Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 02, 2006 01:02 AM
It's just not realistic to get most games ported to a platform when there's a 90% Windows monopoly.
Making games seems to cost so much money these days that the game companies only try to make blockbusters for the general public and still many classic game companies have gone bankrupt. I like simulations and other kinds of games that most people don't understand. There are very few good realistic and difficult simulations published nowadays, no game company takes risks and tries to please minority crowds even with Windows games.
Being a programmer, I however realise that porting games to other platforms is not that expensive(you don't have to redraw the graphics and rehire the voice actors etc.). I think they fear support issues with the many versions of free operating systems. This is where Wine or Cedega, emulating many versions of Windows would be a very good platform to test and publish games on.
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Re:... on the other hand...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 02, 2006 01:02 AMMaking games seems to cost so much money these days that the game companies only try to make blockbusters for the general public and still many classic game companies have gone bankrupt. I like simulations and other kinds of games that most people don't understand. There are very few good realistic and difficult simulations published nowadays, no game company takes risks and tries to please minority crowds even with Windows games.
Being a programmer, I however realise that porting games to other platforms is not that expensive(you don't have to redraw the graphics and rehire the voice actors etc.). I think they fear support issues with the many versions of free operating systems. This is where Wine or Cedega, emulating many versions of Windows would be a very good platform to test and publish games on.
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