Time for the Linux port!

[Delsus]

This is a waste of development time for an extremely niche market with extremely poor hardware support. People who buy linux machines needs to face the reality that they don't have a gaming rig. Not a real one. You made your bed with your choice of OS knowing full well the gaming support it had. It is a waste of time to develop yet another client for a bunch of people just being stubborn about their OS. It's less than 2% of OS's out there. It isn't worth the time. Even if they did make it the graphics driver support is so poor on Linux that it's a minefield to even try getting into for support. It's just not financially worth it.

You do realise there are somewhere near 2 billion PCs in the world, therefore 2% of 2 billion is 40 million, if you think about who uses Linux, a possible amount of people into gaming on Linux you could still be looking at a potential market in the millions.

The only thing keeping me from full timing Linux is official software support.

[kidvideo]

rofl, linux!

Tho... there is no reason I shouldn't be able to play ffxiv in my iphone! Just need so somehow mount the phone on a dualshock 4 controller...

[MrLeonheart]

SE plz develop a client for the Sega Dreamcast tia

[Tiggy]

You do realise there are somewhere near 2 billion PCs in the world, therefore 2% of 2 billion is 40 million, if you think about who uses Linux, a possible amount of people into gaming on Linux you could still be looking at a potential market in the millions.

You don't know how many of those Linux machines run up to date distros that even have a hope of running this game. Many of those machines are servers as well and not personal machines reducing the viable number even further. It may be 40 million machines but that doesn't really help us here. The true amount of those machines that can viably run a game like this is very small. This is an issue of time vs money for square. Is the dev time worth it for such a small player base. I don't think so for even a second.

The only thing keeping me from full timing Linux is official software support.

This is the main thing holding back the platform in general to be completely honest. If companies making hardware don't take it seriously then the companies that require that hardware won't either. I.E. The game makers require working 3d acceleration with properly supported drivers. Something they really don't have right now.

[Psychojau]

This is the main thing holding back the platform in general to be completely honest. If companies making hardware don't take it seriously then the companies that require that hardware won't either. I.E. The game makers require working 3d acceleration with properly supported drivers. Something they really don't have right now.

Okokok but wake up : now SteamOS is here ! I'm playing with my gaming computer (I5, GTX780, 16GB RAM, P8Z77-I DELUXE, Turtule Beach Earforce Seven, Steelseries Gaming Mouse, G11 old great keyboard ). I'm playing native games like borderland 2, Broken Sword, Dota2, Counter-strike : Go, Planetary Annihilation, Shroud of the Avatar, Tropico 5, Goat Simulator (THE HIT xD) etc... I'm using Ubuntu and trust me : there are NOT a SINGLE ONE compatibility or perfs problem !

[Bluejay]

Random Thoughts:

I would imagine being the only triple AAA MMO available on Linux when Steam hits would make a significant impact to the player base size of FF 14. The press alone might be worth the cost of getting the game running in Wine or porting it.

Mac OS is Unix based so if they have that down it might even lessen the work needed to get the game running on Linux.

As much as I like Arch, I would think SteamOS is the only distro they need to worry about. It would probably run on Ubuntu as well since they are both Debian based.

[The_Leon]

As much as I would love a Linux client, I don't see it coming until steam OS is sold at Walmart in the US and similar stores world wide.

[The_Leon]

Meant steam machines or machines running steam os in phone can't edit

[Tiggy]

Okokok but wake up : now SteamOS is here ! I'm playing with my gaming computer (I5, GTX780, 16GB RAM, P8Z77-I DELUXE, Turtule Beach Earforce Seven, Steelseries Gaming Mouse, G11 old great keyboard ). I'm playing native games like borderland 2, Broken Sword, Dota2, Counter-strike : Go, Planetary Annihilation, Shroud of the Avatar, Tropico 5, Goat Simulator (THE HIT xD) etc... I'm using Ubuntu and trust me : there are NOT a SINGLE ONE compatibility or perfs problem !

Steam OS is an idea barely out in the wild and hasn't from what I've seen had very heavy traction. Compare that small list of OLD games with a real list of games PC can play and I'll yawn and fall asleep while you go down the PC list cause it will take you so long. It's not even really on the same playing field.

As for driver issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
It's a known issue.

[seraf]

Personally I thing they're over stretching themselves by supporting another platform in MacOS.

Now you say Linux but Linux in itself isn't an operating system like Windows and MacOS is. There's some standardisation with Linux distributions but not all Linux distributions are the same. So how do SE support Linux, do they choose to support one distribution or do they support others.

They could support SteamOS which is Linux based and considering that FFXIV is already on Steam for Windows it would make sense.