[ut3] ut3 officially dead

[Keith Z-G]

They've apparently ported the engine to WebOS even, now.  So, UT3 may
be forever held back by Gamespy or whatever it actually is, but if
their next game doesn't come out with a Linux version I call
shenanigans . . .

. . . okay, well, Bulletstorm is coming out soon and they don't even
care enough about PCs to make a Windows demo ("In other news, PC
gamers are grumpy about this" quothe the man formerly known as
CliffyB) so any OSX or Linux version seems damn unlikely, and Gears of
War 3 is a Microsoft exclusive where they cancelled even the Windows
version for GoW2, and Ryan himself has mentioned it seems that
Microsoft has a policy of never doing anything involving Linux.  So .
. . interesting.

It would seem that the only way that many companies feel comfortable
with making games for Linux is when Linux is re-packaged as a product
(ie. WebOS, and likely soon Android with Honeycomb and all the Tegra 2
phones/tables), that's kindof pathetic on their parts but, in terms of
sociology and corporate psychology, rather interesting.

On a more practical note, since WebOS games have been shown to be so
easily ported to normal Linux platforms (thanks to WebOS smartly using
Linux standards; obviously the requirement for running WebOS binaries
is to be on ARM, but that's getting easier and easier these days) we
might end up being able to run future Epic games on 'desktop' Linux
after all. If any of us still care.

Alright, I'm going to go back to playing Braid, ported to Linux by our
protagonist Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon, who's been prolific enough lately
that I really don't buy Epic's insinuations that he couldn't get the
job done for UT3 . . .

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Arturo Hidalgo <azure.rise at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steam is just a distribution platform, the game still uses Gamespy (I hate
> it) for multiplayer.
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> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Zato-2 <zato.two at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Did they really _switch_ to steam? Because in this case all non-steam
>> versions should've stopped working... They still use gamespy imo,
>> steam is just another distribution method.
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