AW: [bf1942] Should i Wine or should i go ?

[Darth BoBo]

This is pretty off-topic, so if that bothers you, please stop reading now.

Now, this is a very similar situation to when you've had a problem at 
your average retail outlet. There comes a time at which you have to ask 
yourself:
1. How important is this?
2. If they were to actually come out and say, "Go to hell", what could 
you do?
3. What is their incentive to help you?
4. What is their ability to resolve your situation?

Since I've been in the situation where someone has actually said, "Go 
away, we are not going to help you", I sincerely appreciate a company 
that is willing to continue to build and support their product. Dice's 
recent decision to become more involved in the linux dedicated server 
should help us a great deal by giving us alot more access to development 
resources. However, I don't for one second think this list was ever 
intended to be a general bitch session. It was and is a forum for linux 
admins to --help-- the developers build us a better moustrap. Whining 
about timetables will do nothing but give Dice and others a bad taste 
for linux in the future. Do I think it's silly to launch a multiplayer 
game without a solid linux dedicated server? Yes. Is Dice trying to 
correct this mistake? Yes. If you think you can do better, then please 
do so. But, please respect the efforts being used to our benefit and 
quit whining. If you are unhappy with the product, feel free to vent 
directly to Dice, I'm sure they have contact information on the web 
somewhere. Bitching at developers won't help us in the least.

Rick
Network Administrator - CARFAX, Inc


Christian Lahme wrote:

>I can understand both sides. But it´s time to get a solution. Not in two
>weeks or three. We´ve been waiting a long time for a linux ded. A very
>long time and nothing really  happend. We´re sponsoring germans
>Dcnation.de-Team and their servers are awful lagging for a long time. Is
>this a support for BF? No, i think it´s bad sign to the customers.
>
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Steven Hartland [mailto:killing at barrysworld.com] 
>Gesendet: Montag, 26. Mai 2003 15:30
>An: bf1942 at icculus.org
>Betreff: Re: [bf1942] Should i Wine or should i go ?
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>Its so surprising how people just don't seem to understand this.
>
>    Steve / K
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Fredriksson, Andreas" <andreas.fredriksson at dice.se>
>To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
>Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:13 PM
>Subject: RE: [bf1942] Should i Wine or should i go ?
>
>
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>When we develop a patch, almost half of time time is spent fixing up
>little bugs that the test labs find. Client bugs would ruin the show for
>everyone and there's no point in releasing a dedicated server if there
>are no clients available.
>
>That's the situation, try to live with it.
>
>// Andreas (deep in the rendering code)
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