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Ruscour
5233 Posts
On June 29 2012 23:12 ZenithM wrote: There is so little to gain for Blizzard from porting on UNIX systems compared to the amount of work involved. Won't happen. All of Blizzard's main titles have native UNIX clients...what on earth do you think OSX is? Is there really that much of a Mac gaming market to cater to compared to the amount of work involved?  | ||
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
On June 29 2012 23:43 Alexj wrote: Every. Fucking. Time. Here, take a look at that: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/48Q7u.png) Source: http://www.humblebundle.com/ Well, gotta save up to buy some more Windows. Linux users have plenty o' money to use on other things. :p On June 29 2012 23:47 Ruscour wrote: All of Blizzard's main titles have native UNIX clients...what on earth do you think OSX is? Is there really that much of a Mac gaming market to cater to compared to the amount of work involved? I thought that OSX is more like POSIX-compliant rather than UNIX based. But well anyway, there are like 10 times more Mac users than Linux users. Edit: Fun fact: they would probably implement an iOS version sooner than a Linux version ;D | ||
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kldfg
Germany59 Posts
On June 29 2012 18:04 CrtBalorda wrote: Linux people woudnt necessarly buy the game would they? I'd actually buy a separate linux-launcher on top of the game if it meant I didn't have to re-boot my machine to windows every time I want to play SC2. | ||
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
 I've Ubuntu 12.04 and W7 dual boot and the only reason I boot W7 is either to play or to code Windows-specific programs. | ||
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nayc
Germany42 Posts
On June 29 2012 18:04 CrtBalorda wrote: Linux people woudnt necessarly buy the game would they? yeah, because "Linux people" can play without activating sc2 on their bnet account. oh wait | ||
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ProbeEtPylon
168 Posts
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CapnAmerica
United States508 Posts
On June 29 2012 23:55 nayc wrote: yeah, because "Linux people" can play without activating sc2 on their bnet account. oh wait Pretty sure he's just saying that there aren't enough Linux users for this to be even remotely worth Blizzard's time spent paying employees. They'd probably lose money doing a Linux-based SC2 release. | ||
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
actually linux is linux, neither for "not for gaming" nor "for gaming" (same with windows) as for Mac/OSX: it's a heaaaaaaaavily modded *BSD also BSD != Linux On June 30 2012 01:36 CapnAmerica wrote: Pretty sure he's just saying that there aren't enough Linux users for this to be even remotely worth Blizzard's time spent paying employees. They'd probably lose money doing a Linux-based SC2 release. actually what he's implying is that linux based users apparently because they don't want to pay for an OS, wouldn't pay for _______ other software | ||
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SilSol
Sweden2744 Posts
On June 30 2012 00:03 ProbeEtPylon wrote: I use Windows for gaming and working and Linux for watching porn (kinda afraid of viruses). Therefore, I see no reason why they should port SC2 to Linux. More People using Linux means more potential viruses on my harddisk. LOL at least ur telling the truth LOL "linux for porn" HAHA ;] | ||
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TheCzarOfAll
United States170 Posts
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buckKeefe
United States63 Posts
(PS i play on really low settings because i find it easier to see what's going on, if you care about like HDR bloom and shit then wine is probably not for you, i'd get <30FPS on ultra settings i think -- nvidia just doesn't care that much about their linux drivers i guess?) | ||
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winthrop
Hong Kong956 Posts
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Aim Here
Scotland672 Posts
On June 30 2012 03:02 buckKeefe wrote: (PS i play on really low settings because i find it easier to see what's going on, if you care about like HDR bloom and shit then wine is probably not for you, i'd get <30FPS on ultra settings i think -- nvidia just doesn't care that much about their linux drivers i guess?) The framerate issue relates to a bug, probably in wine, where the GPU and CPU aren't being set to their maximum performance to cope with the fact that a big resource-hungry game like Starcraft 2 is running. It's not an Nvidia issue (it happens to the CPU and ATI cards too). I get a framerate boost by fiddling with cpufreq-set before running Starcraft (and switching it back afterwards), and if I could do something similar to my graphics card I would. This is the relevant wine bug, if you have gosu C coding skills, know your way around the Windows API and want to fix it and make Linux/Starcraft nerds happy. | ||
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SinCitta
Germany2127 Posts
Wouldn't take much effort by Blizzard to make a Linux port, I think. They have an OpenGL renderer for the mac version. And the rest shouldn't be much work. It's just that they don't want to provide support for Linux (Troubleshooting etc.). I think in WoW Linux/WINE is tolerated (by making Warden aware of that) and that's about it what one can expect. | ||
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
On June 30 2012 00:03 ProbeEtPylon wrote: I use Windows for gaming and working and Linux for watching porn (kinda afraid of viruses). Therefore, I see no reason why they should port SC2 to Linux. More People using Linux means more potential viruses on my harddisk. just because *you* just use linux for watching porn doesn't mean that other people do, you know. | ||
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buckKeefe
United States63 Posts
On June 30 2012 03:26 Aim Here wrote: The framerate issue relates to a bug, probably in wine, where the GPU and CPU aren't being set to their maximum performance to cope with the fact that a big resource-hungry game like Starcraft 2 is running. It's not an Nvidia issue (it happens to the CPU and ATI cards too). I get a framerate boost by fiddling with cpufreq-set before running Starcraft (and switching it back afterwards), and if I could do something similar to my graphics card I would. This is the relevant wine bug, if you have gosu C coding skills, know your way around the Windows API and want to fix it and make Linux/Starcraft nerds happy. Great info, thank you. That bug seems beyond the scope of my programming skills but I'm gonna try some of the cpufreq workarounds :D | ||
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Amridell
188 Posts
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FlukyS
Ireland485 Posts
On June 30 2012 06:52 Amridell wrote: So, fellow TL forum goers, what's our conclusion? Do we want a Linux port? Or should we be kicked back to our boot screen to boot Windows? Kind of a silly question of course we want one but 100% we know blizzard isn't going to make one in the near future. I would volunteer my work for it (im a software developer who specializes in Linux) but im sure they wouldn't accept that either :D | ||
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billy5000
United States865 Posts
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
Game developers won't make games for Linux when there's such a low market for it, but gamers won't switch to (or even maybe dual boot for some) Linux because there's not too many games for it that run without significant bugs. On June 30 2012 09:17 billy5000 wrote: I'm actually surprised a game developing company would even bother to make their games compatible with OS X. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most people who own macs own laptops. That, plus the fact that most Mac users are computer noobs, and I don't think most computer noobs tend to play much computer games. On June 30 2012 03:15 winthrop wrote: starcraft 2 is a GUI game, how can linux user like it WTF are you talking about? | ||
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