dirdival

dirdival

I would really like to know, what IT is and where is it going? Not so young Polish developer writes about his reflections and fears.

games on Linux

2 minute read

The funny thing is that, even when you are an adult, from time to time you have a mood to play computer games. That’s the fact. From obvious reason you don’t have as much time as before when you was a teenager. If it’s not a way to avoid problems/forget about real life then fine, you can play.

I suppose that programmers have a little easier then non technical people. We continually work with computer, mostly our set is quite new and is able to start even new AAA games. There is a lot of good and free stuff in each Linux distribution. Great, I really appreciate it, I’ve played many, many times on Linux: Cube 2 (then call Sauerbraten), Teeworlds, foobilard, SuperTux and dozens more.

But, sporadically you wish to play something different, something new. Perhaps you’ve seen a trailer of a new game, or you had a small chit-chat about games. Then you decided to buy it but there is a small problem – big companies really rarely release new games with Linux platform support.

To be honest, many good things happened during last years with Linux support for games, but we are still on the beginning of a journey. In last month according to Steam we had a 0.28% of market share. Yes, I agree, we are talking here about a tiny part of game market. I can’t imagine that some CEO after that report may say: We can gain 0,28% much more money,if we start releasing software for Linux platform, let’s do it! It doesn’t work in this way. Many Linux users, mostly on Steam visit community hub of a game and leave similar comments: When Linux platform support will be present? You missed something - Linux platform support,, etc. I’m thankful them, even if many times others call them trolls. Does any game publisher read and care that comments? I don’t think so.

Many years ago I decided to use only Linux as an operating system. Then I also decided to play only on it, without any exceptions. It’s kind of a crusade. I know how hard it is, but I think that it’s the only one way to show that we exist. If you buy games for other platforms then we lose. I can imagine a community of Linux users work together month by month. They make a survey, they chose some game and they buy it – each of them. It might be even 1000 people. Is it feasible or just a dream?

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