EA Talks About Gaming At UDS: It's Boring

[sado1]

They may suck, they may use Wine, they may not care (or even know) about other Linux distros than Ubuntu, but still they are going to port games to Linux. Seriously, few months or years ago we'd take 14 games from any big publisher as a success for Linux desktop. (A lame emulated success, but still, it's a sign of hope). I know Valve is much better than that, both in their attitude and in the way they're going to achieve the Linux goal, but it's still something. I'm surprised everyone here is that negative. For me, they don't deserve to be greeted with applause there, but nor they deserve to be mocked for starting to port stuff to Linux. Also, didn't the guy say that they are moving away from Wine towards native ports? Because that's what OMG Ubuntu reports, but Michael wrote they didn't tell anything about native plans.

[t.s.]

They may suck, they may use Wine, they may not care (or even know) about other Linux distros than Ubuntu, but still they are going to port games to Linux. Seriously, few months or years ago we'd take 14 games from any big publisher as a success for Linux desktop. (A lame emulated success, but still, it's a sign of hope). I know Valve is much better than that, both in their attitude and in the way they're going to achieve the Linux goal, but it's still something. I'm surprised everyone here is that negative. For me, they don't deserve to be greeted with applause there, but nor they deserve to be mocked for starting to port stuff to Linux. Also, didn't the guy say that they are moving away from Wine towards native ports? Because that's what OMG Ubuntu reports, but Michael wrote they didn't tell anything about native plans.

Fact [if they'll porting their game to linux] please? It's from your logic, your opinion. As for my opinion:

During a Q&A with Hilleman, he revealed some interesting information: -

• EA have built 14 different products for WINE but are moving away from it
• They are seeking to create a set of ?configuration sets? with Canonical on hardware they will support
• They are most excited about HTML5 and WebGL ? which boasts the widest reach
• Hilleman expects China to pick an OS ?not made by Microsoft?
• The company will ?showing off? a browser-based game with Playstation 2 grade graphics at Google I/O
• They will be judging the ?success? of the Ubuntu titles on user rather than ?financial? metrics

Well, from information above, I think they still make some game exclusive for windows and won't porting that game to linux. But they will make games that can be played across OS: web based game.

And if you think it's OK for playing with WINE, we don't need them to state that. Already knew that that there's bunch of windows games that can be played with WINE, plenty of good windows game among them. Time will tell who's right . Oh, and porting game is not something that easy to accomplish, dear watson! Not for one that design their stuff to just run in one platform.

[yogi_berra]

Activision isn't bad company, beacause they had problems with Loki Software:

Activision locked employees in a room, reducing them to tears over a period of several hours, all because their bosses were leaving the company. They are a bad company.

[curaga]

Activision locked employees in a room, reducing them to tears over a period of several hours, all because their bosses were leaving the company. They are a bad company.

Link? My google-fu is weak today.

[gbudny]

Activision locked employees in a room, reducing them to tears over a period of several hours, all because their bosses were leaving the company. They are a bad company.

Interesting story

There are 5 official linux games from Loki/Activision:

- Heavy Gear II
- Heretic II
- Quake III Arena
- Civilization: Call to Power
- Soldier of Fortune

Activision is better than EA

There is 1 official "Linux game" from EA:

Sims (Winex)

[yogi_berra]

Link? My google-fu is weak today.

http://www.totalvideogames.com/Modern-Warfare-2/news/Activision-Had-Infinity-Ward-Staff-In-Tears-15039.html

[yogi_berra]

Interesting story

Not a story, it's a fact.

There are 5 official linux games from Loki/Activision:

- Heavy Gear II
- Heretic II
- Quake III Arena
- Civilization: Call to Power
- Soldier of Fortune

Activision is better than EA

There is 1 official "Linux game" from EA:

Sims (Winex)

Activision and EA are would sell your kidneys on the black market if they could get away with it.

[Svartalf]

Interesting story

There are 5 official linux games from Loki/Activision:

Actually Activision's only involvement was signing a deal with Loki to produce those AAA titles. Loki spent quite a bit of money to have the privilege of doing those ports- and they weren't published by Activision...they were published by Loki.

[xpander]

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There is 1 official "Linux game" from EA:

Sims (Winex)

wasnft Medal Of Honor Allied Assault EA published?
i think it had linux port also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor:_Allied_Assault

[entropy]

wasnft Medal Of Honor Allied Assault EA published?
i think it had linux port also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_o...Allied_Assault

This is one of the typical cases where icculus actually was paid to port the server to Linux,
but decided to port the client as well in his spare time, free of charge. The client is labeled 'beta',
as it, IIRC, says in the README that it still has lots of issues.

http://icculus.org/~ravage/mohaa/

The MoH client used the Miles Sound System, so he was required to remove it in favour for OpenAL
to avoid licencing issues. Maybe that's where some of the "unusual" problems are coming from,
assuming that he didn't what to invest too much time on the client.

So surely EA was not actively pushing for a Linux client in this case. It's more like EA didn't prevent Icculus
from porting and releasing one.