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Blizzard has to, Valve already has a Steam for Linux beta client and at least 41 games ported to Linux. Team Fortress 2 for example plays better and faster wit

Blizzard has to, Valve already has a Steam for Linux beta client and at least 41 games ported to Linux. Team Fortress 2 for example plays better and faster with a higher frame rate on Ubuntu 12.10 Linux than it did on my Windows 7 Home Premium on my Acer laptop. Oh yeah check out PlayonLinux http://www.playonlinux.com/ http://www.playonlinux.com/ to run some Windows Video Games under WINE for Linux. The Windows Steam Client works great on WINE and most games can run on WINE just fine as well. For some reason Civilization V plays better under WINE than it did in Windows 7. I would like to see a Linux native version of Civilization V come out, it would rock. The PlayOnLinux Python client configures different WINE versions and profiles for you and it can even install Internet Explorer from version 1 to 8, and some versions of MS-Office (not all) if you really need them. I see in the next five years a move to Linux as the next big gaming platform by major video game makers. The reason being Linux runs video games better than Windows, and does not cost as much as an Apple Mac OS X gaming machine. Microsoft is really killing themselves with Windows 8 and Windows RT, and software companies are considering moving to Linux as a result.

mtgx 14y ago
I believe that Linux will become very popular with games within 5 years, too, but even if you don't believe that, what is even more likely to happen is that most games will be made on OpenGL thanks to Android, iOS, (supposedly) PS4, and even Steam boxes. That in turn should make it a lot easier to support games on Linux in general, and in turn it might help the market share of Linux on the desktop, too.
- b0rsuk 14y ago
  I don't think many of existing games will be ported, but B-class (with medium budgets) games are coming to Linux in a big way. Wasteland 2, Eternity, Godus, Castle Story, Planetary Annihilation, War for the Overworld, Double Fine, Maia... "Indie" usually means a budget of around $100000, and smallest of these are multiples of that. Plus, almost all humble indie bundles fully support Linux. I think the outcome is clear: some of these games will make a lot of money. Big publishers and devs will want a cut of the pie.
armored_mammal 14y ago
Here's one Linux user who'd love to see Civ for Linux.

mtgx 14y ago

I believe that Linux will become very popular with games within 5 years, too, but even if you don't believe that, what is even more likely to happen is that most games will be made on OpenGL thanks to Android, iOS, (supposedly) PS4, and even Steam boxes. That in turn should make it a lot easier to support games on Linux in general, and in turn it might help the market share of Linux on the desktop, too.

b0rsuk 14y ago
I don't think many of existing games will be ported, but B-class (with medium budgets) games are coming to Linux in a big way. Wasteland 2, Eternity, Godus, Castle Story, Planetary Annihilation, War for the Overworld, Double Fine, Maia... "Indie" usually means a budget of around $100000, and smallest of these are multiples of that. Plus, almost all humble indie bundles fully support Linux. I think the outcome is clear: some of these games will make a lot of money. Big publishers and devs will want a cut of the pie.

armored_mammal 14y ago

Here's one Linux user who'd love to see Civ for Linux.