“30 May 2009
Due to sales levels being quite different to expectations, we have had to end our sale early, and all LGP prices are now back to pre-sale prices”
http://www.tuxgames.com/

What does this mean? Where the sales a huge success?

Frankly, I don’t know who is to blame : linux, xorg, nvidia, the original games developers, Runesoft… But all games I purchased had issues. Even the latest title, Jack Keane, has problems with lightning, no special effect, and is a little slow. (that quite ruins the experience IMO)

Similar experience with Ankh 1 & 2. Northland doesn’t work properly either. (no music, very slow unless a second 16 bits X server is launched).

However, I still think developing for the Linux platform may be difficult, especially because of gfx drivers that are not all of optimal quality.

Anyway. No problem so far with LGP port. (apart from the little quirk, the bad file rights on the Jets’n'Guns CD :)

Anyway, thanks for the special offer. But I really think prices should be a little more affordable, the rest of the time :)

And seriously, I like the LGP logo animation and sound.
Why does everything has to be super fancy these days?
LGP’s logo and the background sound are easily recogniseable, they are just the perfect mix of plainness and fancyness.
I’d prefer if they were not changed at all.
I’m already used to that LGP logo and the sound, the sound is always calming. :P

Apart from that the logo seems not really very creative to me. And the logo animation / sound when starting a game are just horrible and creepy… Just have a look at other logos of Linux game companies like Loki Software, Hyperion Entertainment or even RuneSoft – all of them are way better, and Hyperion even has a great logo animation :-)

So, enough ranting for today, I’ll continue somewhen else ;-)

And to prevent my posting yet another reply here, I’ll just quickly jump on the suggest-a-game-to-port bandwagon, and proffer: Silent Storm (+ Sentinels).

Anyways I agree that some people who used the “sales day” to buy games for 9 GBP would have bought them later on at their original higher price, but then again – wouldn’t they have bought it by now before the “sales day” ?
As you’ve said most of the games bought this day where old titles – so if they weren’t bought by now at their old prices and only bought when the prices dropped – doesn’t it tell you that they wouldn’t have sold if the prices weren’t dropped ?

I do however agree that new titles as Sacred Gold might have sold more in the future and you “lost” profit in the sales day for those titles.
But older games that cost just as much as the day they where released wouldn’t sell much – I mean it’s been a few years ;)

There are some very old titles I want to buy (now it’s mostly from Tuxgames as you don’t sell them for some reason) – but the prices are still just as high as in the release day , wouldn’t it be logical to drop them after several months or even a year ? the Windows titles drop dramatically after 1-2 years.

And other issue on this notice …
Maybe you should have a poll of titles you would want to port (not talking about new windows games that cost much to license) and users can submit what they want to see ported , then you can “save” yourself from titles that sell much less then others.

BTW when Sam2 is comming (dunno if you will sell it but tuxgames have it on their list and I can’t wait for it to be completly and officially ported), 20th of May as planned ? (I’ve tried the beta iccus port and for me it didn’t work)

Thanks again for your replies.

As for the systems for interest, that wouldnt work. We don’t just base our priorities on what people want. We have to take into account business needs, staff availability and skillset, lots of factors. As for interest in potential ports, no, because people will just go ‘yay yay huge game that is so expensive to license it would put us out of business’. Kindof self defeating {:-).

LGP doesnt even have a system for preordering, but some of our resellers do offer preorder discounts, we leave that to them. We have to be careful on our sales direct to the public, as we do not want to compete to the point our resellers cannot, as destroying the reseller chain would be a huge mistake.