What type of FPS is it?
Seems to be rather CS:GO or at least Battlefield than CoD. From what I've seen I'd say: Faster than CS:GO, slower than Battlefield?
As it's using the Source Engine it should be a native port. *afaik* toGL was only a mid-time layer and long-term they wanted to implement native oGL - or now Vulkan. With Vulkan out it might be a really nice game even.

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Quoting: MurderousMincePieLooking forward to Saints Row 3 immensely, never played the fourth so that should be cool too.

But I really cannot wait for Payday II and Alien Isolation. Oooooh boy that is gonna be gooood. Should we have a celebratory GOL bank robbery when it débuts?

Maybe they put in some new masks too - with penguins? Or maybe torvalds and Stallmans faces? xDD

Definitely washington will be a lot more poor after the release!

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Payday 2 anyone? And Saints Row ofcourse :D

Not much of my library is not yet on Steam or at least announced.

The only things I'd like to have on Linux for now are:
Assetto Corsa (ner 0% propability sadly), Next Car Game (N/A), and BeamNG (quite high propability to become native Linux rather soon :D).

Mafia II would be nice too, but I played it quite often already.

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Quoting: BdMdesigNDid you understand how a survey works?

No.

Yes. But I didn't argue that the survey was precise.

Ok only for you:

Steam have actual ca. 6.200.000 users.

So steam aks now the 6.200.00 users in the HWsurvey.
Now all Windows clients get this poll but not all Linuxuser.

I got it more often on Linux.

In such a survey, 100% are those who also participate in it and not the total 6,200,000 users.
And that is precisely the reason why this survey says nothing.

This is why pretty much ANY survey 'doesn't say anything'. Because the rest could per chance be actually completely the opposite.
Actually our little survey here is even worse:
We've got ~80 comments. Not every commenter stated that they would only, or more often, get the poll on Windows - but we just assume we all did.
Now assume that *at least* 1% of 6.200.000 Steam Users are Linuxers (maybe even more, but this would just show that our poll here is even worse), which makes:
>62.000 Users.
In our case 100% are 80 - and not 62.000 which makes just ~0.13%. And THIS should be represantative? xD

If we even took more realistic values, oh, your 'statistics' would be so SHREKT.

Again: Twice, Thrice, no, multiply Steam's Linux Users by 5 ! - And EA still wouldn't care.

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Quoting: BdMdesigN

Market share by category
Desktop, laptop, netbook Dec 2014 1.34% (Ubuntu, etc.)

Net Applications say it's 1.34%.

And again: the Steam HWsurvey is wrrong and many have it also confirmed here.
So maybe only 50% or more of the all desktopusers (Linux, Mac, Windows) are gamer.

Thus, your statement is false as false.

And you are doing the same mistake.
Maybe a higher percentage of desktop users *on Windows* are gamers and a lower one on Linux?
Hm, this would maybe even lead to lower than 1%.

Yes, we cannot "proof" it's 1%. Maybe it's more - a bit. But irrelevantly more.

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Quoting: BdMdesigNAnd now don't say, if i play only open source games, thats i'm not are a linux gamer.

In no way doing that.

And i sayed maybe, not we have.
My point is that the 1% are incorrect. No matter what you do, the 1% remain false.

Well, I accept your point. It might be very well right.
BUT: EA doesn't care. This was a small twitter one-line short explanation why they don't support Linux. Probably they even ran their own numbers. And it might even hit 2% - they don't care.
I guess it would only matter if Linux gaming would be >5% AT LEAST.

Still, imho, using those numbers is dumb - but well, they do. And no matter whether 1% is wrong - 15% is too. And anything just merely up to 5% too. Sad, yes. Truth, sadly too.

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Quoting: BdMdesigNHow you can say the 1% Linux gamer are correct?

Maybe we have 15% linux gamer not steam gamer?

15% Linux gamers - no, definitely not. And most of them use steam, at least those who are in the target group of EA.
It might not be 1%. But it never is far more than 3%. And 3% - they say, I do not agree - is not enough for profiting.

I wouldnt say the numbers are wrong. I'd say it does not make any sense to run the numbers.

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Quoting: BladeforceWe will never see EA on Linux because EA have had tea and biscuits with Microsoft for decades. Not going to happen, they may as well be a part of Microsoft. Facts right there

Contrary to what you seem to think/imply, there is no (anti-Linux) conspiracy.

Conspiracy? I would not say there is such but nor would I strictly deny it. I'd definitely say though that EA is overly MS-friendly for whatever reason. I would not say - as I pointed out earlier - that the decision should only be based on market share.
It duly makes sense for publishers to support platforms that are more independent just for the reason to become more independent themselves too.
The problem is: EA is one of those who have no real problem with them and MS being rather 'friends' than fierce enemies.

There was such anti-Linux campaigns not many years ago by MS and as you said: They are a company too - and thus want make money. They do not contribute to the Kernel just for fun or gratefulness - but because they need to.
But they try to hold Linux small. Obviously. I cannot blame them for hoping that one of their bigger challengers stays small - and trying to achieve this.

There's no conspiracy but I could definitely imagine there being non-formal agreements to better cooperate between some of the bigger players. And also between EA and MS.
As I said, it's not all down to numbers and EA could definitely have an interest into getting more independent from MS. It's just that they profit from this monopoly more than others.
my 2ct

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I think market share shouldn't be it all. Linux (especially when Frostbite can do Vulkan) isn't more cost than they get back - when you just run the numbers.

But there are other points that do not show up in those reports: Helping an *independent* platform to grow.
Independency means: Independent from Microsoft on DX. EA was among the first to use Mantle - because of DX not doing the job well enough anymore. And why that? Because MS didn't need to fear other technologies.

I cannot understand: Do they want such a situation again? Do they still want that MS is able to dictate them how to program? What toolchains to use?

They should see their power to be able to drive independent.
This saves money. But maybe less than MS is able to pay them.

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Hm, good I didn't uy it yet, coz no Linux :D

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