Sad, but not unexpected news as the Technical Director on Frostbite at Electronic Arts has said seeing their games on Linux is unlikely.
When asked why he had a simple answer:
That's fine, and completely understandable. The only reason we are getting some bigger games right now is Aspyr, Feral and a few others are hoping on a good future with Steam Machines, so it's not unexpected for a huge company like EA to not do Linux right now.
It's a shame, as before a member of DICE said they strongly wanted to get into Linux, so I guess it never worked out for them.
It is yet another reason why I really hope Steam Machines get included in the Steam survey somehow, I mean Valve want to show the market share for it has grown after release right? I do wonder how they will do this. I haven't seen them talk about this anywhere, so we will have to wait and see. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
@HeavyHDx very unlikely
— Johan Andersson (@repi) September 12, 2015When asked why he had a simple answer:
@HeavyHDx less then 1% of the potential audience, even Mac (which we don't support) is more than 3x larger. http://t.co/o6DCeTCh4E
— Johan Andersson (@repi) September 12, 2015That's fine, and completely understandable. The only reason we are getting some bigger games right now is Aspyr, Feral and a few others are hoping on a good future with Steam Machines, so it's not unexpected for a huge company like EA to not do Linux right now.
It's a shame, as before a member of DICE said they strongly wanted to get into Linux, so I guess it never worked out for them.
It is yet another reason why I really hope Steam Machines get included in the Steam survey somehow, I mean Valve want to show the market share for it has grown after release right? I do wonder how they will do this. I haven't seen them talk about this anywhere, so we will have to wait and see. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: tuubiQuoting: oldrocker99Currently, the total concurrent Steam users is ~7.85 million. Even if it's only 1%, 1% of 7, 850,000 is 785,000 or 863,500 if 1.1% and 1,020,500 if 1.3%.You better check that math, good man. :) 7 580 000 * 0.01 = 75 800.
We are the 1%, not the 0.01% ;)
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Quoting: liamdaweYes, we are one whole percent. One one-hundredth of 'em all. One of every hundred gamers out there is a penguin. Who'da thunk that'd ever happen just a few short years back. Not EA, that's for sure.Quoting: tuubiQuoting: oldrocker99Currently, the total concurrent Steam users is ~7.85 million. Even if it's only 1%, 1% of 7, 850,000 is 785,000 or 863,500 if 1.1% and 1,020,500 if 1.3%.You better check that math, good man. :) 7 580 000 * 0.01 = 75 800.
We are the 1%, not the 0.01% ;)
Now let's get back to work and argue statistics and numbers until big business learns to love the penguin.
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It's ea. Better off without them so smiles all round imho :)
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Crazy Penguin Sep 17, 2015
Quoting: oldrocker99Currently, the total concurrent Steam users is ~7.85 million. Even if it's only 1%, 1% of 7, 850,000 is 785,000 or 863,500 if 1.1% and 1,020,500 if 1.3%. That's a pretty big audience, regardless. Quit using percentages and look at the actual Linux users total.
OK, EA?
Besides the wrong math, which gave you almost the right numbers xD.
Steam reported 125 Million active user accounts last time (March 2015). So this makes at least 1.25 million active linux user accounts.
Last edited by Crazy Penguin on 17 September 2015 at 8:43 am UTC
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