[ut3] Official release date

[Matthias Bach]

Hi!

On Friday 06 February 2009 17:57:02 Sir Brizz wrote:
> And for those of you whining about how you bought the game and haven't
> played it because there is no Linux client, sorry but maybe you should
> have waited to buy it until there actually was the only thing you were
> buying it for? That seems like the practical thing to do in any
> situation.

You are missing the point. When I ordered the game there had been a statement 
by Epic that there would be a Linux-Installer on disc, as it had been with 
2K4. Later they said it wouldn't be on disk, but available on the day of 
release. Therefore, as I kind of like to have nice game boxes that I can show 
of, I did not bother to cancel my preorder. The problem is that I trusted Epic 
to keep to their promises.

> Did you buy Prey the day it came out hoping that Ryan Gordon
> would release a Linux binary for it, too?

No I didn't, because nobody promised that Prey would be ported. When it 
finally was ported this was a pleasent surprise.

> If you want to be a thrifty
> consumer, then be thrifty. And if you aren't thrifty, don't whine that
> you made a mistake and try to blame it on Epic or anyone else. You don't
> have anyone to blame but yourselves.

Maybe I have, but then it is not for expecting Epic to make a port, but for 
trusting Epic to deliver the software I ordered.

> Personally, I'm sure a Linux binary will eventually come out for UT3 and
> when it does I will probably use it.

Maybe it will, after all it's already supposed to be done. The real question 
is, will their still body to play against. Will the engine still be something 
competitive to base your mods on? By the time it will probably take one could 
just as well start writing an own engine ...

Regards,
Matthias
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