Tux Games Update
November 22nd, 2001 by CrusaderTux Games’Michael Simms fired in the following:
Tux Games now has the following new-in-stocks and new pre-releases foryour pleasureHeavy MetalF.A.K.K.2 is now in stock
CreaturesInternet Edition is now listed for pre-order
Return toCastle Wolfenstein is now listed for pre-order
Return toCastle Wolfenstein Strategy Guide is now listed for pre-orderTux Games will report each copy of RTCW sold by us as a Linuxpurchase. We would appreciate it if you all helped to ensure we donthave to go to id Software and say ‘ummmm, we sold five Linux copies’.That would be embarrassing, and we wouldnt be happy, and I doubt itwould help convince them to make more Linux games available.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I just ordered it! Can’t wait to get it.
Come on everyone, let’s let them all know we’re serious about gaming in Linux!
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
because they pretty much stole my money. i preordered some games because i wanted to do like others talk about and supporting linux companies… so anyways when smac and tribes came out they ended up doing a bundle deal and i didn’t get a refund even though they said they were going to for customers in my situation. so i waited for another game to be released and use it as credit… no games came out for a long time and i emailed them asking if i could just get my money and i had lost the voucher #… you think they would keep records of who they owe money to… oh well, i haven’t bought a game since then. (note i bought every loki game before this and talked others into doing the same)
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
untile linux binary until realesed.
i dont play games on windows and i dont like windows.
I won’t buy it from Tux Games.. i buy from a canadian store
or any other local (and physical) store.
Sience ther no linux box, it dosent matter.
idsoftware should monitor ftp usage to chek if
linux is use to plays ther games!
btw this game look verry nice. don’t make me
wait too long…
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I want to play a single player demo before I buy.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I want this game now : ) If I buy the Windows version and run it under wine, will the linux binaries be a free download when they come out, or do I get shafted and have to purchase another version ??
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Does it give you any advantages?
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Here’s what you get
http://chronoworx.dhs.org/~terracon/wolfenstein/wolftin.jpg
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Is that the only way? I mean C’mon they have to me more then one way besides Tux games right? I want to show ID software that we are out there but at the sametime I don’t want to wait the extra days order from the UK. If I have no choice but to get it from Tux games then so be it.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
forget it, I’m in Mexico and I’m going to go to BestBuy, McAllenTX… i dont like to “import” tru mail order or whatever…
is already expensive crap
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
If id were really interested in os numbers, im sure it wouldn’t be too hard to append a W,M or L to the end of your wolf cd key when its sent for online verification (might be some privacy issues :-/).
I think the biggest hurdle to getting hybrid Win/Mac/Linux CD’s is the support factor, most Linux ports have been usupported to date (except Loki ones (we are talking hyrids here anyway) – but even they dropped Q3:A support a few months back).
Once you stick a Linux binary on a CD theres a consumer mindset that you will fully support that method of running that game.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I will not pay 600 SEK for a computer game.
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Why is Quake 3 still so high at TuxGames? Does the customer get something that doesn’t come with the $10 version at Amazon and EB?
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I see happypenguin.org is still down. Anyone know what happened
to it? Is it ever coming back up?
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
Wolf costs $54 at Media Play, and from Tux I get it for $49 plus $9 s/h. So its $5 more, big deal. I’d rather support my linux store since I don’t even have a windoze partition anymore ( my wife still has one tho :-)
I have just a *monster* linux box, it has dual PII-450s, a GeForce2MX, a SBLive, pure SCSI, I have bought every EBGames $9 bargain linux game, I have Q123, all mission packs, Terminus, and I play Half-Life, Unreal Gold, and Fallout using Wine. Schmidt… who needs windows… I have more games than I can play ( I have a day job )
Later!
The_Dougster
November 30th, -0001 at 12:00 am
I ordered one, because I beleive in linux as a gaming platform. (And for anything else too).
I myself are in the gaming biz, and I know for a fact that the only way to make this happen, is if enough people buy the games for starters.