Some Linux Love Would Be Appreciated <3 <3 <3

[Sector7-21291]

So I’ve installed linux for my gamedev journey and will never ever go back to windows, it’s too good. Therefore I’d really love to see a linux client for overwatch. It’s definitely playable with lutris/wine on ubuntu (it does reach a high amount of fps and runs as smooth as on windows), but every second to third game it crashes. Mostly if I restart after each game (which I’m only doing in comp) I don’t run into crashes, but it’s a bit annoying and being able to just play without having to restart and compile shaders after each game would be so much better

Maybe people who’d love to see a linux version could mention that here as well I’d even buy the linux version again so I can enjoy it a bit better

LINUX LOVE

[Kaedi-11739]

Unfortunately they have zero plans to bring Blizzard games to Linux at this time. Details:

@BillWarnecke

Hey there! While many of us on the development team love Linux we are not currently looking at adding native support.

Dealing with the code changes required to support another platform is one challenge. Outside of the Overwatch code itself we would have to work with internal and external teams to update libraries we depend on. Tools like the Battle.net desktop client would also require changes.

On top of all of the above we’d have to split our QA time to make sure we put the same level of quality and polish into the Linux version as we do for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox one… and this has to happen for every patch we put out.

We learned with death match to never say never, but for right now native Linux support isn’t a focus for the team.

Cheers!

[Dagastino-1649]

I’m also playing on Linux and find it thoroughly enjoyable with some minor headaches. It would be nice to see it get supported. I suffer from DC’s but that just might be on my end. I can’t go back to windows at all.