[cod] MW3 dedicated servers confirmed ... what about linux?

[Morpheus]

The wine+codwaw was only temporary, due to delay in the binaries 
delivery after much-needed patches (the first use of the cod4 engine by 
treyarch was far from ideal if you remember well). And I am a linux 
lover, especially on servers.

Why run a linux VM and then a windows VM, can(t you run a windows VM 
directly on Solaris ?

I think they have looked at the MW2 situation : aside from being lazy at 
supporting the dedicated part, they should have seen that even 
"not-wanting-to-pay" players have found a way in MW2 to play, so it's 
not worth saving a little money and get customers angry.

I think it's a perfect example of what can happen when so many people 
rant at the head when they're not happy. If linux binaries are confirmed 
too, yeehaaah. But just only with free-to-run dedicated servers 
announcement, I'm already happy. Not to the point of pre-order, but it's 
a far better future than not buying it at all (that was my previous 
statement, seeing the cod elite crap coming, and no news about servers). 
And it's a sign that PC gaming get a little love again.

Le 24/09/2011 14:47, Marco Padovan a écrit :
> Sure, there will might be a way to run it on sun solaris with a linux 
> VM in it with a windows VM in it (like a matrioska)
>
> Anyway TF2 (the most played FPS multiplayer currently?) is a good 
> example: IIRC there are more linux servers compared to windows servers.
> Additionally high end competitions are played only on linux servers.
>
> Additionally linux servers allows users to put online more servers for 
> lower price (no windows license needed) = more servers availability.
>
> If you really ran cod5 within wine (as I did) you will for sure 
> remember the incredible memory leaks that were happening using that 
> combination (wine + codwaw) just after 24hours of gameserver uptime.
>
> Anyway I'm not here trying to convince you why linux is better to host 
> *servers* (this is a list dedicated to linux servers) but I'm here 
> asking if there there's any news about linux binaries.
>
> I'm asking this because I think every 
> gameserverprovider/clan/"multigaming paying for it's own hardware" 
> needs to plan their "business" and decide which games they need to 
> push and promote and which other games they have to "discredit" in 
> order to drive the users to the games they think are more 
> "profitable"/"cheap to maintain" (running on linux is one of the key 
> indexes IMHO).
>
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