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Quoting: Anonymouswhat is the point of linux when most games don't have linux icon even for some games that have native linux support? is that early blooper or just lame feature?

dang, i ment linux subdomain, not linux it self, lol. my bad, my bad

The Linux domain is our store on their shop for you to support us by buying games there, they don't allow you to outright remove games from being shown.

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Quoting: AnonymousYeah, it really sucks to have so many choices of games to play. I could see how a dev wouldn't want another dev to be able to try making money while they make money; it's practically stealing! :S

You obviously don't understand the issue with a comment like that. This is nothing to do with greed, but visibility.

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Yeah that's annoying as hell as well edgley.

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansWhy are everyone blaming Steam for DRM version of game wich is really a choice of Devs not steam...damn..

Steam has a bunch DRM free games!

The problem people seem to have is downloading and logging into Steam, for me though that's no more of a pain than downloading Chrome every-time I install Linux, then logging into a random website I purchased a game from.

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Well others answered what I wanted to.

Wanting to get into Linux doesn't mean they will, they have a big publisher who controls Origin. Unless Origin comes to Linux (unlikely) I can't see Frostbite being on Linux either.

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Quoting: DeformalWell, If you need, I can write, where you can find enough low price - 13.94$

Where is that? We need to be careful with outside key providers.

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Quoting: WiderwilligWhat about the Frostbite Engine? Is there any hint about Linux support?

IIRC, the Frostbite Engine is developed by DICE which belongs to EA.
I'd be more than surprised to see anything Linux related from EA, until SteamOS will be overly successful and, thus, "proves" that there is a market for Linux-based games.

I actually am pretty sure I've read somewhere that indeed Frostbite for Linux is in the works too.

And a quick Googling confirmed it:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/33438/dice-says-it-will-support-linux-could-see-battlefield-4-on-steamos/index.html [External Link]

It's also listed under "game engines for Linux" on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Game_engines_for_Linux [External Link]

I've said it before about that article, it's totally wrong.

They never said they will support Linux, but that they want to which are very different things.

We covered DICE with an actual quote here: http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/lars-gustavsson-of-dice-creators-of-battlefield-want-to-get-into-linux.2561

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Sorry folks all gone now.

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Quoting: scaineBottom line - it's amazing what Icculus does, but porting a game as an after thought is NOT easy and will never have the same quality as a game developed natively. Even Ryan Gordon isn't that good.

It's not a question of how good he is, he is certainly capable. The question is support costs, developers like Tripwire (Killing Floor) would have paid him to port it, not to support it. So once a developer thinks it's good enough Ryan will get his money and then they would part ways.

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I never get my hopes up about anything Randy & Gearbox do since their utter failure with Colonial Marines (not on Linux), they utterly lied about it including showing game-play trailers that weren't in the game! Thankfully that was my last Windows purchase, hopefully forever.

Sounds like you're butthurt, or why else would bring that unrelated stuff up? :P

Of course I am, I paid out for two pre-order copies ~£60 of Colonial Marines based on "actual game-play" videos from Gearbox, to which it all turned out to be lies.

What's not to be "butthurt" about that?

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