[ut3] Official release date

[Sam C-D]

"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?"
you are correct, this analogy is not quite right, its more like if you are
told that is has a GPS, then when you get close to driving it, the dealer
admits that there isn't one in that car, but he will mail you one in a weeks
time when he gets more in.
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Sam


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:29 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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