FM on Linux

Please please please can you officially support Linux, or at least Wine?

It would be great if you could be one of the first to adopt Linux as a major platform... I'd buy then and you would get a lot of press coverage and good PR from it!

wat u mean

wat u mean

Some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

It all looks a bit technical for me!

yea thankyou

I recall a couple of threads where users have played the game under Wine without much trouble.

I've said this each time that it's brought up, but there are no plans for us to support Linux now, or in the forseeable future.

Testing the game on the operating systems that the game is available on already takes a huge amount of investment and time. Adding more operating systems (and there are many variations of Linux) into this process, plus the post release support that would be needed, is simply not a viable option as a business or as a developer, let alone the actual cost to convert and develop.

There are lots of ways to get the game working for those on Linux OS', and they are well documented, so the option is there for those users, just like they have the option whether to use Linux or any of it's flavours. However, we do not offer support for those options, as we haven't tested them, nor are we about to.

A quote from Miles, the last time this was brought up.

Thanks for the quick replies esp Neji.

I suppose this answer was inevitable for the time being, but unless enough people ask, it'll never get done - I just wanted to show my support and hope that a few years down the line there will be enough support to make it happen.

Cheers.

As someone who works for a software company that has recently had to make big changes to start selling our software on Linux I can only agree with Miles' statement - it isn't something you undertake on a whim for a small market!