http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/179858-unreal-engine-4-now-supports-linux-a...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtfCWYjOsvI#t=35

Unreal 4 means all AAA title games should be able to run on Linux and Steam just as well as it does on the custom game boxes.   With this in place, if it doesn't come out Linux ready it is because the developer wants to limit the game to only one venue due to some contractual reasons.

Example, games primarily developed for a box venue (Halo games for example) will never come out in Linux because the game box maker (Microsoft) wants you to buy their new Xbox and they are twisting your arm until you do.

People are leaving Xbox now because of such like behaviors (Sony is cooperating with Steam OS for example) but that is a different story for some other forum to hash over.

As former/semi-current "gamer' I can tell you it is a VERY complicated model that risen.

I do think there is at least ONE parallel say with the automobile... or for that matter motorcycles.

Just as with most US car owners... most just buy a car and drive it stock. Its just too complicated and proprietary not to. Computers use to be easy... not too expensive to "mod", and such mods could afford at least some payback in gameplay. Today.. not so much. You can choose to buy and install high dollar, but dropoff in gains get severe pretty fast. (32GB RAM is not better than 8GB.. for 99% of games) This has dropped an entire niche of game players.

Other factors: hacking is very sophisticated.. game makers cant get thier money back when game is pirated 24 hours after release. hacking also ruins game play. Groups abound to "mine" ingame currency to then sell for US dollars. This dominates all MMO games today, and and ended the ability of the game to create a stable virtual entity.

Lastly, is of course the cell phone game. Teens are now addicted to 100% always being online, and playing something. To wait to get to a console or desktop to sit down and play... is just passe.  This has really broken the old model. Nothing can be done to really fix this. This also means that cheaper consoles.. cheaper desktops will not fix anything for game makers... its not the price.. its the 100% connectivity.

Funny thing??? What if you were a teen addicted to a cell phone game... and I gave you Google Glass and the game was on that? Now you can be playing and possibly no-one will even know. Its plugged into your eye... You just talk to it. And you want the kids to wait til they get home to get on the console???  

Pine wrote on 04/09/14 at 12:57:11:


Man I wish.... but the Glass is just not as agile as everyone thinks it is...albeit I love the thing, but it is causing more issues publically than I like.
Hell cell phones are faster to use, not as noisy, shoot better quality video and easier to post with than the glass.
Fact is Jr. can video you and post it far faster and easier than I could with the glass and you wouldn't hear him saying "OK Glass Record Video" or "OK Glass Send Text Message"
People don't realize that glass is not yet as versatile as it needs to be, it is just another hands free device that needs improvement.