Football Manager 14 coming to Linux

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Emphasis mine:

Hmm. So that happened earlier than I expected.

I am delighted to announce that #FM13 has just become the best selling game in the Football Manager series. Thank you so much for all your support!

So as promised, a snippet of #FM14 info. Before that though, please respect some rules :)

1)We won't be talking about features until much later in the year.

2) No release date is set. Not even a rough or estimated one.

3) Feature suggestions/requests should be posted athttp://community.sig...read.php/306914

So the promised snippet of #FM14 news. As well as being on Mac & Windows, it will also be on Linux. With crossplay. One price for all 3 - so if you have a Macbook, Windows laptop and Linux desktop (for example) you'll be able to play the game on each of those machines via Steam.

For the more technically minded, the flavour of Linux we'll be supporting it Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)

Source: https://www.facebook...151675889381948 (According to wikipedia he's the studio director at SI Games)

I'm well excited about this!

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It's good to see more game companies getting on board with Linux gaming. I don't play football manager sims myself, but still it'll be good to see.

I find it interesting that he used this line (emphasis mine)...

For the more technically minded, the flavour of Linux we'll be supporting it Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)

Why is that only aimed at technically minded folk :p?

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Steam seems to be making money off of Linux.

Sure if you don't include all the development costs and simply lump them in with the general steam development costs and put them under the windows header in the budget they do ;)

And it's not simply about making money either. If it costs a company a conservative 4 million to port a triple A game to linux, and they somehow manage to make more than that. they're not going to be happy making 200k, 500k, they might be "satisfied" with 1 million. but if there's a significant return they won't spend the money, and today chances are there won't be a return.

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Great news, now if we can get WOW, Sim City, Fifa 14 and the other popular games onto linux then more users could switch.

If WoW ran natively under linux I would definitely have more of a reason to switch, Right now I use linux a lot in VM but as WoW and a couple other apps have to be emulated I don't run it natively.

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