Quoting: GuestAll this banter, and nobody has raised the obvious: VR will take off only if the adult entertainment industry gets behind it.

As far as I know, they already *are* behind it.

Make no mistake. VR is here to stay. Anyone saying otherwise have just gone in sour grapes mode.

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Quoting: KimyrielleYeah, the "not enough resources available" is SO bullshit coming from one of world's largest corporations. How about telling the truth once and go "not enough interest" for once?

The latter is pretty much compatible with my own stance. I couldn't care less if they release on Linux or not as there is not a single trace of interest in VR in me. I feel sorry for all the people who were looking forward to it, though.

Hardware support is funny thing though, such excuses are used very, very rarely, especially about hardware which has lot of experimental nature.

I really don't know. Way too many times putting something on pause means it's canceled. If that's true, it's plainly stupid for company not to tell so. If it's not true, they needed better explanation what's going on.

I am tired of people saying 'yeah, I expected, we are not worthy' or 'Windows 10 will eat you alive'. Sometimes I wish Linux would have fanboys like Mac. At least then I wouldn't have to feel bad about using excellent, awesome and free operational system every day.

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Quoting: jarfilVR headsets should not have software/SDK support, but system support. A standard, open and free VR support that should work with any VR headset, no matter if it's the Oculus, the Steam one, or any other. Much like you wouldn't expect to install LG or Sony SDKs to make use of your monitor.

You sure can make such claim, but in the world where TrackIR vendor uses screwed up interpretation of copyright so no one would produce alternative drivers for their hardware I think you will be in minority for this.

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Quoting: linuxgamerAll in on HTC and Valve!

Valve drags feet with Unity/UE plugin Linux support.

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Also while SteamVR is released on Linux, none of big engine plugins are yet. HTC haven' said anything about platforms.

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Problem is I don't buy excuse about 'focus'. They have Facebook's money. That's more than enough to have someone chucking away with OpenGL support and expanding upon it.

They can get away with this and they will. As usual, Linux community will just shrug this off and go on, won't say anything and anyone who will say anything will get asked to get their reality check verified.

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Good, because I have avoided to mention or recommend this game on Linux for performance issues. If those get solved (small itches aside), it will get recommend from me, as it is fun and engaging FPS, although story is quite generic (but that's karma for zombie genre in nutshell).

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Quoting: liamdaweUpdated the article again, and the Larian person has now deleted their comments.

How we know it's employee account? Just curious. If those comments are true, then wow, that's quite a saddening display of attitude from indie developer. I guess if you are successful, you can shit on your backers openly without remorse.

EDIT: But at least there's some indication what happened - they first wrote game only supporting DirectX. Now they have new iteration of engine which will support cross platform. it's not a bad thing, but communication is multiple levels bad bad bad.

EDIT 2: aaaaand all other dev comments got deleted from reddit. Seriously, stop jumping around. Just tell how it is.

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Btw, any calculations of Linux gaming community outside Steam? Linux users are way more aware about DRM and can opt for buying games without DRM attached to it. Would they be 10 - 20% of Steam user base? 50%? Commence speculation! :D

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GTAV and Elite: Dangerous most likely pushed Windows usage numbers a lot higher than usual. Both OS X and Linux drops indicate that.

Can we have better way to calculate Linux gaming size?

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