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> There are no AAA titles available on Linux. Other than the Valve games Linux will soon get Metro: Last Light and Football Manager 2014. Almost no AAA games s

• adwf 13y ago
  Not to mention that AAA games take 2-3 years to produce, whereas Steam Linux has been out for only 6 months. There's a lot of inertia to overcome.
  • ekianjo 13y ago
    Exactly. You cannot expect AAA games to come anytime soon on Linux.
    • YokoZar 13y ago
      AAA games can be ported from Windows to Linux in a matter of days if they already work well in Wine. When they don't, extending Wine to make them work is vastly cheaper than you probably think.
      • Sprint 13y ago
        Running in Wine is not porting. It is using a intermediate layer. Porting means native code.
        • YokoZar 13y ago
          Wine absolutely can be a porting tool; Codeweavers offers porting services using this exact technology: http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ From a technical standpoint, Wine is extended to make the game work, that version of Wine is bundled with the application, and a script is included to run it without further user involvement. I don't get why people still insist this sort of port somehow doesn't count. If it runs at full speed, shows up as a "Linux game" under Steam, and the user literally can't tell the difference, what does it matter?
          • ekianjo 13y ago
            Limbo did that and its performance was awful. No thank you.
        • dllthomas 13y ago
          Why does it matter if that compatibility layer sits in a system-wide library or in application code (as anyone would add if writing a program to target multiple kinds of system)? Wine is not an emulator, it's a free re-implementation of the windows API that runs on Linux.
      • ekianjo 13y ago
        Using WINE is not porting, it does not run natively, and this is not what Valve recommends to do.
        • sergiosgc 13y ago
          It does run natively. You don't think it runs in an emulator, do you?
          • ekianjo 13y ago
            You lose a lot of raw performance with wine. Left 4dead ran on wine at probably half the framerate of the windows version. No thank you.
• ekianjo 13y ago
  Let's not forget Wargame: European Escalation, which is far from being an indie game. Probably close to a AAA category.
  • jeltz 13y ago
    Serious Sam 3 is another game which is not exactly AAA but very close to it.
• TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago
  I would say the Wargame franchise also counts as AAA. Other than that, you are correct :)