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> encourage AAA companies to support crossplatform builds I think the main problem that game developers quote for not wanting to release their games on linux i
by mariusor 5y ago
> encourage AAA companies to support crossplatform builds
I think the main problem that game developers quote for not wanting to release their games on linux is that the sales they get on the platform do not counter balance the increased number of support requests that come from it.
The one thing Valve could do to mitigate this issue, would be to allow devs to not offers support on specific platforms. I think that the linux community at large is able to work around issues even without dev support.
Another issue that I've seen over the years, and one that even seasoned developers fall into, is that they do not seem to be aware of the Steam Linux Runtime as a single platform to support linux, but start getting discouraged by how many distributions there are, how many versions of glibc to support and all that mess.
- Shadonototro 5y agoStadia is a thing now, many AAA companies already support native linux builds [1], lot of AAA and popular titles including indie ones Maybe valve should get into cloud gaming and push linux as backend OS Maybe they should lower the 30% cut they get if linux is supported [1] https://stadia.google.com/store https://stadia.google.com/store