[bf1942] Hello?

[Stefan Engbersen]

Better do you best, otherwise you can forget about the applepie :)
I appreciate your effort, andreas. I am just stating my opinion to the 
strategy of the Dice board in general, which
I think is completely wrong, but eh you probably already noticed that :)
Keep it up though.

Best Regards,

Stefan aka stx
Clanbase.com


Andreas Fredriksson wrote:

>An update; I have dev tasks to try to get the unix server ready for
>release now. Don't give up just yet.
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>// Andreas 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stefan Engbersen [mailto:stonex at freebsd.nl] 
>Sent: den 10 januari 2005 17:44
>To: bf1942 at icculus.org
>Subject: Re: [bf1942] Hello?
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>Not my theory, just stating my opinion. And what happened to BF42 in the
>beginning is exactly my point, they know they made a mistake by not
>developing a BF42 linuxserver from the beginning, in fact I think it
>wasn't even dice who made the first unstable bf42 linuxservers and they
>are making the same mistake again.
>Till now there are no plans for a linuxserver for BF2, like Andreas
>said, so god knows when we'll get one? Again when the game is already a
>year old? (first well stable enough release).
>Point is also servercompanies might suffer from this, many refuse to
>place Win32 servers, simply because its a securityrisk and it takes more
>work to administrate in general. So the scenario will happen again, that
>BF2 servers will be extremely expensive (like bf42 in the beginning)
>because there is not as much competition as with linuxservers on the
>market.
>Also the goodminded linux administrators are taken the opportunity to
>get themselves into the market when the game is released and the
>Micro$oft minded people are given the advantage.
>In my opinion, Dice gets totally no credits for BF2 if they handle their
>strategy like this. Sorry :)
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>Best Regards,
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>Stefan
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>>In the beginning of bf42 there were no linux server either and most of
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>>us know the difficulties (and not only on the server-side) this game 
>>had to master but it stood strong in the community because of it's 
>>unique gameplay. For bf42 the linux server was announced from the 
>>beginning and it came soon after the release (ok the first versions 
>>were not that brilliant as it is now but it was a step in the right 
>>direction after all). So even if there is no linux server on the 
>>release date, there will be one soon after. There are enough people 
>>who host windows-based servers to bridge the short wait for the linux 
>>server.
>>So please stop telling your armageddon-like chaos theories and wait 
>>for the bf2 release (which isn't even exactly determined). DICE Sweden
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>>forever! :)
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>>regards
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>>Sebastian
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