[ut3] Hello Mrs. Epic, can Ryan come out to play?

[Majic]

Dear Ryan,
Roses are blue,
Violets are red,
I'm crap with colors,
But wicked in bed,
So give me a port,
and I'll put out,
I love your work,
can haz UT3 now?

^ Yes, my rhyming sucks.

I was just wondering if there is any more news you can share with us? It's a
big depressing listening to most of the people on this list whine about how
long they've waited (which I'm about to do).  Right now the games with the
best graphics and gameplay on Linux are UT2004, Quake 4, Enemy Territory:
Quake Wars, and Sauerbraten.  UT2004 is old and smells of fish (though I
spent many a summer on third-party maps fragging hundreds with the
hellbender side-gunner and SPMA).  Quake 4 has known vulnerabilities when
receiving possibly malicious data from the server host--as noted by the
Gentoo Linux bug tracker: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194607.
Quake Wars actually appears to be safe, but it's another quake that lacks
good physics or UT3's level of graphical brilliance to make it's replay
value all that great--or any of my Windows friends jealous.  Sauerbraten is
also one of those games that feels fun at first, but lacks something novel
that would have made it a repeat offender on my list of games that wreck a
productive schedule for the day...  What I'm trying to say is that Linux
really needs a game its users can stand by and be proud of for at least 5
years, it worked beautifully for UT2004.  We want great graphics, we want
phenomenal physics, we want something other than a game wrapped around a
recycled Quake engine (Tremulus, OpenArena, Nexuiz, World of Padman, ...).
If there's anything at all you can say to keep us happy, please do share it.
:\  Even an "ohai" would be nice, most of us aren't sure if you still check
this list...  This sounds a bit mean, like I'm accusing you of not caring...
but when the Linux server became available, things did look good for a few
weeks.  More than 3 months later it feels like it was a solemn goodbye and
the best we can hope to do is host the games for our Windows friends.
 Bleh...  this message is pretty unorganized and written in a hurry, but I
hope the point was made...

Faithful Fan,

Jonathon
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