Talk to Svartalf about what "rights" you have when it gets down to games... you would be surprised
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Originally posted by Dragonlord View PostTalk to Svartalf about what "rights" you have when it gets down to games... you would be surprised
Keep solidly in mind that what's "right" and what the law says doesn't always meet up with each other. More often than not these days, they never see a glimpse let alone come in the same room.
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Talk to Svartalf about what "rights" you have when it gets down to games... you would be surprised
Former Cedega users know how poorly transgaming supports the platform and how misleading the advertising is which is illegal in some jurisdictions.
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Not in software. You do not have the right ( for any software ) that it runs correctly on your system. So you can not hold reliable a company if a software does not work for one reason or the other. I don't think you can uphold such a claim in court especially since EULAs tend to explicitly state this circumstance although not explicitly required.
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Assuming the courts choose to let the EULA stand: not guaranteed, they have been thrown out before, very few of them have really been tested in court, and the suspicion in some jurisdictions is that the EULA will be held to have no legal value at all. Even if the EULA stands, that won't excuse a false advertising claim that it "supports" linux. If they claim it, it is extremely unlikely that any fair court will permit them to not support linux on the grounds that the EULA provides no guarantees.
In Ireland at least, there is a whole raft of legislation which includes specifically:
1) Goods must be as advertised.
2) Goods must be of merchantable quality.
It is unlikely any EULA can over ride those two requirements, certainly none in the normal form in software (installation click through) would be allowed to.
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Originally posted by yogi_berra View PostThis isn't about "rights" this is about a company falsely advertising its product, ignoring its paying customers (they offer a service and advertise support for said service) and the people that don't realize that this what to expect from the company on this platform.
Former Cedega users know how poorly transgaming supports the platform and how misleading the advertising is which is illegal in some jurisdictions.
The courts will tell you that they're still supporting it as agreed upon by your TOS as the Eve Online people point you to the better compatibility layer to run the game that they provided to you on your still supported OS.
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Originally posted by RobbieAB View Post1) Goods must be as advertised.
2) Goods must be of merchantable quality.
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Back then when Transgaming launched WineX IIRC they implied that they might be willing to aid companies actually make ports of their game titles, while providing the means to run games unmodified on Linux (later MacOS, as well). I only knew of a few titles they did actually help porting, but for MacOS PPC rather than Linux. I remember that at the time it actually sounded like really good idea to have a company providing the infrastructure to run games unmodified on Linux, but at the same time be willing and able to port game natively on Linux. I guess that at some point the latter was not possible or no company actually showed interest in them porting their games to Linux. Pity.
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Unless the games work on a common code basis ( same game engine with forks not modified too much ) then it would work but the way it is currently in game development each game is a new endeavor. I don't envy Svartalf and LGP for their porting work. I personally hate porting. Wrapping your head around foreign code, often more or less spaghetti with strange coding rules and then getting that fixed to run on a system it had been never intended to run on... "that's no easy thing" ( to quote Garret ).
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