[ut3] Official release date

[Kingster]

*THAT* was perfectly said, Kevin.

Unfortunately, for Epic, and the Linux community, even if they released the
client within 5 minutes of my sending this e-mail, they cannot save the
game, and the community continues to die.  I watch it on forum after forum.
There's just no hunger for the game anymore, and quite honestly, who cares
about it, really?  The impending release of whatever they decide to throw
over the wall, will temporarily inject some adrenaline into the failing
heart, but it certainly won't rejuvenate the patient.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Guillaume [mailto:kevin.guillaume at gmx.net] 
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:59 AM
To: ut3 at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [ut3] Official release date

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:37 -0700, Brizz Cardon wrote:
> Even if they said "Natural gas stations will be coming to your area
> soon"

That's only an analogy if that car manufacturer is also the one who
makes the gas stations. It *IS* Epic who makes the Linux binaries. (or
rather, not.)

Epic promised they would deliver a Linux client in the box. Now if we
can bring an analogy that's a little closer to the reality; Imagine they
had promised a Windows Client and a Linux client (just as they did), and
only delivered the /Linux/ client? Would there be *ANY QUESTION AT ALL*
that they failed to deliver as promised? Would anybody be telling the
Windows users who pre-ordered that they should have read the
non-existent box before they pre-ordered? No, I don't fscking think so.

Yes, you can argue economics, buying power, a scale that is orders of
magnitude greater, and the possible end of Epic itself in such a
scenario, but you *cannot* argue that as a matter of principle and as a
matter of fact, that they failed to deliver as promised and as
advertised.


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