On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Matthew Johnson wrote:

If everyone wrote into the distibutor's of games asking for these games to run on Linux, then they *will* take notice! Right now they think there is no demand...Hate saying this to the list so much (Ok if you do not play games..But do you know anyone who does??) but if we lose the Desktop then we lose everything.

I cannot wait for Neverwinter nights, I will buy it for sure :-). Who likes AD&D here?

Oh, the years I dedicated to that game. In college, I learned Excel over Winter break by designing an automated character generation sheet. All you entered was a race, gender and class(es). Everything else, including age and age modifiers were determined for you. The spreadsheet even enforced a minimum standard deviation in scores to ensure relative strengths and weaknesses of each character. I've never seen a computer game that was nearly as fun as a live game with other players and a human DM, though. Andrew Gould

So...That article that appeared on linux.com gave the wrong insight? What it gave me was an insight into the differences between the developer and the publisher seem to be at odds and that the sales data is not accurate. Quake 3 was and is a bad example, most fans would have bought this on Windows prior to the Linux release. To think that qukae 3 garners most of the market is wrong (I personally found it boring). Writing in does help, if they get enough then they will re-consider. I know this from my work, if enough people show an interest then they will do it! Sorry, but they will see those e-mails, the more the better :-). Matt On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 09:16:33 Jeremy Buchmann wrote:

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If everyone wrote into the distibutor's of games asking for these games to run on Linux, then they *will* take notice!

No, they really don't care what you write...they care about sales, period. Sales of Quake 3 on Linux have been weak and neither id or Loki is happy about it. 3D support in Linux sucks right now and they've found that it's much more difficult to support than Windows. I'm sorry, but installing the latest DirectX drivers is much easier than patching your kernel, recompiling it, compiling glx/Mesa and installing that as an Xfree module. Until kernel agp/Xfree 4.0 DRI stuff is all standard, 3D stuff will be pretty thin.

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Right now they think there is no demand...Hate saying this to the list so much (Ok if you do not play games..But do you know anyone who does??) but if we lose the Desktop then we lose everything.

Yeah...like all Linux desktop users are just going to give up one day and go back to Windows.

-- Jeremy [jeremy@wellsgaming.com]

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