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"My take is the devs doing these ports just aren't doing their best to optimize these releases for Linux and/or OpenGL." Pretty much. Platforms with 1% of a us

"My take is the devs doing these ports just aren't doing their best to optimize these releases for Linux and/or OpenGL." Pretty much. Platforms with 1% of a user base don't get priority over one with 90%. Especially when a significant number of those 1% users also have access to the 90% platform. Linux is only remotely worth it if you're a small indie and want to get into humble bundle. Aside from that there is no financial incentive to support Linux. Lots of devs jumped on the linux train due to the promise of SteamOS but those efforts appear to have been largely wasted.

ekianjo 12y ago
> Lots of devs jumped on the linux train due to the promise of SteamOS but those efforts appear to have been largely wasted. wasted? It's funny how efforts can be wasted when the actual OS you refer to is not even released yet (still in beta). Ler's see once it comes out.
- forrestthewoods 12y ago
  Oh they're totally wasted. And the longer it takes the OS to come out, assuming it ever does and I'm doubtful it will, the more effort is wasted. There are games coming out today that had Linux support added just because of the hope of SteamOS. That effort is totally wasted. And it's wasted even if SteamOS comes out and is wildly successful in a couple of years.
  - matthewmacleod 12y ago
    That… makes no sense whatsoever? The first public release of SteamOS was less than a year ago. It was announced only shortly before that. It seems highly unlikely that there have been many games which have had Linux support added due to SteamOS in that timeframe.
    - tormeh 12y ago
      Some games have, and remember that purchases of legacy games are negligible to publishers. I think 90% of sales are in the first two weeks or some similar extreme statistic.
    - forrestthewoods 12y ago
      SteamOS was officially announced Sept 2013. But it was well known in the dev community that Valve was working on Linux things for at least a year longer. I know games that placed Linux bets back in 2012. Those bets were lost.
      - shawn-furyan 12y ago
        Well, when you make bets based on conjecture, you lose bets. It's a practice more commonly known as speculating. I don't see how that particular scenario is the fault of anyone besides the people who bet on being able to capitalize on an unannounced platform.
        forrestthewoods 12y ago
        Sure. Of course. Devs knew a risk, rolled the dice, and lost. No one is saying that's unfair. No one is even complaining. That doesn't change the fact that spending time on Linux has thus far proven to be wasted effort and, in most if not all cases, a net loss.

ekianjo 12y ago

> Lots of devs jumped on the linux train due to the promise of SteamOS but those efforts appear to have been largely wasted. wasted? It's funny how efforts can be wasted when the actual OS you refer to is not even released yet (still in beta). Ler's see once it comes out.

forrestthewoods 12y ago
Oh they're totally wasted. And the longer it takes the OS to come out, assuming it ever does and I'm doubtful it will, the more effort is wasted. There are games coming out today that had Linux support added just because of the hope of SteamOS. That effort is totally wasted. And it's wasted even if SteamOS comes out and is wildly successful in a couple of years.
- matthewmacleod 12y ago
  That… makes no sense whatsoever? The first public release of SteamOS was less than a year ago. It was announced only shortly before that. It seems highly unlikely that there have been many games which have had Linux support added due to SteamOS in that timeframe.
  - tormeh 12y ago
    Some games have, and remember that purchases of legacy games are negligible to publishers. I think 90% of sales are in the first two weeks or some similar extreme statistic.
  - forrestthewoods 12y ago
    SteamOS was officially announced Sept 2013. But it was well known in the dev community that Valve was working on Linux things for at least a year longer. I know games that placed Linux bets back in 2012. Those bets were lost.
    - shawn-furyan 12y ago
      Well, when you make bets based on conjecture, you lose bets. It's a practice more commonly known as speculating. I don't see how that particular scenario is the fault of anyone besides the people who bet on being able to capitalize on an unannounced platform.
      - forrestthewoods 12y ago
        Sure. Of course. Devs knew a risk, rolled the dice, and lost. No one is saying that's unfair. No one is even complaining. That doesn't change the fact that spending time on Linux has thus far proven to be wasted effort and, in most if not all cases, a net loss.