#10297092, By Hexagon Crytek, GOG, and Epic on board with Linux support

Hexagon 1 May 2014 19:07:00 352 posts
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Sharzam wrote:
On a semi related note i do find it telling that Blizzard dont bother with Linux. They have supported Mac since day one and even thought about porting WoW to Linux but shelved the plans as they 'couldnt be bothered'.

Star Citizen will be on Linux, is simply skipping Mac OS support, and it isn't even the first game to do so. Natural Selection 2 and Painkiller Hell and Damnation come to mind. Metro: Last Light should have been one as well but the developers dumbed down the graphics so Mac OS could run it too, and that's the version Linux got, unfortunately.

As far as I am aware, Apple is far behind Linux when it comes to OpenGL support. That, plus Roberts sees Apple as the antithesis to what PCs and PC gaming are all about, which they really are, honestly. What's more, when asked in their weekly developer video about Mac OS support, Eric Peterson and another developer basically laughed and said that PCs running Mac OS need better video cards first. This explains why Crytek went straight for Linux support and skipped Mac OS altogether.