Maybe Blizzard gets anything free from Microsoft if they don't publish their Linux WoW client. If I consider that 1 developer of NGD studios worked on their Linux client (game: Regnum online), I think it can't be that hard for Blizzard technically to make a linux client which works on most linux plattforms.
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Originally posted by Fenrin View PostMaybe Blizzard gets anything free from Microsoft if they don't publish their Linux WoW client. If I consider that 1 developer of NGD studios worked on their Linux client (game: Regnum online), I think it can't be that hard for Blizzard technically to make a linux client which works on most linux plattforms.
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Originally posted by yogi_berra View PostThanks for the obligatory wikipedia link showing that you failed to retain the relevant parts of the "will they port discussion" before Wolfenstein was released.
It is not an iD game, it is a Raven game using iD's IP and engine that were licensed for the game.
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There are SEVERAL things going on here...
1) They don't see the numbers as being enough to bother with. Without sales figures to go on, they have to buy into the weak stuff IDC and elsewhere give out and then extrapolate. Even though there's the liklihood of there "being enough money" in the lInux space, they don't have anything (yet!) to make it a concrete value to make a business proposition to do the rest of the work.
2) They don't have all that many Linux people in the company. Sam Lantiga's one of them, but he's not involved with the stuff we're discussing- and if they don't ask, typically you don't offer insights because it's easier to just do what they ask of you within a company that big.
3) Because of 1 and 2, they've not researched the current landscape for things and are going off of pretty old info. Because of that, they're unwilling to risk things on the maybes and ifs they've got in hand right now. We tell them something and there's enough of us to have them say we've got internal builds, but we can't support them so we can't give them to you. If they saw bigger figures, they'd research things and find out the things we know about the landscape on the systems. It's not at all hard to support most of the distributions out there- nothing like many studios have implied. The story's far removed from things.
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Originally posted by Svartalf View PostHeh... I don't think he actually cares if he's pushing a blown argument there, destroyed by his own "facts" he used to defend his position.
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