Feral Interactive have put out the system requirements for Total War: WARHAMMER II, due on Linux this month

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: mylka

Quoting: dorronAs much as i love Feral and their great work porting games to Linux...they are doing too many games like this one.

They'd be better off doing something with a wider appeal.

its one of the most played game on steam, that dont have a linux port, or is gta5, pubg, etc

tomb raider will have a linux port i guess. not even 3000 players in the past 24h

https://steamdb.info/app/750920/graphs/
https://steamdb.info/app/594570/graphs/

i also wish they would port yakuza, or elex, or sniper elite, but they have to make money
and then there is proton. could be, that they dont make much money with life is strange 2, cause some play it with steamplay NOW!

That is the problem with Feral and episodic games; they wait until all the season is finished.. That was OK before Proton, but now the rules have changed.
They must release NOW the episode 1 and the episode 2 simultaneously with the Windows version...
Or, at least, if they didn't ported the episode 1, they must release a dummy linux depot, and they must add the Linux icon at the game page... If you buy it on Linux, it will work as a pre-purchase...

Or maybe they have an arrangement with Valve and they will get a cut of Proton sales.

About Shadow of the Tomb Raider, if they haven't announced it by now, is because it will not be ported..the same goes for Shadow of War.

it works for this title, because they already started it, but why would square enix make a deal about a linux port, when the game works fine with proton and they can also have the linux sells without doing anything?

this works with telltales and such games without good graphics, but games like tomb raider should have a native port, because of better performance

or they all use VULKAN in the future and have very good perfomance like wolfenstein and we dont need feral anymore

hard to say what the future brings. maybe sega, or enix buys feral and they make VULKAN games for them


Last edited by mylka on 13 November 2018 at 11:44 am UTC

Quoting: mylkait works for this title, because they already started it, but why would square enix make a deal about a linux port, when the game works fine with proton and they can also have the linux sells without doing anything?

To the best of our knowledge, Feral pays the owners for the right to port and sell, so from Square Enix' point of view, the answer would be: "Why not?"

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: mylkait works for this title, because they already started it, but why would square enix make a deal about a linux port, when the game works fine with proton and they can also have the linux sells without doing anything?

To the best of our knowledge, Feral pays the owners for the right to port and sell, so from Square Enix' point of view, the answer would be: "Why not?"

does this, or any game have significant more sells, when its linux native, even though its platinum with proton?
i dont think so, so enix would make more money, if they dont give feral a license and let the linux gamers pay for the windows/proton version

lets take just cause 1-3. this game just dont work with proton, so it would have more sales, if feral does a native port. enix gets money from feral and feral from the linux gamers

and thats another point we dont know yet. maybe just cause 5 (4 is too early) has VULKAN and works perfectly fine with proton. do we need a native port then? do we need a native port of doom, or wolfenstein? would be nice, but imho it would be better if they put their manpower in something else

Quoting: mylkadoes this, or any game have significant more sells, when its linux native, even though its platinum with proton?
i dont think so, so enix would make more money, if they dont give feral a license and let the linux gamers pay for the windows/proton version

Ah, I didn't think of lowering Square Enix' sales. I consider the risc low, though. If you're publishing a Linux version near the Windows version, Proton sales will be low. If you're doing it months or years later, most Proton sales will probably already have taken place. (I personally did not yet buy a game not natively supporting Linux and don't intend to in foreseeable future.)

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: mylkadoes this, or any game have significant more sells, when its linux native, even though its platinum with proton?
i dont think so, so enix would make more money, if they dont give feral a license and let the linux gamers pay for the windows/proton version

Ah, I didn't think of lowering Square Enix' sales. I consider the risc low, though. If you're publishing a Linux version near the Windows version, Proton sales will be low. If you're doing it months or years later, most Proton sales will probably already have taken place. (I personally did not yet buy a game not natively supporting Linux and don't intend to in foreseeable future.)

i am more pragmatic. if the game works with proton without restriction, i buy it. i think thats the common thinking
i think publishers like bethesda make more money with their games, when they use VULKAN and let linux gamers play with proton, than sell it to feral and let them earn money with native ports

I have been waiting for this game to come to Linux so this is exciting news.

I read on Steam that it takes 60GB storage on Windows, so I guess it will be about the same on Linux(?)
I'll need another SSD for that, but I was planning on buying another one anyway.

Quoting: Patolaforget about Total War. It's micromanagement to the core.

Yeah, I figured that might be a more correct assessment. Pass for me, cheers! :)