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If you earn $10k out of a ~15% to 10% marketshare, you've only earned about $100k total. You're not going to get your money back.

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More like 3% when you combine linux and mac. That can make it hard to justify the cost.

Still bs for an existing game with platform support from unreal though.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

However, the number of available titles on Linux/Mac is small, so you become a big fish in small pond and take all the users money. Piracy on OSX is smaller, and they are typically wealthier and starving for content.

They have PS4s.

Yeah. My Mac's for sitting at the desk or taking to the cafe and getting shit done. The PS4's for sitting on the sofa playing games.

No, not really. There's a wealth of titles available on Linux thanks to Humble Bundle and Valve funding ports. Never has made any money.

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