[cod] number of linux vs windows servers?

[John Kennington]

They why don't they do it for all their games?  I am not so sure that is the
case.  I believe that they, just like IW, consider multiplayer as an
"add-on" to a game.  They get their revenue from selling single player
games.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Georgecooldude <georgecooldude at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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