Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus Rift

Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by Crito on Monday June 22, 2015 @01:50PM (#9759975)

Games with a critical mass of followers will receive better support from open source communities than they ever will from companies.

Try to get Quake 3 support today. Then try to get support for ioquake3.

Alternatively, try to get support for Transport Tycoon. Now try to get support for OpenTTD.

It's not a matter of "game or not game". We have these examples of formerly commercial games for which commercial support no longer exists, but for which open source community support is plentiful.

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Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by johnchristopher on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:06AM (#9765092)

But the critical mass needed to get that kind of support is in the Quake 3 range... I seriously doubt many games are going to reach that threshold and prove that `à la linux' support can work. Especially on the long term (ie: further along the line than the game launch window).

I am of the opinion that Quake3 is an exception, not the rule.

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Re:Cryengine 3.8.1 Adds Support for Linux, OpenGL and Oculus... by MrDosu on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:11AM (#9777058)

Ofc Quake3 is exceptional, everyone who says otherwise is a heretic.

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