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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Actually – The multiplayer aspect of the games makes them
a whole lot more.<br>
<br>
Think about all the things we as gamers do for the companies. <br>
<br>
We provide the servers – We convince our other friends and family to buy
the games. <br>
<br>
This is how they make serious money… People like me who convince 75
members of a clan to go out and buy the game because I think it is great. <br>
<br>
So in all aspects when I am convincing people to go buy a game it is not
because of the Single player – It is because of the Multiplayer…
Single player is cool and all – but in order to game with my friend I
have to play MP - <br>
<br>
If they were simply focused on selling a Single Player game – They would
incorporate COOP.<br>
<br>
So I truly believe that MP is a like a whole other department for them… They
still make a killing either way. <br>
<br>
I still know people that only bought the game for MP and have never tried the
Single Player.<br>
<br>
Later<br>
Sparker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> John Kennington
[mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 29, 2008 8:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> cod@icculus.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cod] number of linux vs windows servers?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Georgecooldude <<a
href="mailto:georgecooldude@gmail.com">georgecooldude@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:48 PM, John Kennington <<a
href="mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwkennington@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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
:( <o:p></o:p></p>
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Ollie C. - Frrsh Support wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>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>
Craig Nimmo wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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>
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-----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>
<br>
/Peter<br>
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