[prey] Prey demo works great!

Keith Zubot-Gephart keithzg at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 03:46:15 EST 2008


Oh, well, these days I would have tried to do something like that, or at least 
had I know a Linux client would some day arrive I would have held off on the 
purchase until it actually arrived so that my purchase would be part of the 
sales spike (as I'm planning/hoping to do for UT3).  This was literally over 
a year ago, though.  I do plan on playing online a bit, deathmatch can be fun 
at times and hopefully their master server will be informed of "oh, hey, 
another Linux client". 

In some ways I did buy the game as a vote for an engine which itself is quite 
portable, but it was mostly just an impulse purchase (right after I had built 
my brand-new computer) which I haven't touched too much since playing through 
the game once.  I'm not even certain if the partition that I have Windows on 
will boot anymore, heh (even Wine's weird inability to play Deus Ex on my 
main computer, despite working fine on other older PCs of mine, hasn't 
tempted me).

 My main hope here is that this port will be shown to be successful enough 
that for an eventual Prey 2 the devs consider Linux for launch; certainly I 
would have played the game more, and picked it up long before it had gone 
bargain-bin, if there had been a Linux client at the time.

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 23:46:16 Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Keith Zubot-Gephart escribió:
> > I managed to pick my copy up a long time ago, just because I was tempted
> > into it by seeing the game for $8.99 . . . while the normal game was
> > still on shelves for something like $29.99.  This was, you see, the
> > Limited Edition, with the artbook and little figurines in the tin box. 
> > Not really worth paying more for, but definitely worth paying less ;)
>
> Interesting... I got it off TuxGames not because of the price, but
> because I wanted to make it count as a *Linux* sale, not a Windows sale
> (I could have got it much, much cheaper locally, but seriously what's
> the point if I don't make these bucks count as a Linux generated sale?,
> and what best way than to buy off the main Linux game seller site around
> the Net!)
>
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