[bf1942] when, oh tell us when

[Dave Stone]

Same here. Our clan has been waiting patiently but we've waited long enough.
I hate to say it but I no longer believe that a Linux server will ever be
released by EA. The game must have been out too long for them to care
anymore. I also hate to say that I'm so fed up I have no other choice but to
wipe my Linux off our server and install winblows. Even if we get another
Linux server what happens when the next patch comes out? Yea I know, "It's
Beta!". Well with EA it will always be. I'm going to stay on this list just
in case a miracle happens but it really doesn't look good and I've been
lying to myself waiting  for the official release way too long. Team
Fortress 2 will probably be out before EA releases a Linux server.

Thanks for trying Ryan. Too bad EA doesn't care.

-St0nE


----- Original Message -----
From: "Björn Krüger" <bk at dvdboard.de>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:30 AM
Subject: [bf1942] when, oh tell us when


> Hi everyone,
>
> this  should not be a rant, allthough I'd really like to express a bit
> of  disappointment  in  this  mail. I appreciate Ryan's work since the
> beginning,  and  admired  the  growing stability of "our" linux server
> since the very first beta has been announced and installed here.
>
> Nevertheless,  it  is  now  9  days that patch 1.31 is out.  9 days I
> haven't  been able to provide the service I agreed to offer to a clan.
> 9  days  they had to look for public servers to have their training or
> borrow  a  server  from  other  teams. 9 days the only servers able to
> provider bf42 services were windows boxes.
>
> I  really  think  EA  is  _NOT_  doing  enough  to support the IMO big
> community  of  linux  game  server  hosters.  I  know Ryan is the only
> developper  on  the  code,  and please understand I am not criticizing
> him  or  his  work. I have read his first email when the patch was out
> and it was like "oh, a new patch is out, nobody from EA told me". This
> is  unsatisfying  and  it  shows  EA's huge disrespect  for  us people
> offering  linux  servers. We are some "also running" server admins who
> are not taken serious.
>
> I   am   convinced  that  we  really  should  start  to  express  our
> disappointment  with  EA...  or  we  will  always stay behind official
> development  for  some  days... or weeks?
> Maybe EA just should learn a bit from Valve's halflife server to learn
> how  to  create  a  wide-spread  gaming  server. I remember that Valve
> needed some game server admin pressure at that time, too. It's time we
> get active, people.
>
> Ryan needs more support from EA.
> We need more support from EA.
>
> Thanks for reading this mail, your feedback is appreciated.
> I  know this has been offtopic on this list, but since we have nothing
> else to discuss, I hope you won't get upset.
>
> Bjoern
>