Guild Wars 2

Now that ArenaNet has announced that they will be making a Mac OS X client of Guild wars 2 do you guys think we might see a Linux client down the road? Assuming that ANet will code the graphics of GW2 for OpenGL to better support the Mac, the threshold of porting the client to Linux becomes smaller since the OpenGL code, as I understand it, is universal across different operating systems (with some different libraries here and there but the system calls are similar).

I’m asking this because I have a dual boot on my computer and would love to see something as big as Guild wars 2 come on Linux. If you guys think about it, Valve did something similar, first announcing steam and source engine on Mac and now quite recently on Linux as well. I understand if this isn’t in ArenaNet’s interests at this time but one can always hope .

Let’s keep this discussion as civil as possible so please,no “That os is bad” type of discussion.

Let me know what you guys think.

Dunno on this one

We may see a Linux client at some point, but I doubt it’ll come at any time soon until the demand is high enough.

Since the Mac version appears to be using Cider, it probably wouldn’t be at all difficult to port it over to Linux as well

Something official would be pretty awesome, but in any case, it probably wouldn’t be hard to manually port the Mac client to Linux.