Guild Wars 2

As title says, is there any chance that soon or later there will be some kind of support for linux players?
Actually running gw2 on wine is simply not a viable option on many systems (mainly due to the massive fps loss, i have a quite nice machine and i run between 3 and 8 fps on wine..).
Other mmorpgs gave us linux gamers some kind of help (for example blizzard’s wow had the option to run using opengl which makes it very easy to run smoothly with wine, mine had a better fps on ubuntu than on windows), it would be lovely to be able to play our favorite game on our favorite operating system, wouldn’t it?

Now i’m not really into this but shouldn’t be simple to adapt the mac client? Since even mac os runs a unix kernel that should be doable..

Well, let’s see what people thinks about this..

IIRC it was said there won’t be a Linux client but don’t quote me on that.

Anyways I don’t think there’ll be one any time soon.

I recall a dev response in the reddit Q&A, where they said they would not be doing a linux client. However, they make some effort to try and make it work on Wine, sometimes fixing things specifically so that it works on Wine.

That’s probably the best you’re going to get m’fraid. Unless linux magically experiences some huge surge in popularity in the next year or two.

It seems like making a game that doesn’t run in linux doesn’t actually cost you very many customers. Too many linux users have dual-boot option already.

Since there’s a Mac client, the game should already be able to run in OpenGL mode. Is there really not a switch for the Windows client?

Klarick.1682:

lol people still use Linux? Really?

I thought that mess of code got buried years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption

It’s probably the most popular OS in the world. Sadly, it hasn’t made much headway on the desktop. I blame that largely on game companies not supporting it, Microsoft not making their APIs cross-platform (e.g. Direct X), and the mess that is X11.

Kwami.4356:

Klarick.1682:

lol people still use Linux? Really?

I thought that mess of code got buried years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption

It’s probably the most popular OS in the world. Sadly, it hasn’t made much headway on the desktop. I blame that largely on game companies not supporting it, Microsoft not making their APIs cross-platform (e.g. Direct X), and the mess that is X11.

Absolutely no way my friend. Business doesn’t use it, gamers don’t use it. It is more correct to say that Linux is a fringe operating system that has been struggling since its conception many years ago. Mac has more users than Linux, and Mac only has a very very small percentage of the computer industry.

Linux the most popular? Not by a long shot. It is not even relevant in the world of computing.

Klarick.1682:

Kwami.4356:

Klarick.1682:

lol people still use Linux? Really?

I thought that mess of code got buried years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption

It’s probably the most popular OS in the world. Sadly, it hasn’t made much headway on the desktop. I blame that largely on game companies not supporting it, Microsoft not making their APIs cross-platform (e.g. Direct X), and the mess that is X11.

Absolutely no way my friend. Business doesn’t use it, gamers don’t use it. It is more correct to say that Linux is a fringe operating system that has been struggling since its conception many years ago. Mac has more users than Linux, and Mac only has a very very small percentage of the computer industry.

Linux the most popular? Not by a long shot. It is not even relevant in the world of computing.

Do you realize that MacOS is POSIX compliant, and includes many technologies that were originally developed for use with Linux, such as X.Org Server, the basis for it’s GUI.

The Guild Wars 2 mac client is essentially the windows binaries and assets packaged with a compatibility layer like Wine. The GW2 client runs almost perfectly on wine in Ubuntu Linux.

Also, have you heard of this little mobile OS called Android? It is 100% linux, and I hear it’s pretty popular these days.

Almost every supercomputer in the world runs Linux. How is that not relevant in the world of computing?