Don't Get Your Hopes Up On Borderlands 2 On Linux Says Randy From Gearbox

Quoting: scaineI am in awe of what Icculus does, but I've yet to play a single one UE3 game that didn't have horrible, often game-breaking bugs.

Examples :

Killing Floor - missing textures on all maps, West London is nearly unplayable as a result. I can see the invisible monsters. But I can't see through some scopes...

Sanctum 2 - Textures missing (minor), collision issues (player and monsters falling through the world) and many, many random crashes. This one is still in beta, but it's been like that for weeks without any updates.

Killing Floor doesnt have those bugs anymore. The textures have been fixed and the scope has been fixed, even the invisible monsters are fixed. Sanctum 2 is still beta and you cant really judge it yet.

Quoting: Anonymous

Quoting: entropyWasn't Gabe Newell saying recently that it turned out to be easy to convince publishers to support Linux? Gearbox obviously disagrees.

convincing to do new game for it is 100x easier than convincing for late port

when you do new game (if done correctly) you'll need minimal work. it will share marketing expense and you'll sell over all platforms. this is simple win which is not hard to persuade into

late port needs extra work, extra marketing... and there is a fact of how many people will buy it. lots of people already bought windows version to play native or on wine. now... this is where persuading over risk gets trickier

Good point.

Let's see what the end of the year will bring us from the big publishers.

I bet this means no

Quoting: liamdaweWhat's not to be "butthurt" about that?

I thought you're feeling butthurt, because we should lower our hopes for a borderlands 2 port. I mean, I can understand your opinion about Colonial Marines very well, but I think that one doesn't belong to this news/article, does it?

Quoting: liamdaweI paid out for two pre-order copies ~£60 of Colonial Marines based on "actual game-play" videos

I hope you learned your lesson then :D

Quoting: alexThunder

Quoting: liamdaweWhat's not to be "butthurt" about that?

I thought you're feeling butthurt, because we should lower our hopes for a borderlands 2 port. I mean, I can understand your opinion about Colonial Marines very well, but I think that one doesn't belong to this news/article, does it?

That's the second time you've alluded that Colonial Marines is irrelevant to this editorial. Almost as if you had no idea who developed it.

Hint: Gearbox.

maybe the next borderlands gets a linux support...

Quoting: Anonymous

Quoting: entropyWasn't Gabe Newell saying recently that it turned out to be easy to convince publishers to support Linux? Gearbox obviously disagrees.

convincing to do new game for it is 100x easier than convincing for late port

when you do new game (if done correctly) you'll need minimal work. it will share marketing expense and you'll sell over all platforms. this is simple win which is not hard to persuade into

late port needs extra work, extra marketing... and there is a fact of how many people will buy it. lots of people already bought windows version to play native or on wine. now... this is where persuading over risk gets trickier

I wish more studios were like Frozenbyte. Trine was released for Windows in July of 2009, for Mac OS in November of 2010, and for Linux in April of 2011. url=[Now Frozenbyte is releasing the game for Linux again, but this time the developers are coding it themselves as opposed to outsourcing the port.