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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>“I'm sure Ryan is working hard, as he is the hardest Linux
game programmer known to mankind. but whatever the holdup is, as a
community, it would be nice to have 'some' information.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Pushing this to the other side of the community as well, as it needs
to be spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I would love to know exactly what the problem is… So that
we as a UT playing community (and not just a UT playing Linux community) could
put pressure on whoever is holding this up, much like people are coming
together against TrendMicro with their silliness. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It’s frustrating as a server administrator that we have
been treated in the manner that we have, as player in the manner that we have,
as a Linux user in the manner that we have. I’m sad to say, I feel that
as a whole community, we’ve been “handed a giant shit sandwich, and
we’re all gonna have to take a bite.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><br>
The failures of this release, killed it before it ever really got started. The
sad thing is, I honestly think it could have come close to replacing UT99…
It’s actually fun to play - when you can find a server, when you can find
players, when you can find decent maps…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Andrew King<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kingster @ <a href="http://www.unrealplayground.com">www.unrealplayground.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Kevin Podbielniak
[mailto:k.podbielniak@gmail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ut3@icculus.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ut3] customer satisfaction...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I have been sitting back since
October 12, when the Windows demo client was released. I remember this
day perfectly as my company asked me to resign that night.<br>
<br>
I've stayed a member of this list, as well as the UT3 Admin list the whole
time, waiting for the release of the linux client. With no job, I
pre-ordered and picked up the game in November (as a b-day gift for myself), in
hopes the linux client would be released. <br>
<br>
Exactly 4 months later, my UT3 copy sits in a filing cabinet, still in the bag
from EB Games, receipt, shrink wrap and all.<br>
<br>
I even went so far as to install a second hard drive in my computer in hopes to
put Windows on it to at least install and enjoy what I bought, but after I
finished installing/updating and patching windows, I wasn't even interested in
playing any more.<br>
<br>
Day after day my inbox will fill up with email from this and the Admin list,
and the only reason I stay on them is the hopes to hear "Linux demo (or
full at this point I don't care) UT3 client is found 'here'". But
that's not the case.<br>
<br>
I'm sure Ryan is working hard, as he is the hardest Linux game programmer known
to mankind. but whatever the holdup is, as a community, it would be nice
to have 'some' information.<br>
<br>
Things we saw while waiting for the release of UT3 Linux:<br>
<br>
1) Writers Guild strike and conclusion.<br>
2) HD DVD/Blu Ray format war is about over<br>
3) Frontlines Fuel of War being advertised on WWE Monday Night Raw
(powered by Unreal engine)<br>
4) Hades freezing over. It went from 80 degrees to below freezing
in a day here<br>
5) more information on DNF was released<br>
<br>
I will still sit and wait for the linux client, why? Because I can save
up more money for a new gaming rig, and pass my current one to my
girlfriend. :)<br>
<br>
--k<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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