Linux

[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 ?


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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 !

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.