Re: Origin on Linux

I think the problem is mainly that there hasn´t been a lot of innovation in video games technology for PC these times. While most software today can be ported to Linux easily , a lot of game engines used today are rather old and not designed to be used on Linux. A lot of engines are also primitively designed for game consoles (which personnaly i dont like because the PC and console gameplays are different).

Developping a new engine is a real challenge these days and the engine also determines Linux / Mac support. The older Source (CSS, HL2, DoD, Left for Dead)  is a notable exception since its heavy OpenGL support makes it possible for gamesto be ported on Linux easily, but it is too old and it´s not used anymore.

Today´s used engines are focused on consoles and rather old : RAGE (Rockstar 2006), Crystal Tools (FFXIV engine, designed in 2005), MT (Capcom 2006), Infinity Ward (CoD) 2009, CryEngine (Crysis 1 2, Far Cry 1 2 3 etc) 2007... The next big engines seem to be Unreal 4 and Frostbite 3 but I don´t think they will support Linux.

At EA they use rather modern engines (Frostbite 2 is the BF3 engine) that seem to be completely focused on DirectX and therefore hard to port to Linux (youd have to use Wine). It seems they will be following the same way with Frostbite 3 (BF4).

This means most future games will be hard to play on Linux.

I had enough with Windows and jumped straight to Linux at home.  Guess I'll have to just stick with Steam since they are the big players and started to push Linux support. And yes I pay for Linux games.  Only way EA/BF4 is getting my money is through Linux.

P.S. Linux Source Opengl out performs refined Windows Source DirectX

The sad thing is that Call of Duty is on Steam and is the top ranked download... Why Can't EA ditch Origin?
Origin has a bad user interface, crashes regularly and has more intrusive ads than Steam. It does not have support for Linux either.

Origin is a prime example of how blinded EA has become by greed. I can guarantee that EA would have had more sales if they sold the games on Steam.

I want EA to embrace both Steam and Linux. The few EA games that are available on Steam are far more stable than their Origin versions, so EA is obviously doing something wrong.

I'm eagerly anticipating the release of Steambox.  I'm betting the "console-pc" based on Linux will be a market breaker and a turning point for PC gaming.  Hopefully Origin is already looking at moving towards Linux based games too but I do wonder if they have the time to even think about what the competition is doing, while they are running around trying to fix broken games.

I also would like to see Origin on Linux, maybe by using SteamOS as base. Like Steam Big Picture mode. Of source it should also be possible to run Orgin standalone on every Linix distro.

That said, I'm looking out for the first Native AAA EA Game on Linux.

"emulated like we do in Wine"

The meaning of Wine is "Wine Is Not Emulator". Saying that because you emulate it is slower is talking *, sir.

Of course the Linux gamesphere is far from nice, but at least I can play Counter strike :V
Move to Linux then world would follow you...

By the way, installing W7 into another HDD is far better than play around Grub then * your actual config.
You can do that even on laptops (like me) cuz you can buy a sata bay for your DVD drive ( I did use once a year to burn the OS iso)

Don't know why everybody calls it dual boot when you can't load them at time.
The only difference between dual bot and install into another HDD is "where did u save the grub/mbr entry" and to use the main MBR/GRUB or use Bios boot override key at boot.

Im my personal experience, even hating Windows, I did take more advantage using Windows 8 as main SO and Linux as second, cuz I can fully load the Linux inside a VM from a real disk... so I don't rehuse to work with my 2nd linux even while playing from Windows box. That's a real DUAL OS for me...

If there's a way to share real disk into a Windows VM machine i would prefer to not use Windows as host machine, cuz is prone to viruses that could affect the rest of system. But for install few games is PERFECT.