Apex for Linux

@Vruhag 

That might be the case that there exists a larger number of x86 based Macs than that of Linux desktop users sure, and Linux is flawed due to the fragmented development and extremely substandard audio performance and support however in terms of raw performance the Linux users would out weigh the MAC OS side considerably as Apple use very limited chipsets with average CPU they pick a ram vendor out of a hat then call that the APPLE Ram they solder the SSD to the motherboard to prevent general user maintaining their device they deceive their customers on repairs they lie about software support they enforce their internal company policy as an arm of the law through deceptive legal tactics…

THINK DIFFERENT……………

Oh and they Charge people for the Hardware accelerated branch of the SDK for METAL 2 which comes with some crazy license.

The Average Mac that contributes to the number of users you’re in reference of is a system that’s not powerful enough to handle anything above couple hundred textured triangles at best of 18fps due to overheads, Those that would buy an external GPU to run on Thunderbolt would be struck down by the additional cost of the game as Making it on MAC would cost to escape the systems lock of apple supported hardware only.

The average MAC user not on a PRO is stuck with

1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz and 4MB L3 cache.

128GB PCIe-based SSD

8GB of 2133MHz LPDDR3

Take into account the lacking features the game would require you'd be on a slide show of a game it's a generic office supplies floor model PC with MAC OS support and an Alloy case big deal.

The average Linux user will have about 15 different sound cards a Handful of Gpus and if not 2 machines maybe up in the region of 15 plus for one person and in supporting of Linux and causing it to grow allows others even those on MACTOPS to use it and possibly use an external GPU unlike MACOS.

@VruhagYou're absolutely correct, a native client for either would be costly and unprofitable. Supporting them officially doesn't make any sense. Changing a single line of code to open up the linux community to support itself does. 

Linux doesn't need a native client. It's emulation game is borderline magical at this point. 

The windows version already runs well via emulation on linux with steamplay/wine/proton/lutris.  It's the anti-cheat software that needs a seriously minor change to not reject connections over wine, a simple line change to allow it as has been done with countless other games in the past. 

Valve has elevated Windows/DirectX emulation to another level such that most games can be made to play well with out any cooperation from the devs and made to play really well if even the most minimal help is offered. .

Had apple not depreciated opengl, rejected vulkan, and opted to further splinter the market with its own metal api they could be directly benefiting from all of Valves heavy lifting.  

Apple has the larger market but they've made both native and emulated support difficult, not to mention the vast majority of those are macbook airs and pros with inadequate hardware

The valve+linux community has bent over backwards to make emulation almost seamless and stuck with the open api that is available to other platforms so that supporting them natively can be less costly if vulkan is already in use. 


Lastly, I'm regretfully working as an apple certfied mac technician while I finish my BS in comp sci and most of the mac owners i come across on the daily don't care about games, they just dont, and wouldn't buy one if they did. Conversely most linux users do at some level, many keeping a windows install around like me for the occasional instance like apex where it doens't just work.