Yandros on 9/6/2009 at 12:59
No, I can see that, although again it's only Amazon guessing. By the time T4 is released in probably 2011, Vista+Win7 will likely be the dominant Windows OSes, and Win8 will be on the horizon as well. XP will no longer be the majority, at least amongst gamers and home PC users. Business is slower to adopt new platforms because of the cost and pain associated with rolling it out to hundreds/thousands of workstations.
Reliance on 9/6/2009 at 13:32
*Very sad face*
Mac OS X Snow Leopard please :cheeky:
Ordering my new pro tomorrow... 3 cheers for WWDC! Looks like I'll be bootcamping my thievery experience from now on.
SLIEZER on 9/6/2009 at 14:13
It's all just speculations. You'll see other sites, like gamefaqs, also states it being on the consoles. It's speculation, pure and simple.
New Horizon on 9/6/2009 at 15:57
No Linux? Fail.
Renault on 9/6/2009 at 16:14
I can't imagine it would be worth their while to do so. How many gamers who would actually purchase a game use Linux exclusively?
New Horizon on 9/6/2009 at 16:54
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I can't imagine it would be worth their while to do so. How many gamers who would actually purchase a game use Linux exclusively?
lol You don't have to package the game to work on linux exclusively. Doom 3 uses the same installation CD for linux and macosx as it does for windows. It depends on how they build their engine. If they use opengl, openal...instead of windows exclusive directx, it should be able to run on any OS. For Doom 3 on linux, you simply have to download a twenty meg .run file. I'm not saying it wouldn't require a little extra preparation on their part, but it's not that horrendous if the engine is properly built from the beginning.
Alas, I'm sure they'll stick with directx anyway...so no Thief natively on OSX or Linux.
Renault on 9/6/2009 at 18:53
By exclusive, I meant how many end-users are running Linux and no other OS. Not many, probably. It'd be such a small percentage that it's not worth spending any resources to develop, even if the effort is minimal. Geeks like id do it because, well, they're geeks.
SubJeff on 9/6/2009 at 19:11
It must be such a tiny minority that I don't think its worth it. Having it on Mac and PC is enough, surely. If its a byproduct of the process then fine but putting extra effort into it would be a waste imho.
New Horizon on 9/6/2009 at 19:29
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It must be such a tiny minority that I don't think its worth it. Having it on Mac and PC is enough, surely. If its a byproduct of the process then fine but putting extra effort into it would be a waste imho.
Well, if it's compatible with Mac...then it should also be compatible with Linux. Not much extra work involved if that were the case. I'm going to be switching to linux only in a few months, so it would be of interest to me...but oh well...
Yandros on 9/6/2009 at 19:37
The figure I've heard here at work is that the Linux install base worldwide is about 0.8-1.0%. I doubt that includes corporate/enterprise servers and networks, it probably only includes home/small office installations. However, if it's not much more work, then why not?
