Comments on: Neverwinter Nights Client Update

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Tue, 21 Jan 2003 06:48:21 +0000

how good is the ATI radeon 9700 drivers for linux? is it possible to play tribes2 and simular games on it?

By: Shark

Shark — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:41:41 +0000

I had never really planned on getting NWN in the first place.. However, considering the number of Linux-people who seems to be wanting to drop the idea of buying it altogether, maybe I really should get it :-)

Bioware tech:
“There, finished! Putting Linux binary up for download now!”
Waiting…
Waiting…
Waiting…
“Woot! Someone downloaded it!”
Waiting…
Waiting…
(A few days pass by)
“Yay! Another download! Wait.. It’s from the same IP.. Darn!”
Waiting…

;-)

By: theoddone33

theoddone33 — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:58:43 +0000

What the CRAP are all of you people talking about?

You’re not going to have to download the game. It says right there in the update!

“Playing game will require data resources, which can be copied from a Win32 installation.”

Could this be any clearer?!

I don’t know how you people came to interpret this to mean that you’ll have to download 800M of data just to play the game on Linux. At the most you’ll have to download 5M of wine. Inconvenient? Yes, of course. End of the world? Hardly.

By:

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:48:22 +0000

When the NWN Linux client is released, we can buy the game and play it. In the meantime, we can always buy and play other Linux games. There’s no need for this big fuss. How about we instead complain about that AvP port not having multiplayer support?

By:

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:47:42 +0000

i’m HIGHLY CONSIDERING! movin-on …and I’m quite the patient type but I dont take kindly to being lied to and then on top of that having to wait months and months only to be told crap! and more lies and more waiting only to find out we can’t access the CD’s ??..o-kie!! this is okay to whom ?..how the hell was it going to be a cross-platform release??..I say do Not LET BIOWARE off the hook on this one guys…no way baby! they need to fry on this one..linux/mac users ‘deserve better!’….

..like whose behind this boat?..

I”m playing other linux games and will no longer back this idiotic company..first time shame on you second time shame on me….

and not only that but what about 56k users ?? ( I”m not one but we gotta think of our brethren! )… and there no doubt are some still out there..

how large will the ‘resource’ downloads be ???

guys remember something else..its NOT JUST LINUX USERS mad as hell about this..its MAC users too!

just check out the bioware mac user thread and you’ll see!!

I say we all have fun playing UT2003 albeit even THEY haven’t done linux RIGHT either!..there is STILL NO indication the damn game even runs in linux on unrealtournament2003.com….

the only company that has done us right from beginning that I know of? is IDsoftware ie: quake series..for obvious reasons sure! but that game is more enticing by the moment..my time is valuable to waste on continued broken promises I dont know about you….

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By: theoddone33

theoddone33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2003 14:02:09 +0000

The way you all treat Bioware sucks.

You’re gonna say “The way Bioware treated us sucks!” but you’re wrong. They overestimated how much work they’d need to put into a Linux version, that is all. They promised a Linux client and they are making good on that promise even though they probably have already lost money on it.

Bioware isn’t a bunch of idiots, unless you consider spending this much time on charity for a bunch of ingrates dumb.

By:

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:20:30 +0000

Ask TuxGames to whip up an installer like they did for RTCW and then you don’t have to download the 1GB+ of data.

Problem solved.

By: Catonga

Catonga — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:56:52 +0000

IMO they should bundle the Linux version with the Expansion, so we don’t have to download 1 GB game data.

Or they should release a Special Edition:
Windows Version + Linux Version + Expansion in
one package.

By: jensend

jensend — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:09:10 +0000

If they really can’t install the stuff from the release CD, then they should publish Linux cds. However, they ought to be able to find programs to extract just about anything off their cds- for example, somebody else pointed out an installshield extractor which works under wine and comes with source, i6comp.

No movie player but will be resolved post-release- what? Isn’t Bink working? They shouldn’t release without it and fix it later (though they could go beta without it).

By:

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:02:36 +0000

[i]Glad to see the expansions will be supported and working.[/i]

Well.. that is if we get the program anytime soon. So far , it’s been a fiasco, so I really don’t expect them to do anything new.