[cod] CoD modern warfare 2 - linux binaries...

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By doing this, aren't you afraid of a negative shift in service quality, 
as it's becoming usual that linux versions of games (particularly the 
last cod titles), are bugged down (mod.ff reference, custom maps, and 
others) ?

I mean, if a customer pay for a server at the game lauch day 
(theorically windows box), and use, say, custom maps on it; then, 3 
months later, choose for some reason to pay for another server (hope it 
will be linux box at that time), how will you take in account the fact 
that the maps he was used to play on won't work anymore because of 
"crappy" support (comment not related to Ryan's work) ? It must be 
quickly a pain to adapt to it...

Oliver Warburton a écrit :
> We took the decision around 3 months ago to port our entire backend to 
> add Windows compatibility. Linux will always remain our choice, but we 
> just have lost faith in the increasing lack of support from the 
> software houses for Linux server files (COD series is the tip of the 
> iceberg).
>
> I think we are very very lucky to have Ryan on our side, and I know we 
> all appreciate his efforts. Without him, would we have any support at 
> all? I doubt it..
>
> So when CODMW2 comes out, we'll be running it from Windows from day 
> one. At the end of the day, we can't afford to miss out on the 
> business. When new games come out, its the best moment of making some 
> money. If it does port over to Linux, then we'll run it from there.
>
>
> Oliver Warburton
> Managing Director
> INX-Network LTD
>
> INX-Gaming.com
> www.inx-gaming.com <http://www.inx-gaming.com>
>
> On 30 Sep 2009, at 17:15, Marco Padovan wrote:
>
>> Our commercial department proposed another solution:
>>
>> offer cod4 gameservers (on linux) at half of the price until cod6 
>> will be available on linux... once it will be the cod4 servers will 
>> be back at full price (and as usual users will be able to switch to 
>> any cod linux version they want)...
>>
>> will see what to do... but getting windows boxes up is a pain! :(
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM, JOKER-MOBILE 
>> <joker at mycallofduty.com <mailto:joker at mycallofduty.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     RudeDog from fpsadmin was at the IW community event (console) and
>>     did dpeak with Jason West about some PC things.
>>
>>     Get those windows boxes up guys
>>
>>     JOKER-MOBILE
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: Marco Padovan <evolutioncrazy at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:evolutioncrazy at gmail.com>>
>>     Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:01 PM
>>     To: cod at icculus.org <mailto:cod at icculus.org>
>>     Subject: [cod] CoD modern warfare 2 - linux binaries...
>>
>>     As usual a new episode of Call of duty is near...
>>
>>     As usual all us, game servers providers, do not have any
>>     news/announce about
>>     the possible release of linux binaries...
>>
>>     So nobody here still know if we need to get windows machines up
>>     on the first
>>     day or if we may just wait a few days more and come online
>>     directly with
>>     linux binaries...
>>
>>     To whom can we ask at least for some consideration so we can PLAN
>>     how to
>>     SUPPORT the game?
>>
>>     (an answer like: we need 2 more months after the game release to
>>     be able to
>>     support linux dedicated servers would be a good answer too... so
>>     we can make
>>     our choices (get windows machines up on the first day... or maybe
>>     make
>>     pressure on our clients/gamers/league admins so they keep playing
>>     cod4 and
>>     do the switch alltogheter once the linux bits are available....
>>     the point is
>>     that we need some consideration :'( )
>>
>>
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