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Hello,
I have seen that the steam release will come soon. I have been waiting for a while to purchase this game as I didn't see yet an official announcement about a native Linux version.
Will the beta, which will be released on Steam, support natively Linux?
Thank you for your time.
P.S. not interested in emulation, wine, crossover, etc..

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Im afraid not at release. Lets hope some time later.
Is there any specific reason? Generally unity based games are pretty straight forward to release to Linux and Mac.
If there is need for testing I'm happy to help.
We admins know a bit about the server, but to answer that about the client we need a dev, maybe Supreem can tell us.
Hi @Sacha
I would be happy to hear an answer from developers. @Supreem would you please be so kind to let us know something more about the possibility of supporting Linux?
Thank you.
Matteo
Ive been curious about this as well. I know Unity can spit out some crap sometimes when exporting a Linux client. Seems to like Windows/mac/mobile more. I am curious if a Linux client has even been attempted. I’d also be willing to test/help/even debug.
There’s a huge Linux user base on steam. It could increase sales significantly. Particularly because there’s no good mmos native to Linux. LoA would more or less own the market...
and having to own a win7 license and dualboot to play this game is meeeh
Well windows 10 came on my laptop. But I had removed it for Linux. But low and behold LoA requires windows and is complete garbage in wine. There is such a huge Linux gaming community these days.
Hello,
New here, and first question was about Linux support, as there was Linux (and Mac)on Steam Greenlight page.
So, i hope there is a Linux client soon enough.
edited March 2018
this seems to be a lively thread, so I´d like to add some info from my experience:
While Unity allows a developer to release clients for various plattforms, this does not mean it will be a client that is 'native' to that plattform. For more info you should read more into the subject and Unity handling it. It´s a big topic and there is ways to make it work, but from an industrial perspective it is most often not efficient to invest the needed amount of manpower for maybe 5-10% of your Userbase.
Don´t forget that a market-share of 10-15% for Linux games includes a ton of simple 2D games that also run on Android and similar mobile devices!
Best solution is always to run a Windows VM.. since CD/USB load have problems if the game needs a lot of your system resources.
And regarding Unity, even for a big player supporting Indie-projects.. there is just 200+ games as far as I know, which shows there is still not much backup for Linux systems. Unity has a native Unity editor by now, but it´s like always - if those 2 people leave the company, nothing will happen again for a long while
Best solution is always to run a Windows VM
Best solution is always to run a native Linux program.
Most of us, based on my readings, don't and won't have a Windows disk or whatever, because we don't want to reboot, or install all the basic stuff on another OS, while we spend all the rest of our time on the main OS Linux. It's also a 'political' choice.
ie, based on 2300+ gamers, more than 65% say they don't dualboot
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/render_chart.php?id=350&type=stats
Linux gamers may be a small market share (depends on sources, like Steam with China included is less than 1%, but some indie devs reported almost 20% of Linux sales from their website), but it's active and growing (1% of several millions is still a lot).
Also, Linux gamers tend to report bugs and give more feedbacks than Windows users, and supporting more than one OS is good for code stability and strenght, as you have to double-check it.
As for MMOG, we don't have many choices, even if we do have some (Ryzom, Dead Maze, Project Gorgon, Tale of Toast, Shroud of Avatar, Wild Terra, Albion Online, Rogalia, Haven&Hearth...), so a good new MMOG will have more traction on Linux gamers than yet another tycoon game, or yet another RPG.
The more games on Linux, the more gamers will stay on Linux, not the other way around.
edited March 2018
haha.. very true, but the question stands, is it profitable enough?
I think all your points can be read in Unity forums for years.. but even Unity kept their Linux editor in beta state
Other companies still have little to no interest in Linux - even Mac OS is more interesting
(Blame my opinion on the fact that I´m working in the industry)
The big markets are consoles and mobiles these days.. and if you need at least 1 programmer for each plattform-port.. I´d always vote for Win ->mobiles ->consoles ...->.. others
And tbh I have a hard time seeing any big improvement using Linux.. Even Apple is just some nice design stuff, with some mediocre system. Ever been using Apple systems professionally? It´s a pain.. unless you´re a graphic artist ofc
Linux lost it´s momentum when only professional Linux distributions had what was needed for enterprises.
In the same time Windows build great server versions and a nice vm kernel
On the other hand, Windows came too late to Smartphones.. now Adroid everywhere
And for OS alternatives, SteamOS is also not that bad..
To sum it up, in that big picture Linux is just a minor force anymore.
Android is just a scaled back Linux...
So basically as of now Linux makes up:
Mobile Devices 70%+
Servers 93%+
The number of desktop/personal users has gone up from 2/3% to about 7% (and is climbing)
For an operating system that’s now quickly increasing its market share, and represents more than 7.6 million gamers worldwide, I think that’s a sufficient group to offer a native client to.
I don’t see how anyone in the mmorpg industry can ignore Linux users anymore. It’s the most sought after genre for millions of Linux gamers. The first company to offer s great game nativ to Linux is going to rule. No, Albion and SOTA are not great games.
I’d also be careful insinuating that somehow the industry standard is stepping away from Linux. More developers in multiple industries are offering commercial Linux software now, more than ever.
edited March 2018
@Nefarious No, you´re wrong. Maybe as a typical Linux user it appears to you this way, but at the end of the day Android is as far from Linux as other Unix systems
Regarding Linux only, my numbers are accurate and @Tchey was also right regarding the utmost displeasure of many Linux users to use a WIN VM.
I´d like to add, I´m not against building software for Linux, but with limited resources most Indie developers just can´t do it ;(
Another big problem lies ahead, once a company releases a Linux client, it is hard to maintain that client without heavy investments, because players expect a good service for the product. And Linux games get more problems than Win games in the first 6-12 months.<

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