[ut3] Client?

[Shawn Vega]

Yeah but tuxgames.com is charging $60.00 for it when amazon.com is charging
$17.99 for it.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Eric Jackman <eric at polycypher.com> wrote:

> The lesson should be to pre-order from the proper retailers.  If you
> purchased the game from tuxgames.com you wouldn't have been charged yet,
> you wouldn't have a useless game on your shelf, and epic wouldn't think
> that your purchase of UT3 as a completed transaction. An incomplete
> transaction is potentially market pressure. Providing that the developer
> (Epic in this case not Ryan) cares.
>
> --Eric Jackman
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 12:06 +0000, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 12:57 +0100 schrieb Julian Hofmann:
> > > I pre-ordered 2 copies (over 100€), one for me, one for a friend --
> > > who
> > > doesn't want to have it for obvious reasons. Still I will be happy
> > > once
> > > it comes out.
> > I had a bit of luck there. I nearly pre-ordered doom3, but i was too
> > chaotic ;). Then the game launched, I had no pre-ordered version, but I
> > realized that there was no linux version either. So I waited for the
> > linux client to come out. Once it was out, I got the game, and it WAS
> > much cheaper.
> >
> > This way I learned to never pre-order games. I just got prey right now
> > for 5,50€. Ok, the fullversion linux client isn't released yet, but I
> > doubt it will drop much lower. (the 5,50 included 2,50 shipping).
> >
> > So hope you guys have learned the lesson: NEVER pre-order games (if you
> > intend to play on linux). even if there is first day linux support,
> > you'd only loose a couple of days
> > >
>
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Shawn Vega
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