Guild Wars 2

I get the windows client, microsoft marketing has earned itself the lion’s share of the personal computer market. I get the mac client, apple computers cost way too much money to not be able to play games on it, and before you say it I know linux has such a tiny share of the market. well if developers would make their software support the linux platform too, more people will start using linux, instead of paying for a proprietary os that has a questionable privacy and security policy. and wine is not the answer, it takes probably at least 3 times as long to download updates cause of the constant crash and restarts. from a programming point of view linux development shouldn’t be that far of a stretch from mac development.

Anet do not even really support the Mac beta client (just cider wrapper) for 3 year. It worse now than ever with no news on fix. Just after about a year or more with no response from Anet yesterday someone red post say generic they know about problem and wait for fix. They say that for 3 year now. So I would not hope for a Linux client any time soon.

Sadeak.8410:

[…] I know linux has such a tiny share of the market. well if developers would make their software support the linux platform too, more people will start using linux […]

Thing is, most developers don’t have a financial stake in the spread of Linux. If anything, it seems like that could only hurt them financially, because they’d have to develop for three platforms instead of two. (Even with two, the PC version is still the primary one.)

It’s nice for the Linux community that more developers are thinking about it, but unless you’re working on an indie game, or you want to work on Steam OS / Steam Machines, it’s hard to see the financial argument for it.

Sell more games,
reduce support costs.

two very good financial arguments.

Honestly, as much as I’d love to see more games on my Linux machine, if it’s going to be a Cider port like the Mac version I’d rather play on my Windows 10 gaming PC.

anet could host the actual game files in a compressed format for download outside of the launcher and moving into the right directory. problem solved. not just for linux, but for anybody on any platform that keeps crashing every 4 MB of updating through the launcher