales, Linux's market share gets dangerously close to Mac OS, in some cases even surpassing it, despite the latter having far more overall market share. Considering that, plus how supporting Mac OS makes it easier to support Linux, I don't see why not more developers support LInux.