[QUOTE]THQ, the American game company responsible for a great deal of computer games and was the company behind the recent controversial Humble Bundle, is currently evaluating the market for bringing their titles to Linux.
THQ and Humble Bundle received a great deal of heat over their recent Humble Bundle of THQ games. That recent bundle was still pay-what-you-want, but the games weren't compatible with Linux (only Windows), were only available through Steam, and THQ isn't exactly an indie game studio. The THQ games they were shipping included Warhammer 40000 Dawn of War, Saints Row The Third, Titan Quest, Red Faction Armageddon, Darksiders, Metro 2033, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, and Company of Heroes Tales of Valor.
While this latest Humble Bundle didn't offer anything for Linux users, plenty of Linux gamers expressed their feedback to THQ about the lack of Linux clients for these games.
Jason Rubin, the president of THQ, has tweeted they are now looking at possibly bringing their games to Linux as the result of Humble feedback. In response to a question asked on Twitter, Rubin wrote, "Got the Linux message load and clear via #HumbleBundle feedback. Evaluating cost/benefit as we speak."
In a follow-up response, Jason Rubin also noted that they are using the Unity game engine for one of their current projects. Unity 4.0 bears Linux support, though this won't be too helpful for getting their existing game catalog to Linux. THQ is responsible for a wide variety of games from Warhammer and Company of Heroes to WWE wrestling to the Nexuiz game re-make.[/QUOTE]
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Well, if this helps them stay afloat, I'm all for it; anything to ensure Dark Millennium and Dawn of War 3.
Linux is getting more dev support by the month
If they're going to do any more humble bundles, then this would make sense. Linux users almost always pay the most on the other bundles.
I just hope they decide to do an actual port, and not a lazy piece of shit they call a wine package.
Shame this will probably be a waste of time and resources and won't help them as much as they probably hope.
[QUOTE=The freeman;38857091]Shame this will probably be a waste of time and resources and won't help them as much as they probably hope.[/QUOTE]
Linux users didn't buy the Bundle...
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38857099]Linux users didn't buy the Bundle...[/QUOTE]
Wrong post you are quoting mate.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38857099]Linux users didn't buy the Bundle...[/QUOTE]
Read my post.
[B]Other bundles[/B]
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38857099]Linux users didn't buy the Bundle...[/QUOTE]
You can't really say that.
valve give them a hand yo
Jason Rubin is a cool guy.
and to think so many of these games don't even have Mac ports, getting Linux ports
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38857311]and to think so many of these games don't even have Mac ports, getting Linux ports[/QUOTE]
The Linux community seems to be a bit more vocal about it. And not to mention there's a much wider potential audience in the long term compared to OS X.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38857311]and to think so many of these games don't even have Mac ports, getting Linux ports[/QUOTE]
Linux should be the priority. It's more open, has a generally more technical userbase and is more diverse in plenty of areas. The different distributions cater to a lot of people.
Plus you aren't locked down by apple in some respects, so that's reason enough.
I'm not so sure about this. It is great that the Linux guys will get to have more games, but wouldn't this throw THQ more into the red since they have to develop for more platforms?
[QUOTE=PaChIrA;38857483]I'm not so sure about this. It is great that the Linux guys will get to have more games, but wouldn't this throw THQ more into the red since they have to develop for more platforms?[/QUOTE]
It's probably not a large task for a company like THQ. They just need to abandon things locked down by Microsoft (DirectX for example) and the rest should be somewhat trivial for such a big company.
Oh THQ, I can't quit you <3
I really hope this brings them some money but I have to say I don't know if this will be beneficial. I guess the past way to find out is to look at the sales figures of other companies who have released Linux games on steam :P
will this mean that they'll expand to OS X too?
THQ is going big or going home! I hope they survive.
Be nice if they ended up doing this
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;38861206]will this mean that they'll expand to OS X too?[/QUOTE]
if they had working Linux ports it wouldn't take that long to make Mac ports
so they probably would
Come on THQ, you need to keep going, I need you to make Dawn of War 3!
[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38857454]Linux should be the priority. It's more open, has a generally more technical userbase and is more diverse in plenty of areas. The different distributions cater to a lot of people.
Plus you aren't locked down by apple in some respects, so that's reason enough.[/QUOTE]
Has a far smaller userbase though
It'd be good if they do start doing this early, means they'll have titles to sell if the Steambox or what ever you want to call it picks up and that Valve does decide to use Linux as a base.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;38863458]Has a far smaller userbase though[/QUOTE]
willing to pay though.
[QUOTE=Van-man;38863662]willing to pay though.[/QUOTE]
The thing is, that those willing to pay for are fairly relative when you think about it. I'd wager that most that are willing to buy games and use linux tend to dual boot to windows by default. Add to that something that amounts to a tenth of the OSx user base and a distaste for closed software by a further group of linux advocates you get a situation where linux really feels more like a third choice.
Osx on the other hand tends to be used
a) by young adults
b) by people who are generally financially better off
c) people who are not used to large amounts of free software
and you generally get a much better demographic.
The only reason why you wouldn't got for OSx is that I'd wager that the sheer majority of OSx machines don't have a dedicated GPU.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;38863888]The thing is, that those willing to pay for are fairly relative when you think about it. I'd wager that most that are willing to buy games and use linux tend to dual boot to windows by default. Add to that something that amounts to a tenth of the OSx user base and a distaste for closed software by a further group of linux advocates you get a situation where linux really feels more like a third choice.
Osx on the other hand tends to be used
a) by young adults
b) by people who are generally financially better off
c) people who are not used to large amounts of free software
and you generally get a much better demographic.
The only reason why you wouldn't got for OSx is that I'd wager that the sheer majority of OSx machines don't have a dedicated GPU.[/QUOTE]
Also the fact that third party OEMs can contribute to the ecosystem on Linux, which with Valve pushing developers to support Linux through steam I can imagine that Canonical could at least talk some OEMs to offer machines running Ubuntu to consumers.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;38857099]Linux users didn't buy the Bundle...[/QUOTE]Not the THQ one since it was windows only.
This is most likely due to Steam coming to Linux. Any company that knows the current games industry (and isn't trying to promote their own rival system) knows that Steam is a no-brainer for getting your game into the hands a lot of people.
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