i don't think i'm alone when i say i've grown pretty disenchanted with this franchise - and its not so much WaW that did it, but the series of events that have happened between the release of CoD2 and now.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:35 AM, James Landi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@landi.net">jim@landi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's my understanding, that most GSPs run Linux to reduce the cost of their backend hardware by not having to purchase a MS lic for each box. and by the marginal performance and stability increase you get with Linux - sorry guys it's not what it use to be. We can also add in the benefits of security. Granted both OSs are insecure in the hands of novice sys admin. <br>
Running Windows under wine defeats all that. However I'm afraid to say we may have to get use to this type of business practice. Any major GSP should deploy both OSs under their organization now a days.<br>
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Lets be real, most end users are more concerned with getting a server on day one and it remaining up without any issues. The GSP is concerned with keeping customers happy and making the most profit while keeping overhead as low as possible.<br>
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I'm in no way against Linux and prefer it for my servers (both game and web) but do you think Treyarch / IW / Activision has that high on their priority list? If anything this has all showed (time and time again) that as a GSP you can not count on a dev/pub to release linux bits in a timely fashion no matter how much they promise. Thus you have to have a couple windows boxes ready for windows only bit deployment. Hell the bigger issues in my mind is non dedicated bits and why we have to upload the full install to our remote boxes (you bigger GSPs sit in the same room - damn you :-) )<br>
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The real kicker here is the lack of communications to the people that support the backend of the PC game without any real or official support from the dev/pub. In the long run, if someone from Treyarch kept us up to date on what the hell is going on, these types of communications would be limited and maybe we would be somewhat compassionate towards their situations, if any.<br>
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escapedturkey wrote:<br>
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I only run native Linux binaries *nose in air* ;-)<br>
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I am running COD5 on Ubuntu Hardy with wine.. The CPU is laugthing about it. So i dont need the bins at all.<br>
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PS: If they released i'm turning to the bins...<br>
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or the horrible code from treyarch<br>
*scnr* :-)<br>
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Georgecooldude schrieb:<br>
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I think we all agree the lack of a release shows how poor the senior<br>
management at activision are. they clearly don't understand a major<br>
part of their business.<br>
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On 1/13/09, John Kennington <<a href="mailto:jwkennington@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwkennington@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Since they are still working on patch 1.2 (as per <a href="http://callofduty.com" target="_blank">callofduty.com</a> today) I<br>
doubt it will be any time soon.<br>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Andrej Parovel <<a href="mailto:aparovel@gmail.com" target="_blank">aparovel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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yes yes yes. We can't wait for Linux version for the new one Call of Duty<br>
:) Also for Activision it will be better I think if they expand their game<br>
and support more servers as these will mean more client playing it.<br>
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Ryan, can you provide a status update of when the Linux files will be<br>
released? If I understood correctly, you released them to Activision<br>
back<br>
in November. As it is now mid January, I would hope you've received some<br>
sort of feedback by now and/or can get some sort of update for us. You<br>
have<br>
more pull with them then we do. Your assistance in this matter is<br>
greatly<br>
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