Linux

[Nakiamiie]

I think Final Fantasy XIV should be ported over to Linux sometime after 2.0. Why? There are very few games made to work with it without the need of another program to emulate it. It would open up the opportunity to get more players in the game!

Do you guys think there is a chance of Square Enix doing this?

I'm only using Windows because I want to play FFXIV. If they make it easier for Linux users to play, I'm so switching to Linux forever.

[Zenaku]

I would like to know if SE would consider Linux FFXIV, perhaps include it in a players poll to see if there is enough interest.

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Link?

it's a very old post yoshi-p said or one of the dev if there a enough support for it and people want it then it would happen this topic is helping that right now

[Valmonte]

i don't see why they need to do a whole rewrite, the PS3 Version is written in OpenCL.

[Mirage]

I'm no Linux user but I guess it would be fine if they tried to make the game in a way that wasn't WINE-unfriendly.

[KoKuToru]

Who cares about Linux ?


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I am a 100% Linux user !
I am playing FFXIV with wine.. the performance is 1/4-1/10 of "real windows"
But who cares ? I love Linux !

Linux or Windows isn't the problem here !
Give me a Windows OpenGL client !
It will run perfectly fine with same performance at Linux (via wine [as long as you use NVIDIA]).

DirectX is evil !

[Delsus]

No way. It doesn't matter how many people actually use Linux, it's a matter of how many want to play games on it. Look at the statistics for things like the Humble Bundle: http://www.humblebundle.com/

Linux is a very niche market for games, which is why not many games are made for it. Mac users have relatively few choices in games as well, *especially* for MMOs, so even that would be more likely. Though, as others pointed out, the graphics engine wasn't built for it, so it's very unlikely.

The 2.0 engine is built around OpenGL because (as I said earlier) the PS3 uses OpenGL, all they need to do is port the PS3 client (made around OpenGL) to Linux.

Also people may not want to play games on Linux because they are forced to use Wine for most triple A games and there are compatibility problems for alot of programs, alot of graphics options aren't supported and you can take a performance hit running in an emulated environmnet, if more companies made more triple A games that run native to Linux I bet a lot more people would want to use it for gaming.

I'm no Linux user but I guess it would be fine if they tried to make the game in a way that wasn't WINE-unfriendly.

FFXIV is actually very Wine friendly, from what I have heard it runs alot better than native Windows, and providing they get the OpenGL right a native version should run even better because of the resources that are freed up using Linux

Who cares about Linux ?


...

I am a 100% Linux user !
I am playing FFXIV with wine.. the performance is 1/4-1/10 of "real windows"
But who cares ? I love Linux !

Linux or Windows isn't the problem here !
Give me a Windows OpenGL client !
It will run perfectly fine with same performance at Linux (via wine [as long as you use NVIDIA]).

DirectX is evil !

See above and I agree 100% Linux does trump Windows in every way except compatibility, Wine helps somewhat with that but it is a little spotty.

[Yves]

I was looking at Ubuntu's site, and apparently over 20 million people use it if I'm remembering correctly. Not sure how many use Windows.

I work with Ubuntu for a non-profit and we install it on computers that we give to impoverished families in third-world countries. Ubuntu is primarily big in either those places or emerging markets. I.E. - places without a stable internet connection readily available.

[Valmonte]

The 2.0 engine is built around OpenGL because (as I said earlier) the PS3 uses OpenGL, all they need to do is port the PS3 client (made around OpenGL) to Linux.

No it Doesn't, its programed using OpenCL which can use both Direct X Libraries and OpenGL. the PS3 only supports OpenCl v1.0 which only has compatibility With the DirectX 9 Libraries and OpenGL 3.x.

OpenCL is now in revision 1.2 which can handle Dx10/Dx11 libraries along with the latest version of OpenGL.

[Skies]

I work with Ubuntu for a non-profit and we install it on computers that we give to impoverished families in third-world countries. Ubuntu is primarily big in either those places or emerging markets. I.E. - places without a stable internet connection readily available.

Hey. Ubuntu is also used in very respectable places like military organizations. It's a useable system.

[Mirage]

No one is arguing that isn't usable. They are arguing that a large amount of the Ubuntu "population" aren't gamers, and even less are MMO gamers.

I think the best thing that could happen for FF14onLinux is a MacOS release of the game, which would mean they'd do an opengl version which WINE would like a lot.