[ut3] Official release date

[Luiz Gustavo Angelo]

dude, can't you see how critical this is to customers ?


pirate first, buy later...just if you really, really like the game...


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sir Brizz <sir.brizz at gmail.com> wrote:

>  For what? They didn't market UT3 as having Linux binaries included or
> available.
>
> The problem here is that Epic never guaranteed anything. I appreciate you
> wanting brand new boxes or whatever your case may be, however that doesn't
> change the fact that you bought something that didn't include the sole thing
> you bought it for. Can you imagine, taking this same thing to a more
> terrible and surely less appropriate analogy, if you bought a car because
> someone said it had GPS in it, never test drove it, and realized after
> purchasing it that it didn't have GPS in it? Would you blame the person who
> told you or yourself for not looking into it more?
>
> I understand that people wanted and were expecting and (possibly) promised
> Linux binaries and are upset, but, frankly, you DON'T have anyone to blame
> but yourself if you paid the money for it already. Did Epic make you spend
> that money? YOU were encouraged by what they said, YOU made a decision, and
> YOU spent the money.
>
> Brizz
>
>
> On 2/6/09 10:14 AM, Luiz Gustavo Angelo wrote:
>
> 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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