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

[Marco Padovan]

ryan is supporting us... but should we really support IW?
shouldn't we push the users to stay on cod4 (and possibly do not buy cod6)
untill US are ready (ready = linux binaries available)?

If we keep following their choices we will end up with having not linux
binaries at all :(

Actually we are rejecting many games that runs on windows only... and I
personally do not care if others providers are running and selling them
(thanks to tcadmin or things like that) from windows machines... I just do
not want to support software house that cannot give us good tools to get the
servers online.......

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Oliver Warburton <olly at inx-gaming.co.uk>wrote:

> 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
>
> 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>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>
>> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:01 PM
>> To: 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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