No Linux, No Open Beta for Rage?

[exfileme]

Rage may not be heading to Linux.

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[manjyomethunder]

This is making me rage.

 

[Impulse Fire911]

looks like a cool game.. kinda stupid if it doesnt come out for pc well.

 

[doomtomb]

No Linux port. No real loss there.

 

[nun]

i agree no loss to me at least

 

[Glorian]

"If there are hundreds of thousands of Linux users playing Quake Live when we are done with Rage, that would certainly influence our decision"

Enough is said with that statement right there. There simply isn't a big enough market for it, and if it pisses off the 2% of the gaming community, so what no loss to them.

One should know better that if you plan on using Linux as your main OS you are going to have things that are just not supported, that includes games.

 

[kairoq]

I could be wrong but I thought that the plan was the same as other id games, after a couple years id tech 5 and the source for rage will eventually become open source once its old enough and the community can create a port if they wish.

 

[kairoq]

I could be wrong but I thought that the plan was the same as other id games, after a couple years id tech 5 and the source for rage will eventually become open source once its old enough and the community can create a port if they wish.

 

[randomizer]

Basically they have no intention of porting to a platform where they don't make money. Typical of most developers. Understandable from a business perspective but still annoying that they only support the monopoly.

 

[wongster]

not a loss

 

[megamanx00]

You probably won't see a Linux port till the engine is open sourced and people take the time and effort to make it work with Linux.

 

[jhansonxi]

Probably due to the ZeniMax Media influence. Many Linux users have game consoles so it's not much of a problem.

 

[maigo]

PC & Mac support but no Linux, first time THATS ever happened

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]maigo[/nom]PC & Mac support but no Linux, first time THATS ever happened[/citation]

Ha...
I'd think the Macintosh gaming community would be smaller than the Linux gaming community.
Considering the only platofrm which could play the game is their dual socket tower and the best GPU you can get from mac is a 512mb 4870...

This is dissapointing regardless.

 

[Soul_keeper]

Every game that doesn't have linux support won't see my money.
I might be in the few percentile, but I speak with my wallet

Doesn't bother me too much, the only games I really play anymore are years old or completely open source.

 

[scuba dave]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]Ha...I'd think the Macintosh gaming community would be smaller than the Linux gaming community.Considering the only platofrm which could play the game is their dual socket tower and the best GPU you can get from mac is a 512mb 4870...This is dissapointing regardless.[/citation]

Mac's have had the option of the GTX 285 for awhile now.
Just saying.

But regardless, I think it's not very wise.. It wouldn't take all THAT much effort to port it over..

 

[bk420]

Some tux-nerd will figure it out. We'll see how many months/years it will take though.

 

[zak_mckraken]

Isn't Linux great for it's community? I don't use Linux much, if ever, but if I did, I would expect games to be ported by independant groups, not by the companies themselves.

 

[Guest]

Why bother with OSX then if not Linux? Nobody buys a Mac to game on, and a marginally adequate Mac costs as much as a really nice high-end PC. Surely great effort goes into the Mac port, Linux is easier to develop for than OSX. They could just support WINE rather than native Linux, and it would all be good.

 

[deltatux]

No Linux port = fail. 'nuff said.

It doesn't affect me too much 'cuz I'm not one of those if it ain't on Linux, I won't get it. I probably might get it on Windows if it indeed is a good game. Hey, at least it's an OpenGL game, so that's a plus...