People are already running CoH on Linux and have been since shortly after launch (if not during beta).
It's still highly doubtful that they'll ever list it as a supported Operating System.
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If you're looking for a native client, I seriously doubt that's in the cards. At least for the near future. Since running the game under wine is effective (which was my assessment a few years ago), there's even less incentive to develop one.
Steam's problem with Windows 8 is that MS's marketplace will directly compete with it, hence their desire to move onto other platforms. Nothing that's provided with Windows 8 will compete with CoH.
Also, CoH can run on relatively old hardware (for several values of old). People with higher end machines will probably be apathetic to the performance gain, if any.
That said ... I'd love having a native linux client...
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ighlight=linux
With that - or even just WINE - available, I wouldn't expect a native Linux port. (That and size of market, investment, etc.)
Just read article on how a game was converted from windows d3d to opengl,and under linux it runs faster than under windows. It was done by Steam as a cya if windows 8 is going to be the turkey rumors say it is going to be.I know with wine or other such you can emulate windows.
So how about a native linux client?
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