I very much expected this. Though, a hint of a marketshare when they consider re evaluating would would have been nice, I guess we gotta' go with what we get. I still think it is not the best way to evaluate a potential customer number out of web browsing statistics (I think valve could tell them pretty well the number of potential rpg/mmorpg/rts players inlinux).

But the market changes, maybe we will see them change their mind in future. At least they say that they are watching and are willing to re-evaluate in future.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I just got a random lockup at ~3000 people trying to build a school .... not perect but the game is rally great. Hope tey can fix the lock ups... the game is just too much fun to be destrooyed by random lockup. At least they seem to be random to me.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Maelrane

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Blobbtw. Steam just reached 1000 Linux games :)

Hmm almost XD
http://puu.sh/guAWo/228099e676.png [External Link]

I see 1002 oO :D

I did see 1000 month ago. "showing 1 - 25 of 1851"

Proof? http://i59.tinypic.com/9qbd47.png [External Link]
Austria seems to be a great place for linux gaming :D. You seem to be lacking a looot of games :D.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Strange thing, on my "slightly older" machine (550 GTX and i7, 4 years old) I do run the game on 30 fps too.

Yeye, my wife didn't hide the cc, she wanted to play the game too and bought it on her acc before I got home from work, so I get to buy it too :D.

And I do love it runs a decent windowed mode.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I need to message my wife to hide my credit card :D.

Even though, my PC is pretty old with a first gen i7 and gtx550, I probably won't be able to play it at all :D. But we'll see.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Most importantly: matte display :D.

The config option I'd use would be pretty expensive, but I'll need a new laptop this year, so I'll probably give it a look later this year.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Looks good, I'm waiting for a good RTS game - this could be one. At least looks very promising.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

In Feral I trust. That's a 100 % buy as soon as it's released.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BomyneQuestion: I know OSX is based on an Unix core... and I saw X11 installed on my Mac... How different is OSX from linux? More to the point, would it be difficult to port the OSX versions of the games to Linux?

Graphics whise, WoW on MacOSX uses OpenGL to my knowledge. The transition for the graphics engine shouldn't be too hard (except for porting the build to Linux, which often is one of the harder things to do).

A huge difference is the sound output in Linux, the keyboard/mouse input, the screen handling (resolutions, fullscreen/windowed, multiple monitors etc), networking code (a bit different in BSD/MacOSX). This can be solved today pretty easily since SDL2.0 was released, but would be certainly some porting effort.

As an outsider it's hard to tell how much effort this would require. Since it's known from sources who were at Blizzard that they did run their games on Linux already (at least WoW, they called it "internal testing only", though, we don't know how far this port went), I'd guess they could support it pretty easily but may not want to due to other reasons (another platform to officially support, investment costs and benefits out of it cash-whise - to put it simple, they doubt they'd benefit from this at the current stage).

We may not forget: They'd be in the need to port tools to (Battle.NET, Downloader, Anti-Cheat and what the heck else they do have we don't know yet).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

@Supay - Valve very well knows about the distribution of Windows and Linux users. What they don't know is our hardware, and that's basically what they're most interested in, since it's a baseline for developers on target audiences combined with "what games you have", "how long did you play them" and "how many similar games you own", what hardware specs they have to hit for maximum distribution range.

Within that said, it's clear that they are more interested in the major gaming party, even if linux is getting some tention and news lately, it's still a considerable small market to be not business critical for developers, maximum a "nice to know".

View this comment - View article - View full comments