Planetside 2 for Linux

[sylphaen]

While it can be argued that people with Linux use Windows for gaming, having Planetside 2 compatible with Linux could be a winner: PS2 could become right away the standard classic for Linux !

Especially since we're talking about a F2P game...

So yes... I was wondering if any thought was given to it. Anyone who knows or could pull out that info from the devs ?
:D

[Sirisian]

PS2 is DirectX. The devs confirmed this already so MS only. They also said no mac support was planned. (It was also hinted by Higby that no console support for the current generation of consoles was in the works).

[sylphaen]

Thanks for the info Sirisian !

Linux players are not a huge public anyways but it could have been interesting for PR purposes.

[Zulthus]

People use Linux?

[Bags]

If it's not profitable to make them for OSX... yeah.

[SKYeXile]

yea wtf, who uses linux?

[Bruttal]

For gaming no one uses linux (I mean not seriosuly anyways) most linux users duel boot with a Windows

.... NOT TO SAY THAT I DONT THINK MORE GAMES SHOULD SUPPORT LINUX!

[Hamma]

I don't see a day in age where games support Linux out of the box, very few do even now. If anything, more games will be compatible with OS X then ported to Linux by h4x0rz.

[Quovatis]

Games that depend on player-run servers do benefit by supporting Linux, but since PS2 won't have player servers, there is not much point making a linux version.

[NapalmEnima]

An OpenGL port of the client would make several platforms more available, including Mac, Linux and potentially a PlayStation console.

Whether there's enough directly shared code to make porting the rest of the client reasonable remains to be seen...

...or does it? They're not supporting Linux or Mac, so they clearly believe it isn't worth the time and effort required to do so. I suspect there's enough Mac/Linux users within SOE that the question is brought up fairly regularly. The answer just happens to be "no".

[Atuday]

If you want linux to run direct x programs the I suggest you do like the rest of the linux gamers and have some WINE

[Firefly]

LOLOLOLOLINUX.

We should demand that Planetside be ported to the 3DO. Anyone remember that console?

I still have mine.

[FIREk]

Linux folk should just stick to playing their console games. Get it?

But seriously, who uses Linux? It's great for professional applications, but other than that there is no logical reason not to use Windows.

And there is, unfortunately, no PR value in making a Linux version of anything. A couple of gaming sites would make a random news article each, which hardly anyone will notice, three people will read and no one will remember... And of course all five "Linux gaming" websites will be ecstatic, and so will their 50 readers. ;)

[waldizzo]

I am a Linux admin in my profession and use Linux every day.




A linux port of this game would be a waste of time and resources.

[Higby]

Install Wine and GOOD LUCK!

[waldizzo]

Half the fun of gaming is getting it to work in wine!

[Dorest0rm]

Half the fun of gaming is getting it to work in wine!
Half the fun of Linux is getting it to work.

And I'm not talking about Ubuntu. Ubuntu is easy mode.

[waldizzo]

Half the fun of Linux is getting it to work.

And that's why I do the linux for a living. :evil:

[sylphaen]

:D
Well, they did think about a much larger non-PC market !
:thumbsup:

I installed Linux on my computer this week-end to try (Ubuntu - fairly easy) and it's kind of fun to use. Command lines and the like... WeeeEeeEeeeh !
:D

They have those packaged programs that you can download like in Steam. I thought about how cool it would be to see PS2 there, click "get it" and have awesomeness installed on-demand !

Bias towards Linux was definitely limited thinking but I think I just realized the power of the "Click&Play" F2P concept.
:lol:

PS2 available everywhere ! Just download and play ! Of course, I assume no installation fee but this is "Wow!" when you think about it. PR-wise, it looks incredible. Don't need to read a full-gaming article ! Just click that game and get your mind blown !!!
:groovy:

If they make it work as well as I hope they will, PS2 will be so easy to advertise and share that it can only be a huge success !

And if it comes standard on PS4 along with PC, wow ! (for the number of players mostly; i don't like how they might need to cut gameplay to accomodate console players unless the PS4 comes standard with keyboard and mouse)

[Crator]

PS2 available everywhere ! Just download and play ! Of course, I assume no installation fee but this is "Wow!" when you think about it. PR-wise, it looks incredible. Don't need to read a full-gaming article ! Just click that game and get your mind blown !!!
:groovy:

If they make it work as well as I hope they will, PS2 will be so easy to advertise and share that it can only be a huge success !

Exactly!

[Infektion]

Ey Ey Ey!

I don't appreciates most of the anti Linux speak, I love my slack. That being said... The Linux community is just a bad market to spend resources on. Like myself and 99% of Linux users, it's a work environment and/or enthusiast OS modding :-D



Install Wine and GOOD LUCK!

lol qft

[Osburn]

Writing on the official Google+ PlanetSide 2 page a developer by the name of ’blaze’ responded to a query about Linux with this:

If there’s enough of a desire for it, who knows? It’s not something we’re currently focusing on, but be sure to let us know if that would be something you’d be interested in and we’ll take it into consideration!

Diplomatic Response:

Chances are that this is nothing more than a diplomatic response. An enthusiastic but non-committal ‘maybe’ curries more favour with people than a cold rigid ‘no’.

Which, funnily enough, is precisely what the President of Sony Online Entertainment gave Linux users back in August.

Answering the question of a Linux port via a Reddit ‘Ask me Anything’ session, SOE’s John Smedley said:

‘[Users] aren’t going to see PlanetSide 2 on Linux [but] will see it on Mac.’

In the same session Smedley also reaffirmed his position on Windows 8, saying that he ‘absolutely strongly‘ believes that the OS won’t be a good thing for PC gamers.

Original posted by:
Google+ via Robert Brown

[Mutant]

well since the steambox seems to be using Linux the demand may well come.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/08/newell-valves-own-steam-box-will-use-linux/

[AThreatToYou]

Don't even get me started on steam box. That thing will not have the hardware required to play PS2.

[sneeek]

Speaking as a developer who writes code for Linux and Windows, the problems that prevent Linux taking off as a gaming platform are:

1. No standardisation between distributions and very little emphasis on forwards or backwards compatibility, meaning that it's a quite a headache for developers to ensure that large, complex applications (e.g. games) work out-of-the-box on most Linux distributions.

The Linux scene, and the open source scene in general, consists of a bunch egos who compete with each other and can rarely agree on a single, best way to do something - which is why there are dozens of Linux distributions each with a different philosophy. In some ways this diversity is a strength, but when you're trying to make a living from software, it's a pain in the balls.

2. The graphics subsystem, particularly for 3D acceleration, is still a mess and in a state of flux. Progress on the most promising project, Gallium3D, is very slow and so far the drivers have a mere fraction of the performance of Windows drivers with the equivalent functionality.

That said, Gallium3D potentially will allow OpenGL, DirectX 9, 10, 11 etc. to all be supported, so when (if ever?) that comes to fruition, Linux should actually become attractive from a technical point of view.

NVidia and AMD offer decent closed-source drivers that exceed the performance of Windows in some games, but they are disliked by purists and even then don't work for everybody without several hours of googling for solutions.

3. Publishers may be afraid that with Linux being open source and therefore hackable, it will be impossible to prevent piracy. For the same reason, creating certain kinds of hacks for the purpose of cheating should theoretically be easier than in Windows.

4. It's a small market, which means that it's not economically worthwhile to pursue given the above difficulties.