[cod] CoD:WAW... still nothing on linux front...

[James Landi]

Every time I'm at an CoD event (IW or Treyarch and even over at EA for 
MOH) I jump up on my soap box and let them know they need to think about 
the lin.... I mean LINUX bits before the game ships. 

I'm told every time it will be different this time but it never is.

I point their community managers to this list, to the my forums and 
anywhere else there is talk about dedicated servers.  I ask for them to 
at least give us an official reply, even a one line "we're working on 
the Linux bits give us a couple more weeks" but they state it's not 
"news worthy" and what seems to me can't be bothered.

TBH I feel we're lucky to even get Linux bits now a days but hey I guess 
they don't want to compete with CoD 4 and their number of servers 
(mostly Linux based)............

-Jim Landi
Rudedog
FPSadmin.com




Caleb Stephens wrote:
> Wow! Botched!  I was listening to I think last weeks Bashandslash 
> round table, and one of the fellas said that he thought WaW would be 
> dead if they just didn't get in the server redirect in by Christmas.  
> I'd tend to agree with that.
>
> The linux port is just as valuable IMO.  In that same roundtable, 
> someone made the comment that the number of servers online was far 
> lower than COD4s at the same time in the release schedule.  But nobody 
> mentioned the Linux port not being out for WaW lol.  Had the linux 
> bins been out, we probably would have had at least 5 servers up.  
> that's just one clan ... extrapolate that out ...
>
> What can we do as a community to influence IW to develop their servers 
> on Linux as they test and develop COD6, and then have native Linux 
> support right out of the gate? (and then they can perhaps work on the 
> Windows port to be released a month or two after game launch?)
>
> Am I the only one that thinks this is a no-brainier?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:51 AM, James Landi <jim at landi.net 
> <mailto:jim at landi.net>> wrote:
>
>     We (Jock, PSTjoker, Garetjax and myself) had Josh (the community
>     manager for Treyarch) last night (Bashandslash.com round table).
>      When asked about a patch he said, not sure but I would guess
>     after the holidays as everyone is on vacation now or soon.
>
>     We also brought up the linux bits and was told they are between
>     Ryan and Activision QA (ryan fixing things as Act finds bugs).  if
>     you put 1 and 1 together you can see that it may take the 1.2
>     patch for the linux bits to be released.  Thus after the new years.
>
>     Again take this with a grain of salt, as it's not a so called
>     official word but a speculative response from someone at Treyarch
>     NOT WORKING on the game (code wise) so to speak.
>
>     -Jim Landi
>     Rudedog
>     FPSadmin.com
>
>     John Kennington wrote:
>
>         You see, that is the question.  If he patched to 1.2, then it
>         will be delayed until after Jan 1.  If he didn't then ATVI is
>         on vacation and the patch will not be released until they get
>         back.
>
>         On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:31 AM, evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>> <evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>            they can delay the 1.2 path to the 2015 ... I do not care...
>
>            I'm just waiting a linux dedicated binary :|
>
>            Did ryan ported directly the 1.2 so we will have to wait
>         till the
>            1.2 will be officially released? :|
>
>            John Kennington ha scritto:
>
>                There is a rumor floating around, I saw it at pbbans, that
>                patch 1.2 has been delayed until after Jan 1, 09.  It seems
>                that everyone is taking vacation.  I wonder if they
>         know what
>                they have done.
>
>                John
>
>                On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:24 AM,
>         evolutioncrazy at gmail.com <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>
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>                <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>>> <evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>
>                <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
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>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>
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>                <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>         <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>>>> wrote:
>
>                   What's the problem with the QA team?
>
>                   wasn't the quality good enough? :(
>
>
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