Guild Wars 2

I’m in a situation where I use Linux daily/nightly on both personal and business.

Some of the games like Team Fortress 2, Dota 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Garry’s Mod, Faster Than Light, Oil Rush ( and more but I don’t play others at the moment ) are on Linux natively and would like to see Guild Wars 2 as well on this platform natively… I keep saying “natively” because using “wine” is tacky… although during the transition… not entirely ( I’ll explain later )

Just rewrite your rendering engine to support both Direct3D and OpenGL and the rest should be fairly easy…

Do what Valve did… put OpenGL support in your Windows binary so people can play it on Linux using wine and then over time… transition across to Linux…

Valve, Blizzard Entertainment ( announcement only ), Crytek ( rumored looking for Linux engineers ), Frozenbyte and more are all supporting or looking to support Linux

I would recommend you support Linux as it’s a platform that is growing in usage regardless of whether it’s in the commercial field ( like Ubuntu ) or not ( like Arch Linux, Gentoo, Mint, Fedora, Manjaro and more )

Not supporting OpenGL is actually less profitable… besides the Microsoft Windows series and Xbox series… Direct3D is no where… OpenGL or OpenGL ES is all over…

This is NOT a question asking “Are you going to support Linux natively?” or “Do you have plans to support Linux natively?”

This is a message saying “I would recommend you support Linux natively”

Thank You