Linux Ubuntu

[RyanD1987]

Hi EA

When are you going to port to linux. I have played steam games on ubuntu and just love it. I have smoother gameplay on dota2 as well as other great gaming titles and i am running it on intel based graphics hardware and it runs smoothly. I think it is time you woke up and start doing what steam done. Port to a real OS that does not crash on you when you playing games. 

[ragnarok013]

EA will invest in Linux when there is sufficient customer demand to make economic sense. As a Ubuntu fan I understand your desire to have gaming support but until the install base of Linux grows to a supportable number I'm afraid that you'll have to dual boot windows for your gaming needs.

[JPet_Gamer]

The install base for linux is small ( less than 1% of the total PCs atm) http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey but hopefully with SteamOS linux gets some love.

[Nuckn_futs1]

Hey, thanks for your response, that does make sense, though there are many running Linux in the world and I know my website gets many Linux user hits but guess not public enough yet.

[Teach109py]

People would want to play on Linux if there where enough games in this OS, but there are not enough games because there are not enough people using it. What a doom for a OS made by people and not an enterprise that could make deals with other enterprises making games.

I think that the videogame makers must to realise the benefits to have an OS not made by a competitor, a vision that many other software devel. companies did not have in the past. E.j. Novell Netware.

Develop in Linux and port to whatever other platform could be a secure road, and now it is already being done.

[IIPrest0nII]

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