[ut3] Official release date

[Luiz Gustavo Angelo]

Epic could be sued by this, couldn't ??

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Matthias Bach <marix at marix.org> wrote:

> 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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