[ut3] Phoronix: Epic Games Provides No Hope For UT3 On Linux

Keith Z-G keithzg at gmail.com
Thu May 20 17:36:00 EDT 2010


Ahhhh, I did not know that.  So few people cared about GoW for Windows
that I guess I just figured I hadn't heard about anything because well
hey, there are even fewer gamers on OSX than there are on Linux so . .
. yaknow.  And I had never actually heard that the OSX port of GoW
never happened, actually, but I guess my previous sentence explains
why I never noticed.



On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Arturo Hidalgo <azure.rise at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually they never released the OS X version of GoW even though they said
> they would.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Keith Z-G <keithzg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "There are no other reasons for its delay. Unfortunately, given the
>> lack of progress it seems unlikely the UT3 Linux client will ever be
>> completed.  - Steve"
>>
>> That sounds like bullshit right there.  We've seen screenshots, the
>> server came out, Ryan ported previous Unreal Engine titles, and hell
>> Ryan even got the chance to complete a port of Prey in the meantime
>> during all of this.  Furthermore, UT3 runs fine on the PS3 so it's
>> obviously not just a "oh, it's too tied to Direct3D" story.  GoW,
>> which is also UE3, was released for OSX and only not released for
>> Linux because well hey it's a Microsoft game you know they aren't
>> going to. Something else is going on other than technical difficulties
>> and Polge is outright lying about it, or has been told lies about it
>> that he's passing on.
>>
>> Honestly at this point I can't manage to care much about a UT3 client
>> coming out, but I'm deathly curious to find out what the backstory is
>> on all this.
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Ezekiel Grave
>> <ezekiel at ripmetopieces.net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:50:49AM +0400, Валерий wrote:
>> >> What a surprise :)
>> >>
>> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI1OA
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Valeriy
>> >
>> > Ugggghhhhhhh. Can't say I'm overly surprised - it's just continued
>> > heart-break and disgust.
>> > --
>> > ezekiel
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