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Borderlands 2 Released For Linux With A Sale

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The day has landed folks. Borderlands 2 is now officially available for Linux and it brings us some excellent FPS action.

Courtesy of our friends at Aspyr Media the new port may have a few rough edges (what new port doesn't?), but it's a really great game to have on our platform. The game is also on sale, so there's never been a better time to pickup a copy, or if you already owned it be sure to grab some DLC to show your support.

Getting games like this shows the strength of our platform, and shows that Gearbox and Aspyr Media both see some sort of gaming future for Linux. We did interview Aspyr Media back in July, so check that out if you haven't already.

I still find it amusing that the head of Gearbox told us not to get our hopes up, and this was going on behind the scenes. When I asked Aspyr about it, they had this to say:
Michael Blair, Aspyr MediaYou know its funny because we just happened to approach 2K/Gearbox about the project right after Randy made those comments and have been working on the port since. We hope we made Gearbox proud with our effort. They are amazing to work with, and we are HUGE fans of their work.


We also spoke to Aspyr Media about how the port went and what they expect from the Borderlands 2 on Linux:
Michael Blair, Aspyr MediaWe are SUPER excited to bring this much beloved franchise to Linux and hope that we continue to meet expectations from the unbelievably supportive Linux gaming community.

This port was challenging, for sure. Performance was at the core of our efforts and while ATI and Intel didn’t make the cut for release, we continue to work on performance for those chipsets and hope to come to a level of performance we can stand behind as gamers in the near future.


Important Note
It is currently only supporting Nvidia graphics cards as it seems the Intel and AMD graphics chips don't give enough performance, but this isn't an issue on Mac. Looks like another driver issue. Would this be a good time to gloat that I use Nvidia? Of course it is! Woo!
In all seriousness though I sincerely hope AMD & Intel put out a quick fixed up drivers to enable all Linux gamers to have a decent experience.

Where do I buy it already?!
Also GameAgent.com which is run by Aspyr Media now supports Linux, so you can support Aspyr directly without Steam taking a cut if that's your thing. Seems like a great way to support the developer directly, and you get Steam keys of course. It was something Linux users requested, so they made it happen.

If you don't want to buy Borderlands 2 from GameAgent then grab Borderlands 2 on Steam. Can't see a reason not to support Aspyr Media directly though.

For this release Aspyr will of course realise there will be a lot of cross-over from people who used Windows/Wine, so this is why it's important to pick up a few DLC packs to not only give Aspyr some income, but to show them we are a market worth continuing and I cannot stress that enough.

I've played a fair bit of it already and absolutely love it. I already loved the Borderlands series of games after playing the first game years ago, but having Borderlands 2 on Linux is pure gold gaming.

The visuals are excellent and the game-play gets really frantic. Any shooter fans will be in heaven with it.

Be sure to let us know how you find it in our comments. This is going to steal a lot of my time away, now if you'll excuse me I have some loot to find and some bandits to annihilate. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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0ttman Sep 30, 2014
Game plays fine for me.

Every component in my pc is at 5 yrs old except my Video card.

Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 Driver 331.38
8gig ram
Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
aL Sep 30, 2014
All this season pass, prequel, dlc, goty boggles my mind

I love fps and bought the goty edition... but can anybody brief me in how are all these tied together?

Also, for the guy who wants to pay more... buy extra copies, dlc and prequel... that should make you pay that extra cash... and also, they will count as more people playing instead of one (^_^)

PS: I dont like dlcs and usually never buy them. Either the game is worth it alone or it doesnt. Im not a cow to be milked. This time I made an exception because of the joy of the good news :)
k0oaa Sep 30, 2014
Very happy, brilliant news for the players and for Linux AAA.

I hope my save game is remembered :D and all those Golden Keys !
sr_ls_boy Sep 30, 2014
I'm sure Microsoft is starting to get nervous. Just a look at the steam main page is enough to send
a major shareholder into a cold sweat. :D
seven Sep 30, 2014
can't wait to trow money at aspyre's next effort in the linux space

runs like a charm on i3/550ti gtx/fedora 20

a job well done by some awesome guys, i'm sure :D
zed888 Sep 30, 2014
Has anyone gotten their keys from gameagent yet? My order is still being processed, but I got a receipt from Paypal.

Edit: looked up the key, and it works. The order info says mac for some reason, but everything seems fine.

And for the guy who doesn't want to save money- go buy Wasteland 2. So good.
Segata Sanshiro Sep 30, 2014
Oh, I wish I had read this article before buying from Steam, would have got it from GameAgent instead. Sorry Aspyr :(
EKRboi Sep 30, 2014
WOOHOO! installing now! I saw this article while on my lunch break today, I wish I had not. It made my day draggggg out ;)
WorMzy Sep 30, 2014
Balls. The GameAgent site's working now, but they only accept credit card, or some "clickandbuy" rubbish. :|

Why can't companies make it easy for me to give them money? :'(
Xpander Sep 30, 2014
works fine.. havent encountered any main menu crashes or anything.
to improve performance: __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 %command% into steam launch options (Nvidia users only)
Happy Gaming!



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