Comments on: John Carmack on Linux ports

By: ThoreauHD

ThoreauHD — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:10:16 +0000

I’ll bet my left nut that every one of ID’s games will have a linux server so their shit doesn’t crash. How’s that for justice.

By: dorpsgek

dorpsgek — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:01:22 +0000

UT3 again

Maybe it can’t be released for what for reason, just say it, people do understand a lot.

By: dorpsgek

dorpsgek — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:08:21 +0000

darjeeling

You are absolutely right about UT3.

It’s even not playable with wine, which could be an excuse…….

By: darjeeling

darjeeling — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:13:17 +0000

Kind of sad news, but then again, they always kind of had that policy and never really “supported” Linux, except for their Linux version of Quake 3, but other than that they just released binaries for the Linux version to use with the files from the Windows CD/DVD.
What worries me here is the remark with NVIDIA and ATI. As long as they release binaries, I’m fine with it, they don’t have to offer support for libraries or shared objects or anything.

The frequency that these news appear with in the past month also kind of worries me.
I’m really looking forward to Rage since I’ve first seen the Trailer, but if they won’t release it for Linux that’d be quite bad.
Sure, if developers would stop supporting Linux, community solutions would appear, but that’d take quite a while.
Non commerical project are also capable of nice graphics and so on. Just take a look at 0A.D. amazing graphics, it looks better than any RTS I’ve seen to this date.

I’m also still waiting for UT3, I was stupid enough to believe in their word when they said that the Linux binaries did not quite make it on the DVD but that they’d release them right after the game shipped…
I preordered UT3 back then and well, what shall I say, still no Linux client.

By: liamdawe

liamdawe — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:35:24 +0000

Oops commented on wrong bit, please delete this and my above comment!

By: liamdawe

liamdawe — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:34:19 +0000

I just purchased the collection, the prices are good and the demo worked flawlessly on 64bit ubuntu 9.04 and so i thought why not and treated myself!

By: peispud

peispud — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:40:37 +0000

It seems to me that Id has taken the decision to abandon Linux awhile ago. I would imagine we have seen the end of them sharing their old code as well. There is still some profit to be made from the Linux community, and with Carmack lacking the backbone to man up and tell it as it is, we soon be left playing nothing but second or third generation games. First UT3, then this. The funny thing is, the more greedy developers get, the more gaming starts to suck. Not that profit is a bad thing, but when it trumps all else we are left with very pretty games with no soul. With a few exceptions I get more of a thrill playing Thief2 fan missions or DeusEx than I get from wasting my money on what now passes as gaming. Like Warren Spector before him, John Carmack will go from an innovator and visionary to some one merely turning out garbage sequels for cash.

By: caibbor

caibbor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:53:56 +0000

Wow, id software is so rich that they can’t “afford” to port this to Linux.

poor guys, they must not be driving ferarri’s, make tripple digit sallaries, and have fat pensions waiting for them to retire on.

poor guys. let’s all shed a tear.

By: ThoreauHD

ThoreauHD — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:16:19 +0000

Even Carmack know ATI sucks.

By: daturan

daturan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:50:39 +0000

many of my favorite games and mods are built from ID’s offerings so this news is a bit concerning,,, but the community keeps up to speed, so even if tech5 never sees the light of Linux I’m fine with the next version of alien-arena,, dark-places, etc. Community driven games, have been way more exciting then most of the slurry the gaming industry has been producing for a few years now.