First of all: I know that nothing I can say will change the fact that RO:O is going to be released through Steam.
Yesterday I knew about Tripwire's desition of releasing RO:O through Valve's Steam.. I've been a Linux user for 3 years now, and I got really dissappointed with that..
I had been playing RO for a long time, and I had always been very proud of it for it Linux support, and for it's incredible respectfull comunity.. I simply loved it.
Linux/mac users feel now that they are not important anymore from tripwire, since Steam will give them a lot of players, and they will not need to take into account such a low percentage as we are.
I think that running steam with wine/cedega is NOT an option for linux RO players, oppossed to what people may think.
Anyway, I've mounted some servers for other Steam games, and I know there's a client for linux (console) for updating the servers and fetching the games.. Maybe you could do something with this so we can use it as Steam Client (you should make linux binaries too.. and I guess that's the problem).
PD: I want to say that i'm happy that at least the hard work you've done for such a long time will be rewarded, you really diserve it.
PD2: Sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language .
Yesterday I knew about Tripwire's desition of releasing RO:O through Valve's Steam.. I've been a Linux user for 3 years now, and I got really dissappointed with that..
I had been playing RO for a long time, and I had always been very proud of it for it Linux support, and for it's incredible respectfull comunity.. I simply loved it.
Linux/mac users feel now that they are not important anymore from tripwire, since Steam will give them a lot of players, and they will not need to take into account such a low percentage as we are.
I think that running steam with wine/cedega is NOT an option for linux RO players, oppossed to what people may think.
Anyway, I've mounted some servers for other Steam games, and I know there's a client for linux (console) for updating the servers and fetching the games.. Maybe you could do something with this so we can use it as Steam Client (you should make linux binaries too.. and I guess that's the problem).
PD: I want to say that i'm happy that at least the hard work you've done for such a long time will be rewarded, you really diserve it.
PD2: Sorry for my bad english, it's not my native language .