Ni no kuni linux
When will there be a native GNU/Linux build of this game?
If that’s not planned, what are the reasons?
Tell me more about your job as a specialist in the field of market analysation, is it exciting?
Being that the game already runs on BSD, it’s unlikely a hard job porting. Judging by the past. forever, we’re unlikely to see any games on Linux from an asian (big) studio anyway.
When will there be a native GNU/Linux build of this game? :bpenguin:
If that’s not planned, what are the reasons? :coconut:
No, most Japanese do not make games for Linux. Some Occidental cheated them saying that linux is not for games.
4 янв. 2018 в 7:31
4 янв. 2018 в 16:55
11 янв. 2018 в 15:01
Here in Japan Linux is almost completely unknown, even by the net savvy. I think they equate something “free” as “cheap and inferior”. I’ve gotten many of my friends to try Ubuntu because of the readily available Japanese translation, however applications in Japanese are much harder to find. I prefer Linux because of the ease of switching back and forth between languages, but more needs to be done about character input before I can truly convert the curious.
Sad to see how yet again the public perception of the popularity contest of operating systems wins out over support for Steam boxes & Linux.
Inherent in any of these types of analysis is the difficulty in establishing unbiased data. For example, someone helpfully points out the problem with using english search terms globally as a data source:
Agreed you don’t see much Linux from the average Japanese consumer. Nor much awareness. In fact, I remember a study(2003/4?) that showed Windows usage in Japan was higher than the U.S. However….
How many Japanese do you know are going to search for Linux in English? How many of them use google as opposed to Yahoo or Goo? Unless things have changed(certainly possible), Google is not the top-ranked search engine in Japan. Even in this report, Japan ranks 10th, a tie with Italy with a 55.0 index ranking. It’s not shown in the “list” to the left side though, as J follows I.
Also, try Turbo Linux or Vine Linux as opposed to any of the distributions listed above. Not suprisingly, both of those are Japan-centric distributions. Secondly, BSD has traditionally had more of a presence in Japan particularly at the ISP/Corp level. I believe they tie Russia in that category for the top spot.
Another example of potentially skewed data for OS market share:
Using web browser data (e.g. User-Agent headers, javascript analytics includes, etc. ). This makes the assumption that users do not have Ad & Analytics blocking browser plugins, and that they have not enabled privacy settings or User-Agent masking. Typical Linux users are tech savvy and privacy aware. Therefore, one would expect that this class of OS users would be more likely to install AdBlock or take privacy measures which would skew the browser-sourced data by nature.
To say that there is no market for games on Linux & Unix based systems is foolish. Most games ran on Windows only back in the 1990’s, and that has changed a lot with Steam. The market for gaming on Linux is still being created, and once people get this popularity based notion out of their heads, it will only get better.
The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0. BSD, Unix, and Linux are very similar in many ways. Many Steam games work natively on Linux & MacOSX (another BSD Unix fork) and run great! I’m sure even some probably run faster due to less bloated system services running by default than on Windows.
Ni no kuni linux
When will there be a native GNU/Linux build of this game?
If that’s not planned, what are the reasons?
Tell me more about your job as a specialist in the field of market analysation, is it exciting?
Being that the game already runs on BSD, it’s unlikely a hard job porting. Judging by the past. forever, we’re unlikely to see any games on Linux from an asian (big) studio anyway.
When will there be a native GNU/Linux build of this game? :bpenguin:
If that’s not planned, what are the reasons? :coconut:
No, most Japanese do not make games for Linux. Some Occidental cheated them saying that linux is not for games.
4 янв. 2018 в 7:31
4 янв. 2018 в 16:55
11 янв. 2018 в 15:01
Here in Japan Linux is almost completely unknown, even by the net savvy. I think they equate something “free” as “cheap and inferior”. I’ve gotten many of my friends to try Ubuntu because of the readily available Japanese translation, however applications in Japanese are much harder to find. I prefer Linux because of the ease of switching back and forth between languages, but more needs to be done about character input before I can truly convert the curious.
Sad to see how yet again the public perception of the popularity contest of operating systems wins out over support for Steam boxes & Linux.
Inherent in any of these types of analysis is the difficulty in establishing unbiased data. For example, someone helpfully points out the problem with using english search terms globally as a data source:
Agreed you don’t see much Linux from the average Japanese consumer. Nor much awareness. In fact, I remember a study(2003/4?) that showed Windows usage in Japan was higher than the U.S. However….
