Guild Wars 2

Reciprocity.8021:

Oh and by the way Ubuntu is dying…

lol … and if we ask you.. your info will come probably from distrowatch ot other similar sites, and with that sentence you probably don’t know how those sites get their stats, i not going to enter in this debate although is really curious the way is Valve suporting a Linux distro who is going down, anyway, some fresh news here for Linux people:

Logitech Begins Supporting Linux Users
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM3NDk

As a curious note Logitech has never supported officially Linux OS, so definitely something is moving on video games towards Linux.

Have a nice day…

Re-activating this thread…

Massive Improvements in New Linux Nvidia Driver once more, you can check them here:
Linux Display Driver

I don’t understand why you people are arguing over which API is better as it really isn’t realavent to whats being asked here.

I don’t understand it either…i want a Linux native client…

…there was a Phoronix article about Blizzard bringing a game to Linux..

The news is in this link >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI2ODE << and it is a rumor, but a rumor by Michael Larabel. Michael Larabel is the same one who brought us information about Valve and the Steam client into Linux…
P.D. The external link not bring out the new!, very rare, use copy and paste instead…

eddiecapp.1076:

Well… did ANet say something about a Linux client until now?

Yes, they said NO. You can check it in the following link:
NO GW2 for Linux

It’s a pity, the only reason i’m still running Windows is there is no a good quality MMO for Linux, fortunately things are changing, for all you Linux gamers, a new MMO is been developing right now with good graphics and native Linux support, so if you are an MMO gamer like me, soon you will have the possibility to leave Windows SO forever if you like. I had preferred to leave Windows with GW2, i like it, but it seems there will be no port for it. One tip for Anet: Today there is no a competitive market in MMOs in Linux, a port to a linux client could mean to pick a lot of new users, probably more than with the Mac port but, things are changing, other MMOs (at least one) are coming to pick up that market.
…excuse my English again…

Alent.4780:

Yes please! I am excited about next year – can’t wait for Steam to be Linux native!

You don’t need to wait for it… Valve have opened the Steam Linux Beta Client for everyone. There are several posts in the web talking about that.
For instance see the following link:

Christmas Present for Linux Gamers From Valve

You can get more info through google.
;)

…showing support for a native client to Linux OS…
My reasons are currently exposed here under this thread so i only want to add a few links and comments to reinforce the idea…
.- To many distributions out there…
– It’s true, but the client could be developed to only one of them, i suggest Ubuntu for similar reasons to the ones exposed by Valve in the following link…
Valve
.- Worries about perfomance…
– Don’t worry, native client will run OpenGL and this one is currently better than Directx, see following link…
Faster Zombies!
.- Worries about graphic cards and support…
– Don’t worry again, things are moving towards linux world, graphic cards manufactures , AMD (ATI), Intel and Nvidia are working with Valve to make a better support for games, the following link shows a recent new from Nvidia supporting linux…
NVIDIA … to Linux Gaming
.- A lot of games are currently landing in Linux, so i believe people are seeing a marked there, in Valve today (12/Dec/2012) for instance there are a few games already supported, you can check them here:
Steam for Linux
.- There are more games besides Valve ones, but too many links to show all them here…

My opinion: In Linux, there are no good quality MMO, so just now, could be a good move to port the game over there because you probably get the all the linux mmo market, in next future, could be more difficult, currently a new high quality MMO is been developed rigth now and have linux native client supported, i will no put the link here, but the info is out here

Excuse my English….