I think that if sell a download versions of your games at reasonable prices (~50% lower then the box versions) you will gain more sells and more profit.
You can still offer a box version for those who want it – nothing prevents it.

About gaming ports – Linux users DO care when the game was released on the Windows platform.
Game’s first release date often states his technology.
New games like Fallout3 have state of the art graphics , something that older games can’t compete with.
I am not saying that if the game looks “prettier” he is better, far from it – but we can all agree that Quake2 suppressed Quake1 and Sam2 suppressed Sam1 – newer engines , bigger games.

Got X2 for Windows and bought it again for Linux.

I’d also love to see X3, Terran conflict comming along. Should also not be as much work as X3 took, since Terran conflict uses the same engine and so on.
The new title they are porting right now (the secret one) aint Terran Conflict for sure, since they said that the new title had Multiplayer and would work with penguin play.
I’m really curious what they are porting.

Sure it would be nice to buy the games cheaper or to buy two games for the price that one of the currently costs, but if that hurts LGP then i don’t want to see it comming.

I’d rather keep paying 50 bucks and keep those Linux Ports comming for decades than to buy 5 cheap games and see LGP go bankrupt.
Who knows, maybe we’ll get some high end titles like Crysis in the future.
Although getting Crysis is very unlikely due to EA Games as publisher, but that’s why I wrote “like”.

I also like what you did with the cockpit addon on the X3 disk.
And i also like you policy of just doing real ports and not just partial once.
It really annoyed me in Northland, that there was no Multiplayer part in the Linux Version.

I can’t really think of a game I’d like to see ported, well i can think of some but they are unlikely to happen.
The ones you choose to port are generally pretty good.
For example it would be nice to have “The Sims” for Linux since there is no game of that kind yet.
Of course it would also be great to have modern, popular Multiplayer Titles like “Battlefield 2142″, but again, unlikely to happen due to the publisher.
Would be easy to maintain though, since EA stops the support for their games after the first 5 patches, so there would be no patches to fiddle around with.

Seing some more strategy games would also be nice i guess.
Stuff like Empire Earth.
Or maybe even Paraworld.
Hm, you should really check out Paraworld, i doubt that the developers of Paraworld would be againt a port since they’ve gone bankrupt.
On the other hand it’s not sure how many people would buy a strategy game that ain’t hyped, these days.

Oh, thinking about stuff I’d like to see, i came to the comclusion that Linux really lacks a 3d Jump’n'Run like Prince of Persia or Splinter Cell (i know it’s a “stealth game” but you jump a lot…)
I somehow had to think of Splinter Cell when i played Cold War some time last week.
So what I’d basically like to see, is some Multiplayer Title where i can also play Windows users.

You also might think about porting good old all time classics like Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital or Startopia.

I dont really want to tell you what games to port, but rather to show what kind of games linux lacks right now.

Wine is definitely not an emulator. It uses custom dll’s or sometimes the same dll’s that windows uses. It just doesn’t have the same architecture as windows and sometimes apps are looking for custom proprietary things that the windows OS uses. Depends on how much the windows app developer keeps his app self contained or depends on the existing code and structure of windows to run his app.

As I use Linux as my main system I only have to pay the hardware costs for my system. The OS is free. All software I need for production work is also completely free (Xara LX, Blender, GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Ardour, Rosegarden etc.), so that leaves more financial room for those games that have to be ported to Linux. Even if the price I have to pay for a game is double or triple the price of the Windows version I still lost far less money then when I had to buy Windows and all the software I need (Yes I know a lot of these software also runs on windows, but you get the idea).

The only problem I have is that the games from LGP are difficult to get here in the Netherlands. As I do not have a credit card (and do not want to have one) ordering something outside my country is fairly cumbersome. Still – I want to go trough these difficulties and accept the (relatively) higher price to get the game that works on my platform of choice. If that’s the price I have to pay to get software ported to my platform I am happy to pay.

Now – I only can hope X3-Terran Conflict also will be ported. Well – you can always dream – can’t you? ;-)