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Originally Posted by nepcker
I've never heard of, or used any MS products for Linux. Same for Apple. I wonder when these big companies will start noticing Linux.
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Why would any company want to support its rival in any way, unless there is something profitable for them (in a long run) in doing it. Business.
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Originally Posted by nepcker
Who's developing it -- EA and microsoft, right? EA is one of the ms-paid company. That's why they use DX. As for WoW, it was released for the mac too, and at the same time the Windows version was released. I'm playing WoW on Mac OS X. So I presume World Of Warcraft is an OpenGL game.
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EA is the biggest multiplatfotm company , it makes games for all consoles, i see no reason for them to spend manpower for developing a version compatible with any OS which has very little user base. PC gaming piracy is everywhere, what will happen when mac users pirate, what will be the nubmer of ppl left who will really buy the game? the number will be still way small then legit game buyers on windows platform.
Besides EA is the biggest publisher to be tamed as someone's b1tch.
WOW is all online nature, no piracy can be done and no similar shady stuff can be done , so any more users from other OS will be the
true number of buyers for their game, so it perfectly makes sense for them to go multiplatform.
Directx must really be having something good which makes the biggest opengl supporting 'id software' to praise it.