Guild Wars 2

ChillyChinaman.6057:

I’m sorry but, whine whine, if you were a real ranger you’d do one of two things.

1) Suck it up and deal with it since we’ve been having this since beta
or
2) Learn and adapt. Trapper weren’t discovered until recently even though they haven’t been touched since beta.

or
3) Continue to show where we need buffs to AN here on the forums, even though you have lost your hopes and keep playing your Rangers trying to learn and adapt with the little we have, but make sure to not give a dime to AN until we’re fixed.

Wick.1280:

I skipped alot of post in this thread due too them looking like someone clubbing a penguin again. Anyway, I know GW2 will run fine on PlayOnLinux without the lag that Wine has.

Have you tried it? Right now, even if you tweak the hell out of your GW2 installation via PoL you won’t get decent frame rates, unless you have a extremely good processor.

evolverzilla.2359:

@Mehwhatever
I know opengl TODAY is much more complete than 10-20 years ago, but in computer time 10 years is like eons, and people jut create a huge directx base. So opengl will need more time to change minds. Maybe Valve change this showing the benefits of open source software, working togheter with proprietary developers but it will take time.

And about Loki.

Try piracy on a 90% market and try piracy on a 10% market. It will be a huge money difference.

Let´s see. Let´s imagine 1 million user. 90% windows, 10% linux (like Loki´s time). And let´s imagine a 50% piracy. On the first case we will have 450.000 paying customers. If they buy a 60 bucks game they will gain 27 million dollars. It´s a lot of money to pay for development process… Now to linux. 50.000 paying customers for a 60 dollar game. 3 million dollar. Well, it´s a lot of money but i don´t know if this will pay all trouble for distribution, production, rights, etc…

So Loki went bankrupt for piracy, there aren´t enough buying customers to pay the development costs. And even most linux users will never buy a proprietary software (even without piracy).

I´m not comparing linux piracy with windows piracy, both are bad and both have a lot of users. But linux piracy is more harmful than windows piracy.

Expanding… For an MMO game like GW2, piracy is not a problem, if you don´t pay you don´t play. But for most developers piracy is a big cut on their “game”.

So, you made a bunch of numbers up and got to the conclusion that Loki went bankrupt because of piracy practiced by Linux users?

It’s sad to see that the image people get from Linux is the one spread by the zealots vocal minority. The good thing is that things like Humble Indie Bundle and hopefully Steam will show how we are willing to pay for games as much or even more than Windows/OSX users.

Take notes ArenaNet, take notes…
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/

MehWhatever.1248:

I really don’t like this nearly religious attitude. Boycotts don’t work in the real world, you know. And you just make yourself look like a whiny little kitten (<< intended).

If every Linux user stops paying for ArenaNet cash shop items, maybe it can work :P.

And I really don’t see a problem in not wanting to boot into another OS (if you already have it, if you don’t, then you’ll also have to buy it) only to play a game.

For example, I hate when my friends want to use Raidcall instead of TeamSpeak, or even Skype, to play Awesomenauts (which run awesomely under Wine with its OpenGL mode), because it doesn’t always work under wine and I have to boot into Windows just to use it. I do all my work in Linux and I am also thinking about uninstalling windows from my machine.

Has anyone tested the latest Wine update or Crossover 12? I asked the guy of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvBqyYBTKc

if it was using all the cores from the processor, and he said that, CrossOver and PlayOnLinux used all of his 6 cores (which is strange, since GW2 uses only 4 cores, maybe the other two were being used by another program).

I’m sorry for the terms I used, I was a little annoyed with the lack of response (even if it was to refuse what we were asking) from the devs of my favorite mmorpg.

@MehWhatever.1248 Did they confirm it will be linux-based? I think they only confirmed that they’re making the SteamBox.

Almost 500 signatures and no response from ArenaNet, even to say “No”. Seems like they don’t give a rat’s a**.

http://www.change.org/petitions/arenanet-inc-consider-development-alongside-the-wine-project-3

Common guys, only 95 signatures? Let’s spread the word to other GW2 Linux players so they can sign it: http://www.change.org/petitions/arenanet-inc-consider-development-alongside-the-wine-project-3

I don’t know how effective that’d be, but is better than nothing.