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

[escapedturkey]

IW creates the game. Of course we should support them and Ryan.

Marco Padovan wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <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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