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#9018: Partner with Electronic Arts for native ports of their games.
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Written by jmxz the 24 May 08 at 00:39.
Category: Gaming.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
The only thing most of my friends want Windows for anymore are a few games.
I think Canonical and the Ubuntu community should work closely with leading game publishers to get them to release native Ubuntu ports of their games.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 24 May 08 at 00:52
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Electronic Arts make crap games.
Hail iD Software, Valve and Epic Megagames! :)
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neon wrote on the 24 May 08 at 01:43
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yarly. I say partner with Valve if anyone.
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XVIIarcano wrote on the 24 May 08 at 09:31
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Actually the almost complete lack of any commercial-grade games would suggest not to be too queasy... partner with any of the above and anyone else is interested in a growing market with a lot of potential and lots of zero-cost workforce :P
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fragro wrote on the 24 May 08 at 12:28
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CNC3 for Linux! YAY!
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fragro wrote on the 24 May 08 at 12:28
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CNC3 for Linux! YAY!
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jsereno wrote on the 24 May 08 at 12:54
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It's not so much that Canonical need to partner with any particular games manufacturer, it's that the Linux world (and Mac world for that matter) need to encourage the gaming community not to develop purely for DirectX, (or for DirectX at all) and use OpenGL instead which is available on all platforms.
Valve's Source Engine is that much closer to Linux now since they did a modified OpenGL version for the PlayStation 3 (with the release of the Orange Box), and Valve's recent hiring of Linux developers suggests something could be on the horizon by next year.
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fusiondog wrote on the 24 May 08 at 13:26
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With the way things are going on linux, games are about the only reason some people haven't ditched windows yet. Get the games and the users follow..
If you build them, they will come..
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fusiondog wrote on the 24 May 08 at 14:53
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Anybody remember Loki games? They made linux ports of games, I bought a few.
Then they went out of business :(
Tribes was fun on linux, if you're l33t you can run the games off the raw xinit, skip the window manager and get 30+ FPS. And that was on old hardware..
On the other hand I've been more productive on my PC since they went under ;)
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Ssdg wrote on the 24 May 08 at 15:07
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I don't think canonical could do this, but I suggest you to organise a "write them to recognize us" event, for exemple even if I'm a GPL fan, I'd like to see an initiative like "write blizzard to code StarcraftII for linux too" and I swear I'd pay the trans-Atlantic mail transport.
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Remco wrote on the 24 May 08 at 21:50
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EA actually already ports their games to OSX, using Transgaming's Cider. Maybe they could call Codeweavers to use their Crossover Games for a port to Linux.
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lordtoran wrote on the 24 May 08 at 22:55
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Linux/Mac won't be gaming platforms until the game developers abandon their love affair with Windows/XBox-only DirectX. Everything else, including consoles, runs on OpenGl. But these developers rather like to complain about how difficult and expensive cross-platform ports are instead of using SDL and platform neutral C++, which would make a port a matter of simply recompiling.
That's a virtually unsolvable situation, because proprietary DirectX is heavily entrenched in the Windows developer community, and solutions like Cider and Crossover are more like a bandaid solution without a guarantee of delivering a functional result.
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