[bf1942] Here it is - Act Now - 476 sig's so far. Outstanding work, but we have got to get it HIGHER!

[DLinkOZ]

Also, as sad as it is look at the life span of the games these days.  I
doubt they're worried about the longevity because in a year they'll have
another good title to replace it.

I agree, dev support of a game is excellent (Look at Valve and HalfLife, the
game's 4-ish years old and still heavily supported... Eric from Valve is a
regular on the linux mailing list and they're still churning out new
features and updates) but high turnover rate in favor of the next popular
game seems to be EA's running bet.  I just wouldn't expect much to be done
in regards to the petition.  Would probably take many, many thousands more
signatures before anyone with any amount of clout at EA even noticed it.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin J. Anderson" <lestat at counter-strike.net>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Here it is - Act Now - 476 sig's so far. Outstanding
work, but we have got to get it HIGHER!


>
>
> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: DLinkOZ [mailto:dlinkoz at oesm.org]
> ->Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:58 PM
> ->To: bf1942 at icculus.org
> ->Subject: Re: [bf1942] Here it is - Act Now - 476 sig's so far.
> ->Outstanding work, but we have got to get it HIGHER!
> ->
> ->
> ->What's exactly why?  So they can spend more money by hiring more
> ->Linux devs
> ->and deviate from their established business model?  I don't
> ->understand your
> ->point (honestly, what's "exactly why"?).
> ->
>
> I imagine that he feels for bf1942 to actually continue to succeed and
> continue to grow, that can't happen w/o quality dedicated linux server
> support.   I think personally ryan has done a great job.   I do think he
> could use a little more support from ea/dice.  He also seems to be doing a
> lot of other projects in parallel, so I am not suprised its taking a bit
to
> get a version out.
>
> patience is a virtue imho
>
> kev
>
>