qwixter: How big of a sales percentage do you think linux is for gog?
Without a clue, given that I don't have access to GOG's confidential data. All we have are those two numbers (2.01% and 1.64% for Mac and Linux respectively).
Ideally, every Mac and Linux user should buy every available to her/him game (that would be the absolute maximum currently attainable). In reality, this does not happen. There are losses.But there are two types of losses involved: objective (uninteresting genre, oversaturation with games of the same type), which are can not be helped, and subjective to GOG (lack of multiplayer, compared to Steam, lack of Galaxy client, lesser catalogue, compared to Steam, inferior support etc.) depending on GOG's actions (or inaction) that turn off customers away from GOG and into Steam.
I'd say, GOG has lost Linux market to Steam plain and square.
This article gives us 81.1% of Steam being most used store and only 16.2% for GOG. Even Humble Store beats GOG (30.8%) nearly twice! And with this news regarding Galaxy… you know, Linux gamers are rather riled up (some are really fuming :) ).
I think, we can safely divide that 1.64% by 10, getting around 0.164% of revenue. Pretty bad. But GOG kinda shoot itself in the foot with this "we don't have resources" attitude. And I don't know about how MacOS users feel themselves here, but some are
not too happy either.
immi101: the statistic refers to general website traffic (including mobile devices).
Doubtful that this is synonym with the distribution of the PC gaming population.
Correct, GOG's (and Steam's as well) statistics among gamers is skewed against Linux due to not all games have native versions and some don't bother playing uninteresting to them games at all while others use WINE or dualboot to Windows (which rightfully make them Windows gamers but if that games were available on Linux they would count towards Linux instead).
CORRECTION: Yes, immi101 is right, we should exclude mobile OSes and normalize the data. After that:
Windows: 88.00%
MacOS X: 6.61%
Linux: 5.39%
After GOG's popularity correction Linux is 0.54% (still bad).