In the past, the problem of most games was that the single player mode was the only stuff you could do with your game, and you finish the all the levels within a week or two. The multiplayers aspect of the game is one the stuff that give the value of your game. Who would still playing Counter Strike today if that was a single player game ? Multiplayers is not just an addon, it's almost what make your game a success or not. 10 years after the launch of halflife, the game still run out of stock ... do know any other example ?<br>
<br>They're sell their games becauses of multiplayers aspect, and if you sell a game where there are no server under linux, you will never have enought servers accross the world for all the people who buy the game. It just that Activision and many other don't get that point.<br>
<br>My two cents.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, John Kennington <<a href="mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com">jwkennington@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
They why don't they do it for all their games? I am not so sure that is the case. I believe that they, just like IW, consider multiplayer as an "add-on" to a game. They get their revenue from selling single player games.<div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Georgecooldude <<a href="mailto:georgecooldude@gmail.com" target="_blank">georgecooldude@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Its in Activision's interests to continue to develop a linux client seeing as we the community provide the servers which they generate revenue from by providing a multiplayer aspect of the game.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John Kennington <<a href="mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwkennington@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Then why do they care about linux binaries at all? If they don't develop for it, why bother to "QA" the binary? Even a blind man could see the reason. <rant off>. I know, not a place for the rants, but every time a patch is released we go through the same old s***. We run the games and ATVI knows it. They really don't care what we think, want, or need. We will run them with what they give us. Simple as that.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:44 AM, |T-OC|Morpheus|:.Web <<a href="mailto:morpheus@clantoc.org" target="_blank">morpheus@clantoc.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Because from the point of view of IW (and Activision guys who are for sure MS-paid ^^) linux is not the platform they develop for, and so they don't support it. It's pretty miraculous that we have linux binaries for our prefered games, and it's not because of Activision interests :(
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<div>Look at the lack of servers last night i'd guess there are more linux vs windows!<br><br>Why didn't they just wait for the linux patch to be done then release them all together?!?!?!?<br><br>Rock Freak<br><br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If the delays keep up we'll be switching all our Linux servers to Windows ones........ which I really don't want to do. But screaming customers is not what we want!<br>
<br>Have we got any news.......<br><br>Craig<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Peter Wirdemo [mailto:<a href="mailto:drnuke@wirdemo.se" target="_blank">drnuke@wirdemo.se</a>] Sent: Monday, 30 June 2008 12:26 a.m.<br>
To: <a href="mailto:cod@icculus.org" target="_blank">cod@icculus.org</a><br>Subject: [cod] number of linux vs windows servers?<br><br>Hello!<br><br>About that the linux patches always are a bit late...<br><br>Anyone know about any statistics of linux vs windows callofduty servers?<br>
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