Bioware's Dragon Age Petition for Linux?

[Svartalf]

You know, Bioware had nothing to do with NWN 2. Frankly, I didn't like the guys who did NWN 2 either. Now, I know you probably don't care about Bioware nor for any commercial company out there but you should at least give them some form of respect. I've played NWN and all the expansion on Linux (Thanks to them) and I'm honestly impressed that they still released patches on the Linux client a year or so back.

I was more referring to the attitude espoused by the thread and how they just simply cut it off at 10 screens- PERIOD. Just when the discussion was getting interesting. I give respect where respect is due- I DO happen to work on a consultant basis for a commercial company producing games for Linux. I'm waiting for the first title to go gold and I'm about to probably be in a position to go back mostly full-time on the other two games I've got responsibility over and shove them out the door with the same quality that you've all come to expect from them.

As for respect- they've got it. It's just that they did something mildly disrespectful to us there; and the respect they have from me doesn't get them any slack on that regard. If they did what they did in that thread to the Windows crowd they'd be in trouble. But they'll do it to us. Think about it.

I may have an indifferent attitude towards people begging for a Linux client. You should read that other thread here I posted waaay back.

Which thread would that be? I must not have seen that one.

But I believe Bioware is a different case. The way I see it is there's no Linux port, but it's not impossible that it comes down some time soon. That's good enough for me because I feel it's coming in the future.

Don't be sure of it. We were "lucky" to get NWN the way we got it.

There could have been an official version of it but the BoD of both Bioware and Atari nixed the deal in the end. When I hear, "you're going to miss out..." it means to me they're not giving it even a single thought in all honesty- and in a way that's not likely to have a version offered, official or unofficial, for Linux.

On a side note: You caused quite a stir there with Stanley. I'm not going to pick sides here but it just seemed like the two of you went nowhere. :P

Heh... There's a reason for why I posted the way I did.

They get kudos for doing NWN and at least giving out a way to play it on Linux in the end. I'm ever grateful. It's why we were trying to have a discussion about DA- I was keen on the idea of a possible new game from them.

They don't get kudos for the game Stanley was playing. He was saying that you'll miss out if we don't make a Linux version and you won't buy- and it's a great game.

Sorry, I don't play that game- EVER. I don't give a flip by and of itself if it's a great game- if it's not on a platform or system I either choose to have or already have, being a great game means NOTHING to me. Trying to convince me to change my position there by way of that it's going to be a great game and I'll miss out is garbage. It's not giving me the respect that one in that position should be giving to a potential customer- so why should I be all respectful to them with that sort of attitude? We get the same treatment from Blizzard and a bunch of other companies- just because they did NWN doesn't get them off the hook when they go about it all that way.

If they'd have said, "we don't know", or "it's not going to happen because of decision 'X'" it'd have gotten them the respectful "Fine. Thanks for NWN, but I'll pass on DA because I'm not interested because of no Linux support at all..." instead of what happened.

In the end, it was all okay in the discussion and the later on threads that got spawned (there's one with 7 pages going right now...). They got the point I was trying to make and they openly said "we don't know" instead of the "You're going to miss out..." that Stanley led with.

[niniendowarrior]

Heh... THAT thread. Shame that they closed off the thread at 10. They "got their input" (Not likely, really...) but they've learned from the ATARI NWN2 thread fiasco to axe these threads quick- whether or not they're going to provide support or not.

Stanley Woo's comments in the thread lend to the impression that there's not likely to be one unless the thread changed their minds about things.

You know, Bioware had nothing to do with NWN 2. Frankly, I didn't like the guys who did NWN 2 either. Now, I know you probably don't care about Bioware nor for any commercial company out there but you should at least give them some form of respect. I've played NWN and all the expansion on Linux (Thanks to them) and I'm honestly impressed that they still released patches on the Linux client a year or so back.

I may have an indifferent attitude towards people begging for a Linux client. You should read that other thread here I posted waaay back. But I believe Bioware is a different case. The way I see it is there's no Linux port, but it's not impossible that it comes down some time soon. That's good enough for me because I feel it's coming in the future.

On a side note: You caused quite a stir there with Stanley. I'm not going to pick sides here but it just seemed like the two of you went nowhere. :P

[Svartalf]

Heh... THAT thread. Shame that they closed off the thread at 10. They "got their input" (Not likely, really...) but they've learned from the ATARI NWN2 thread fiasco to axe these threads quick- whether or not they're going to provide support or not.

Stanley Woo's comments in the thread lend to the impression that there's not likely to be one unless the thread changed their minds about things.

[niniendowarrior]

I was checking out Bioware's forum for their new in development RPG, Dragon Age and I stumbled upon this Linux petition thread. Bioware hasn't announced their publisher so much of things are still under wraps. This thread was closed in Nov. 2006 but I thought that Bioware seems to be listening.

http://forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=494004&forum=84&sp=135

And that's 10 pages, so this gets closed now. Thanks for the input it's been passed along to the Dev team.

I have tremendous respect for Bioware. Them releasing NWN Linux clients mean they are more than capable to porting Dragon Age and have porting Linux clients as an option. I am further delighted at the news that at least they have heard the cry for one.

Does this guarantee a Linux client? Hell no, but it's a step to that direction.