[cod] number of linux vs windows servers?

[Georgecooldude]

Its in Activision's interests to continue to develop a linux client seeing
as we the community provide the servers which they generate revenue from by
providing a multiplayer aspect of the game.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John Kennington <jwkennington at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Then why do they care about linux binaries at all?  If they don't develop
> for it, why bother to "QA" the binary?  Even a blind man could see the
> reason.  <rant off>.  I know, not a place for the rants, but every time a
> patch is released we go through the same old s***.  We run the games and
> ATVI knows it.  They really don't care what we think, want, or need.  We
> will run them with what they give us.  Simple as that.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:44 AM, |T-OC|Morpheus|:.Web <
> morpheus at clantoc.org> wrote:
>
>> Because from the point of view of IW (and Activision guys who are for sure
>> MS-paid ^^)  linux is not the platform they develop for, and so they don't
>> support it. It's pretty miraculous that we have linux binaries for our
>> prefered games, and it's not because of Activision interests :(
>>
>>
>> Ollie C. - Frrsh Support wrote:
>>
>>>  Look at the lack of servers last night i'd guess there are more linux
>>> vs windows!
>>>
>>> Why didn't they just wait for the linux patch to be done then release
>>> them all together?!?!?!?
>>>
>>> Rock Freak
>>>
>>> Craig Nimmo wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the delays keep up we'll be switching all our Linux servers to
>>>> Windows ones........ which I really don't want to do. But screaming
>>>> customers is not what we want!
>>>>
>>>> Have we got any news.......
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Peter Wirdemo [mailto:drnuke at wirdemo.se] Sent: Monday, 30 June
>>>> 2008 12:26 a.m.
>>>> To: cod at icculus.org
>>>> Subject: [cod] number of linux vs windows servers?
>>>>
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> About that the linux patches always are a bit late...
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know about any statistics of linux vs windows callofduty servers?
>>>>
>>>> /Peter
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