[News] Crytek Showing Off CryEngine On Linux At GDC

How awesome is that going to be?
I've had so many problems with Crysis 1 & 2 & warhead. Hopefully they are making plans to port those over as well.
Maybe even Far Cry3 will get a Linux port?
Hopeful wishing

I figure as much too. The only reason they would port those old game to Linux is because we would buy them, but I'm sure there wouldn't be a lot of profit on their end. Maybe they could charge extra? I don't know...
They run ok in PlayOnLinux, but its just not the same

I am looking forward to some of these new CryEngine games of course! Bring it on!

I'm playing Crysis Warhead right now and am loving it!
I played more than half of Crysis 2 and it was amazing as well. I loved the sunken street environments among the huge city!
Very epic!

Once again Linux gamers get "jipped" and won't see another AAA title.
Our only hope is Wine and DirectX 10/11 support.
At least the list for DirectX 10/11 games is fairly small compared to DirectX 9 games.
But more and more newer games are starting to only support Windows 7, 64-bit and DirectX 10/11/12
Native ports are more desirable than ever

"our day will come and we will have everything"

Once upon a time there was ABC, NBC and CBS. Then came PBS and we saw what commercial free TV might look like...
Well just look at home entertainment now!
It comes at us from EVERYWHERE and everyone is rushing to get a piece...
Linux maybe just a year or two away from totally blowing up...
Why would people continue to pay when,
FREE is offering a very competitive product?

We have much to look forward to
and
at last we can say,
"We have much to enjoy while we wait! ":O}

"Our day will come
and
we will have everything!"

How long will people continue to pay when FREE OPEN SOURCE
is offering a very completive product?

We need only be able to wait!
"Our day will come
and
we will have everything!"

Double LIKE!!!

They are in denial

Some where in the deep recesses of their MS abused and deflected minds they surely must realize that "denial" will soon be all they have
You'll have to forgive me if I picture myself a mouse waving a hat pin to confront a charging elephant on the road to the school of hard knocks! ":O}

I would guess that they would use a highly modified version if at all for anything much beyond what the average guy might use MS for... But ya know, I've just been so wrong in the past...LOL

I was never able to get C.W. to run...did ya do a guide?

Reading your collective posts on the economics of porting a game from MS to Linux...
I don't have any recent info on this but when I was more into these things......Most games were created in Linux and then ported to M.S...has this changed?

What I'm wondering is how-hard would it be , if possible, to wright a program or create hardware that could "Auto-port" past and present games?
Or at lest greatly assist a programmer (or who ever such work would fall to.) in porting a game over to our appreciative hands?
Am I totally off in dreamland here?