How many Japanese do you know are going to search for Linux in English? How many of them use google as opposed to Yahoo or Goo? Unless things have changed(certainly possible), Google is not the top-ranked search engine in Japan. Even in this report, Japan ranks 10th, a tie with Italy with a 55.0 index ranking. It’s not shown in the “list” to the left side though, as J follows I.
Also, try Turbo Linux or Vine Linux as opposed to any of the distributions listed above. Not suprisingly, both of those are Japan-centric distributions. Secondly, BSD has traditionally had more of a presence in Japan particularly at the ISP/Corp level. I believe they tie Russia in that category for the top spot.
Another example of potentially skewed data for OS market share:
Using web browser data (e.g. User-Agent headers, javascript analytics includes, etc. ). This makes the assumption that users do not have Ad & Analytics blocking browser plugins, and that they have not enabled privacy settings or User-Agent masking. Typical Linux users are tech savvy and privacy aware. Therefore, one would expect that this class of OS users would be more likely to install AdBlock or take privacy measures which would skew the browser-sourced data by nature.
To say that there is no market for games on Linux & Unix based systems is foolish. Most games ran on Windows only back in the 1990’s, and that has changed a lot with Steam. The market for gaming on Linux is still being created, and once people get this popularity based notion out of their heads, it will only get better.
The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0. BSD, Unix, and Linux are very similar in many ways. Many Steam games work natively on Linux & MacOSX (another BSD Unix fork) and run great! I’m sure even some probably run faster due to less bloated system services running by default than on Windows.
Ni no kuni linux
When will there be a native GNU/Linux build of this game?
If that’s not planned, what are the reasons?
Tell me more about your job as a specialist in the field of market analysation, is it exciting?
Being that the game already runs on BSD, it’s unlikely a hard job porting. Judging by the past. forever, we’re unlikely to see any games on Linux from an asian (big) studio anyway.
When will there be a native GNU/Linux build of this game? :bpenguin:
If that’s not planned, what are the reasons? :coconut:
No, most Japanese do not make games for Linux. Some Occidental cheated them saying that linux is not for games.
4 янв. 2018 в 7:31
4 янв. 2018 в 16:55
11 янв. 2018 в 15:01
Here in Japan Linux is almost completely unknown, even by the net savvy. I think they equate something “free” as “cheap and inferior”. I’ve gotten many of my friends to try Ubuntu because of the readily available Japanese translation, however applications in Japanese are much harder to find. I prefer Linux because of the ease of switching back and forth between languages, but more needs to be done about character input before I can truly convert the curious.
Sad to see how yet again the public perception of the popularity contest of operating systems wins out over support for Steam boxes & Linux.
Inherent in any of these types of analysis is the difficulty in establishing unbiased data. For example, someone helpfully points out the problem with using english search terms globally as a data source:
Agreed you don’t see much Linux from the average Japanese consumer. Nor much awareness. In fact, I remember a study(2003/4?) that showed Windows usage in Japan was higher than the U.S. However….
How many Japanese do you know are going to search for Linux in English? How many of them use google as opposed to Yahoo or Goo? Unless things have changed(certainly possible), Google is not the top-ranked search engine in Japan. Even in this report, Japan ranks 10th, a tie with Italy with a 55.0 index ranking. It’s not shown in the “list” to the left side though, as J follows I.
Also, try Turbo Linux or Vine Linux as opposed to any of the distributions listed above. Not suprisingly, both of those are Japan-centric distributions. Secondly, BSD has traditionally had more of a presence in Japan particularly at the ISP/Corp level. I believe they tie Russia in that category for the top spot.
Another example of potentially skewed data for OS market share:
Using web browser data (e.g. User-Agent headers, javascript analytics includes, etc. ). This makes the assumption that users do not have Ad & Analytics blocking browser plugins, and that they have not enabled privacy settings or User-Agent masking. Typical Linux users are tech savvy and privacy aware. Therefore, one would expect that this class of OS users would be more likely to install AdBlock or take privacy measures which would skew the browser-sourced data by nature.
To say that there is no market for games on Linux & Unix based systems is foolish. Most games ran on Windows only back in the 1990’s, and that has changed a lot with Steam. The market for gaming on Linux is still being created, and once people get this popularity based notion out of their heads, it will only get better.
The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0. BSD, Unix, and Linux are very similar in many ways. Many Steam games work natively on Linux & MacOSX (another BSD Unix fork) and run great! I’m sure even some probably run faster due to less bloated system services running by default than on Windows.