[ut3] Client?

[Eric Jackman]

True but if you pre-ordered it you would have paid $50-60 up front
anyway just to have it collect dust on the shelf.

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 03:04 -0800, Shawn Vega wrote:
> 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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