2009/4/24 Oli Warner <o...@thepcspy.com>: > How do you expect FOSS to make serious gains into the gaming market? Big > commercial games (read COD, Oblivion, Fallout, most RPGs) are like > interactive movies and they take about the same amount of money and manpower > to produce... That's something FOSS is rarely going to be able to reproduce. > > You're treating this as if Windows gamers don't use Ubuntu because they > don't have enough access to FOSS games. Truth is, most popular FOSS games > have binary installers for Windows but you ask one Windows gamer if they > care about something like Nexuiz and chances are they've never heard of it > because they're too busy with the likes of Fallout 3, Bioshock, Assassins > Creed or Call of Duty World at War. That's where the problem is; studios > aren't making the games for Linux so gamers don't migrate. > > It's Chicken vs Egg. You're pushing for the Chicken. Get the gamers here and > studios will make the games cross-platform. But I think you infinitely more > chance of success backing the Egg. "If you build it, they will come" > > If I were you, I'd talk to small independent game studios. Give them a > route-to-market (coming up next) and help them with the development. There > are a couple of companies that provide porting services but they're not > in-house, they're not cheap and they're not ideal for the end-users. > > They're still commercial games, so they still need to sell. One thing > stopping companies moving over is there isn't a decent platform for selling > their games. If there was "a Steam" for Linux, showing off the best of Linux > gaming (both FOSS and commercial), I think a LOT more companies (large and > small) would consider Linux as a viable platform. > > Once that reaches critical mass, your work is done. Critical mass. More > users will move over and more companies will develop for it. >
Yes, but look what happens when game devs try to port their work to Linux: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/09/mini-rant.html No wonder they stay far away. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
