Battlefield Director: Linux Only Needs One 'Killer' Game To Explode

dryriver writes with an except from Polygon's interview with DICE creative directory Lars Gustavsson, who says it would only take one "killer" game for Linux to break into mainstream gaming (something some would argue it already has): "We strongly want to get into Linux for a reason," Gustavsson said. "It took Halo for the first Xbox to kick off and go crazy — usually, it takes one killer app or game and then people are more than willing [to adopt it] — it is not hard to get your hands on Linux, for example, it only takes one game that motivates you to go there." "I think, even then, customers are getting more and more convenient, so you really need to convince them how can they marry it into their daily lives and make an integral part of their lives," he explained, sharing that the studio has used Linux servers because it was a "superior operating system to do so." Valve's recently announced Steam OS and Steam Machines are healthy for the console market, Gustavsson said when asked for his opinion on Valve's recent announcements."

YOLD!

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally, The Year Of The Linux Desktop has come!

DICE

[djupedal]

/. promotes itself and can't even get the blurb right.

Poor Lars. . .

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Funny thing to say.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

All the games are killer apps, in some sense. The player kills. And the games are full of explosions. So one more killer app? That is going to make linux explode?

Re:YOLD!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry, you will be able to boot to a text-mode console and fiddle endlessly with X server dependency hell trying to get a graphical environment going.

Ah, I see your problem. You must be running a Linux distro from 10 years ago. I know your uptime is probably the stuff of legends right now, but maybe you ought to think about upgrading to a modern Linux distro if you want to play games.

Re: YOLD!

[Anonymous Coward]

All thanks to Tux Racer!!!

Re:YOLD!

[ArbitraryName]

Sigh. There was never a G5 Powerbook, they stopped at G4. That was the joke.

that'll sting for a while

[Hognoxious]

My eyes were dialated

It's fairly mild [dialsoap.com] so you should be OK soon.

Re: YOLD!

[grcumb]

Windows developers are used to shitty looking UIs with crappy APIs, Mac developers are the opposite.

So Mac developers are used to crappy UIs with shitty-looking APIs?

(I kid, I kid. I just get these Sheldon moments from time to time...)

Re: YOLD!

[MysteriousPreacher]

In former Soviet Union, grits Beowulf your pants cluster. Ah, forget it...