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I'm excited about it too but I don't think it's going to be "soon", There is basically one AAA title on Steam right now and about 20-30 indie titles (and a bunc

I'm excited about it too but I don't think it's going to be "soon", There is basically one AAA title on Steam right now and about 20-30 indie titles (and a bunch of DLC to pad out the list.) It's a great start but I think it's going to be a few more years yet before there will be enough of a library to lure away the PC gamers full time.

speeder 14y ago
Yay! I got flagged! Well, I believe soon all Valve games will run fine on Linux, since they ported the whole engine anyway. Also there are a couple of AAA games already partially or completely ported, and it is just a matter of putting them to work properly on Steam (sometimes what lacks is legal stuff). For example Doom series, and some of Unreal games. Of course, games using any of those "great engines" are easy to port too (ie: any game using idTech and family or Unreal and family).
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Sadly there is no idTech5 or UT3 engine on Linux and AFAIK there are no plans to port them.
  - speeder 14y ago
    Both have partial ports to Linux. I don't know why UT3 stopped (and if you ask icculus, he will get mad at you). idTech5 stopped because crap driver support, but now with Valve pushing ahead to fix that, I think id can resume work on Linux idTech5 if they wish to. EDIT: Actually UT3 engine DO work on Linux (and icculus that did it!) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1ODE http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1O...
nekgrim 14y ago
I hope the SteamBox will change that soon. Valve can even sponsor indie devs to make a linux port / promote the Source Engine (I remember reading the linux port has better perfs than the windows version) / do something else, like selling Half Life 3 only on SteamBox during the first month (they won't, but they can). If they manage to sell a lot of SteamBox from the beginning (with low costs, like the Nexus model for Android), they can start something. And then the big players will come. And then we'll get good linux CG drivers.

speeder 14y ago

Yay! I got flagged! Well, I believe soon all Valve games will run fine on Linux, since they ported the whole engine anyway. Also there are a couple of AAA games already partially or completely ported, and it is just a matter of putting them to work properly on Steam (sometimes what lacks is legal stuff). For example Doom series, and some of Unreal games. Of course, games using any of those "great engines" are easy to port too (ie: any game using idTech and family or Unreal and family).

jiggy2011 14y ago
Sadly there is no idTech5 or UT3 engine on Linux and AFAIK there are no plans to port them.
- speeder 14y ago
  Both have partial ports to Linux. I don't know why UT3 stopped (and if you ask icculus, he will get mad at you). idTech5 stopped because crap driver support, but now with Valve pushing ahead to fix that, I think id can resume work on Linux idTech5 if they wish to. EDIT: Actually UT3 engine DO work on Linux (and icculus that did it!) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1ODE http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1O...

nekgrim 14y ago

I hope the SteamBox will change that soon. Valve can even sponsor indie devs to make a linux port / promote the Source Engine (I remember reading the linux port has better perfs than the windows version) / do something else, like selling Half Life 3 only on SteamBox during the first month (they won't, but they can). If they manage to sell a lot of SteamBox from the beginning (with low costs, like the Nexus model for Android), they can start something. And then the big players will come. And then we'll get good linux CG drivers.