OT: Smarter people do exist

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:23:24PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Yeah, well...get back to me when they (re)start porting -real- games to
> linux.  That's a large part of its desktop failing for me and many other
> people.  The only reason some people (not me--I don't mind 'doze on the
> desktop) keep 'doze around is because games aren't readily (and/or
> officially) ported to linux.  If the game companies would just port them,
> they could make more money, and linux would get a tremendous boost.  That,
> and Adobe releasing a native Photoshop would be a huge plus.
> 
> The last -real- game I can remember them porting linux was Quake 2.  They
> ported the Half-Life server, but the client was impossible as VALVe took a
> huge shortcut and wrote the UI in MFC, which is just not portable, period.
> I know Descent was eventually released for linux by Parallax.  But all this
> stuff was many moons ago.  They all really need to try again.  Sometimes I
> think Blizzard Games alone would be a huge booster for linux--and their
> games are -really- popular in just about every circle, including amongst us
> linux folks.

Write them a letter.

On real paper.

Hand signed.

Get all your gamer friends to do the same.

If 100 game companies get 1000 paper letters each in the mail politely
requesting Linux native versions of their games, I guarantee you, the
first leak on Slashdot won't take a month.

Cheers,
-- jra
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