[cod] Sorry have to vent, Modern Warfare 2 on the PC
Christian Gerbrandt
gerbra at gotadsl.co.uk
Mon Oct 19 14:24:06 EDT 2009
I just cancelled my pre-order for the Prestige edition on the PS3, and will
get DJ Hero instead ;)
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From: escapedturkey [mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com]
Sent: 19 October 2009 18:47
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Subject: Re: [cod] Sorry have to vent, Modern Warfare 2 on the PC
http://xreal-project.net/?page_id=35
http://xreal-project.net/?page_id=15
Notice the lighting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9K2jZkchM
schlup at bulletproofnerds.com wrote:
> I'm sorry but UrbanTerror is a pretty low end game, I for one wouldn't
> even waste my time downloading it because of the terrible graphics. Â
> It looks like CS 1.4 to be honest. Â Open source will never make a
> game that can compete with the big developers. Â Sorry to crush your
> dreams but I'm trying to be realistic. Â Look at America's
> Army...there was money behind that and it's still bad, not even in the
> same universe as
> CoD4 let alone MW2.
>
> -- Sent from my Palm Pre
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> escapedturkey wrote:
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> UrbanTerror started as a Quake 3 mod and is now complete open-source
> game thanks to Carmack releasing the Q3 engine source code. Nexiuz,
> Alien Arena, Tremulous, and Warsow are all fine examples of
> open-source projects that are complete games.
>
> http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=urbanterror
> http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=nexuiz
> http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=warsow
> http://dpmaster.deathmask.net/?game=tremulous
>
> Hopefully once the dust settles, considerations for alternative
> approaches come forth. In the meantime we are back to our regularly
> scheduled drama of the community begging for updates, patches, and
> fixes from companies.
>
> I guess it's just an odd sort of dream of mine to see the community
> entirely in charge of the FPS gaming world -- gaming meets the Linux
> philosophy.
>
> Caleb Stephens wrote:
>> Lets not forget, the only thing this strategy is going to do is sell
>
>> consoles and put GSP's and all of the fringe projects out of business
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>> long term. Not to mention data centers.
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>> This isn't IW's strategy. This wreaks of antitrust violation from
>> you
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>> know who. GSP's need to be up in arms.
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>> Open source is a great idea. But anyone care to guess how much it
>> costs
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>> to develop a game like COD4/MW2? We're consumers. Opensource will
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>> never provide that.
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>> MaydaX - great - where do we get pre-order cancellation numbers? -
>> good
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>> point re duplication, but accurate enough.
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>> Businesses that don't listen to their customers fail. Or should.
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>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:25 AM, escapedturkey
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>> <escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com
>> <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com>> wrote:
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>> Yes, I completely understand that we vote with our dollars.
>> That's
>
>> why I'm advocating we go the open-source route or support a
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>> developer / publisher that will support us back -- i.e. Valve's
>
>> Source engine. Begging Activision/IW seems a bit demeaning and
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>> giving them too much power. The communities need to lead our
>> hobby
>
>> not the corporations. Perhaps I'm not making my opinion clear. Sorry.
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>>
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>> Caleb Stephens wrote:
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>> Over reliance? This isn't about reliance. We vote with our
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>> dollars. Corporate strategy is measured in profitability.
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>> These petitions won't do anything other than give a head
>> count
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>> number showing the impact of this corp strategy.
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>>
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>> This is a huge petition w/ over 50K signatures already
>> collected
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>> (approx $3.5M of value zapped out of the entire supply chain):
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>> http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw
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>> It seems to be collecting 2k sigs per hour.
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>> We need a list to track all the lists. LOL
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>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, escapedturkey
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>> <escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com
>> <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com>
>> <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com
>> <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com>>> wrote:
>>
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>> *Stands up to podium*
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>> *Clears throat*
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>> *Drinks a sip of water*
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>>
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>> As far as petitions and ranting goes, I think as a
>> community
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>> we need
>
>> to show a bit of self-respect. All this pleading and
>> begging just
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>> shows an over reliance on a corporation's decision making
>> on the
>
>> state of our gaming experience. We need to re-focus this
>
>> energy into
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>> alternatives that will make us less dependent on the "suits"
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>> determining the direction of our favorite hobby.
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>> Does anyone else agree or am I alone in my opinion?
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>>
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>> *Stands down from podium*
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