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Yet another title in Steam's top 10 most played games on Linux. Brilliant. That's the vast majority now.

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Quoting: Anonymous"...and future AAA games..."

I wonder if this means just Firaxis, or Take2 as a whole... GTAV on Linux, anyone?

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"...and future AAA games..."

FUCK YEAH

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I'm not much of a strategy game fan, but i bought it anyway. :)

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Where are those guys now who laughed when I said we'll see Civ V next? :P

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I have been waiting for this day since the launch day. I'm a civ fan.

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OMG! This is A W E S O M E!!!!

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After all that FUD spread about OpenGL/Linux gaming in the last weeks, it's good to see this great game beeing released for Linux. Downloading now!

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Oh happy day, I bought this on the Humble Sid Meier Bundle sale and FINALLY I can play it on my chosen system :-)

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I can say I'm glad that they take a look under the hood now. Never forget that this was their first AAA title to be ported, and within that the first AAA engine to support. I agree on the voices that it was poorly tested, and shouldn't have been released in that state. Though, nothing you can't fix, but it brings bad publicity and angry customers.

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Maybe just for some nerds it will be better if you will add native version to content with source
( http://steamcommunity.com/app/8930/discussions/0/558747287340022030/#c540743757954700177 )

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Wow, I wasn't expecting Civ V to come out before XCOM *at all*. Let's see if my marriage will survive this.

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Good riddance, Valve doesn't need this moron at their company.

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So disappointing, there are many saying the same thing on the forum and devs have yet to respond...kinda BS. They must think we are dumb

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Yep! But I have no space left on my steam partition to try it :D

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Well, I am installing Ubuntu 14.04

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Did anyone see - Civ V on Linux now?

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Quoting: imantsBecause face it many old games will be ported using wrappers

I'd rather they'd contribute to Wine in that case, Wine being FLOSS and all.

Quoting: CaldazarWow Liam, you seem to have made quite a name for yourself on being a heck of a nuisance

I for one thought Liam was pretty...milquetoasty. So I'll apply for being "worse cop".

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Wow Civ 5 on Linux!

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Is this even legal? To call them steam machines :S. Well let microsoft try, not gonna buy it and I'm more intressted in linux future then what microsoft are trying to sell us.

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Quoting: LiamSomething I have said before is that if it doesn't have SteamOS or a Steam Controller then how is it a Steam Machine? It isn't. The entire point of Steam Machines are to have Valve's software on it.

Sure, it is!

What is a Steam Machine? It's a PC with SteamOS on it.
What is SteamOS? It's a Debian Linux plus some Valve Software on it.

Quoting: AlienwareSteamOS is obviously been designed around one single use, whereas Windows is a multi-use operating system that can be custom tailored around any one particular use

Sorry, but Alienware are Idiots and don't understand SteamOS/Linux at all.

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All of this talk of what would happen if Steam Machines fail reminds me of a conversation my mother had with her mother about what she would have done if the Cuban Missile Crisis had turned out differently and resulted in a nuclear war and socioeconomic collapse. My grandmother commented that they would just go back to how they lived during the Great Depression, something which at the time was easily in living memory.

The main advantage we have now as compared to the Loki Linux gaming boom is that we have a much more diverse ecosystem now than we did then - we are not dependant on a single vendor or a single distributor, despite the rush by some to put all of their eggs in Valve's basket. For me the turn-around for Linux gaming again really was in 2010 with the arrival of the Humble Indie Bundle and the initial flood of independent interest; indeed, I have been playing an almost continual catch up with my ever growing gaming library since at least 2011, long before Valve arrived.

For this reason I myself am not overly concerned by any of this, as I have tapped myself into a stronger diverse well not tied as heavily into consumer trends and myopic AAA interest. It just goes to show that we do need to remember where we came from, and that there still is a need to be ready to fallback to old stalwarts if/when things do go wrong.

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Just tested on GTX 650 Ti Bost and Ubuntu 14.04 with property drivers enabled same problem as jdub :(

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That's fine. Valve isn't ready, but it doesn't necessarily mean that alienware wont ever release a SteamOS system, just that they have decided to release something in the mean time to fill the gap, and why not. They can use this to iron out the issues and build a bit of momentum, so that when the time comes, they have a head start on their competitors.

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Wow Liam, you seem to have made quite a name for yourself on being a heck of a nuisance to sloppy programmers (or decent programmers forced to do sloppy work; even more common to be fair).

Now, who's doing the good cop?

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Are they called Virtual Programling because that is what they do as opposed to real programming? :P

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Good! Cause I just bought the damn game

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It would be good if they fix most bugs. Because face it many old games will be ported using wrappers and it would be in our best interests that next time it would be mature as much as possible.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyThen it's a weird non-sequitur. Their claim was always that it's not "financially feasible"; nothing to do with the code being available.

That's their claim. I don't buy it, is all. If their financial health is that precarious, they must be worried sick about not being able to finish TW3.
Oh wait.
It may not bring in an insane amount of money, that I do not deny. But what has this whole mess brought them exactly, in comparison?

PS - My Steam is in €, too. Not that it makes a difference to them. Hence my comment. ;)

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