Don't Count On Any EA Frostbite Powered Games On Linux

I wonder who did?

The question is not whether EA wants to get on Linux, the question is whether I want to play games by EA. Apart from Mirror's Edge I can't think of a single title I'd bother with.

First, at this point I don't even think it was worth to ask and second, so few EA games I really care about.

I dont see any point to support EA even if they would port their games to linux.

Eh, i dont care... I don't like their games on frosbite engine either, not because the engine is bad, but i just dont like their game play style. I used to love playing BF 2, but since then, witn bad company and later bf titles everything went just wrong. Its like cod now for me, run and gun. I regret buying bf 4, it was the worst purchase i ever made.

I think market share shouldn't be it all. Linux (especially when Frostbite can do Vulkan) isn't more cost than they get back - when you just run the numbers.

But there are other points that do not show up in those reports: Helping an *independent* platform to grow.
Independency means: Independent from Microsoft on DX. EA was among the first to use Mantle - because of DX not doing the job well enough anymore. And why that? Because MS didn't need to fear other technologies.

I cannot understand: Do they want such a situation again? Do they still want that MS is able to dictate them how to program? What toolchains to use?

They should see their power to be able to drive independent.
This saves money. But maybe less than MS is able to pay them.


Last edited by ljrk on 12 Sep 2015 at 12:24 pm UTC

My statment to Johan Andersson:

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So Dragon Age an Mass Effect, still avoid Linux :(

For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.

Is it possible we have an article about somebody explaining very reasonably and directly why they won't be porting to Linux, without everybody trolling how they don't care about that dev's/publisher's games and they suck overall. I'd don't really like EA, but to say you don't care about whether Mass Effect, Battlefied, NFS, Dragon Age and FIFA series come to Linux is just laughable.

For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.

Yes of course, but use the Steam HWsurvey for a stament is poor.
Realy poor and nonsense, if you don't have Linux with steam 4 linux installed to see how much you get the survey.

But i see it on windows, too.

I have my steam account since 17. October 2013 and i got 2 surveys on the native linux
client, one on wine and one on Windows native.

So i got 4 surveys in 2 years.
Do you see the irony?


Last edited by LinuxGamesTV on 12 Sep 2015 at 12:58 pm UTC

There is some things I want from EA, like the Crysis series and Mirror's Edge. But for most of you, THIS is why I want they showing up in Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhUO3QGeo0


Like it or not, EA is a giant in this industry, and will be very difficult see most people moving from Windows without EA and Ubisoft at our side too.

There is some things I want from EA, like the Crysis series and Mirror's Edge. But for most of you, THIS is why I want they showing up in Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buhUO3QGeo0


Like it or not, EA is a giant in this industry, and will be very difficult see most people moving from Windows without EA and Ubisoft at our side too.

Game and graphics looks realy realy great. But not my genre ^^

I'd kill two individuals of EAs' choosing to get BioWare titles, as well as SW:Battlefront on Linux.
Your loss EA.

I have to say that i don't care at all about to this, have always personally find a crap company even when in the times when i had only Windows, and only used windows to play my games.

The only game that i ever cared was Sim city, they managed to butcher that title too, and gotten blown away with city skylines.

Personally i think we are better off without them, i don't want this buggy shit, oh the bad memories with EA games from the Windows time are hunting me again.

EA = mass production off games, but also a very bad quality assurance.

quote "less then 1% of the potential audience, even Mac (which we don't support) is more than 3x larger"

Dear Johan, you are terribly wrong in your statement and it does not reflect reality..

Only a very narrow portion of Mac users have actually a half-decent GPU capable of serious gaming at least in 720p. Mostly only a few recent iMac´s in higher configuration with some nvidia GPU can deliver acceptable experience. Your "3x larger" market is much smaller than you think and multiple times smaller than current linux potential. Many user wants to dump their Windows copy, abandon that platform but something is still missing, force them to dual-boot. (hint:games)

But things have finally started to change this year thanks to Valve and fantastic work or Feral, Aspyr, Virtual Programming and others..

I was one year a Mac user, purchased expensive iMac with nvidia GT650M and the performance was on the edge of my tolerance, playing most games around 720p in medium details. It´s known that most Mac user are laptop users with some Intel HD graphics, useless for serious gamming so you cannot make from entire OS X market share "potential gaming audience", because it is simply not..

It was actually funny and quite puzzling for me when i have realized this fact after a year of Mac usage. I was not able to understand why publishers like Feral or Aspyr even bother to make ports for OS X, targeting very narrow group of users with more powerfull Macs, because in reality only a few OS X users can enjoy biggest AAA titles decently.

So in reality has Linux much bigger "potential audience" than Macs. OS X market share means absolutely nothing, when looking at through his "gaming potential". On the other side, linux gamers with their variety of gaming PC´s, that is a completelly different story..


Last edited by X6205 on 12 Sep 2015 at 1:08 pm UTC

quote "less then 1% of the potential audience, even Mac (which we don't support) is more than 3x larger"

Dear Johan,
...

You should say him it on twitter

EA ist the best example of a company completely profit driven. Maximum profit driven. EA only cares about customers when their numbers are big enough in complaints.
Though it's legitimate, there are enough examples that there is also a way to show passion about other even smaller things, with also making profit. Personally I hope in the long run, that these companies will be the real winners, and customers/gamers realize that a long term caretaking is what you want.
EA just recently removed several good games from the mobile app stores, because they don't make profit in long term supporting those games (Dead Space, Flight Control, Mass Effect: Infiltrator, ...). You paid for the games, but now they just remove them because they don't want to give you anymore support. Feels a bit like being stolen from.
I also like some games from EA, but I totally dislike their behaviour about customer care.

EA is another big company stuck in the old vicious circle "We don't make games for Linux because nobody use it, and nobody use Linux because all the games run on Windows"... And they will die with Windows

fortunately, big publishers like Deep Silver are not part of that vicious circle and both Metro Redux are solid evidence of that.

The question is not whether EA wants to get on Linux, the question is whether I want to play games by EA. Apart from Mirror's Edge I can't think of a single title I'd bother with.

No, the question is would millions of gamers like to play EA games on SteamOS and Steam Machines.

I don't personally play EA's games but that doesn't matter. Even if I would hate EA, their games and Origin I still would like to see their games on Linux/SteamOS.

SteamOS/Steam Machines requires all games possible to be successful.