[cod] number of linux vs windows servers?

[Ollie C. - Frrsh Support]

Quote:Sparker
" I still know people that only bought the game for MP and have never 
tried the Single Player."

I'm one of those people. Although I have tried the single player in cod4 
and I do like :D

RockFreak

Sparker wrote:
>
> Actually – The multiplayer aspect of the games makes them a whole lot 
> more.
>
> Think about all the things we as gamers do for the companies.
>
> We provide the servers – We convince our other friends and family to 
> buy the games.
>
> This is how they make serious money… People like me who convince 75 
> members of a clan to go out and buy the game because I think it is great.
>
> So in all aspects when I am convincing people to go buy a game it is 
> not because of the Single player – It is because of the Multiplayer… 
> Single player is cool and all – but in order to game with my friend I 
> have to play MP -
>
> If they were simply focused on selling a Single Player game – They 
> would incorporate COOP.
>
> So I truly believe that MP is a like a whole other department for 
> them… They still make a killing either way.
>
> I still know people that only bought the game for MP and have never 
> tried the Single Player.
>
> Later
> Sparker
>
> *From:* John Kennington [mailto:jwkennington at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:03 AM
> *To:* cod at icculus.org
> *Subject:* Re: [cod] number of linux vs windows servers?
>
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto:drnuke at wirdemo.se>] Sent: Monday, 30 June 2008 12:26 a.m.
>     To: cod at icculus.org <mailto: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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