Comments on: Microsoft to Buy BioWare

By:

Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:36:49 +0000

Interesting that the comments were edited after the thread was locked…

Read this:

http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=200481&forum=42

By: htaccess

htaccess — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:54:43 +0000

hi im posting this here cause I posted it to the submit news address and got no response:

Theres a new Massively Multiplayer First Person Shooter based on the gpl quake 2 engine, which is (not surprisingly gpl aswell) the whole game itself is gpl including the models, only the massively multiplayer bit is proprietary, and this one will only be $5/month.

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/03/04/2310210.shtml?tid=52
http://www.global-gaming.com/Dominion/

On the subject of stuff that should be posted here but isnt, the recent announcements about sony/ibm/butterfly.net and using grid tech for hosting mmogs should be posted aswell, this is relevent to linux gaming becaused the grid model as well as allowing server power to be scaled much better than with single servers, it also should alow clients on different platforms to seamlessly connect, ie linux clients have a much better chance of playing on this network than for instance the xbox live network. It also looks like it will be easier for samller developers to make use of this grid technology because they just build it in, and buy a small amount of capacity on the global grid for their game, and then once the game becomes more popular they can easily scale up their capacity, i can see more games like the atitd (recently featured) and the game above using this network.

http://butterfly.net/

For many articles on the grid gaming check out:

http://butterfly.net/buzz/index.html

oh and how does one apply to be able to post stories?

By:

Sun, 09 Mar 2003 20:13:41 +0000

Icculus, if you could, please please please put up a patch that allows for another month of play. Except for the two known defects, it worked perfectly for me… |-}}}

By:

Sat, 08 Mar 2003 02:43:50 +0000

Isn’t this the third or fourth time someone’s said that MS is buying out BW in an article or column? Probably everyone remembers those earlier articles, probably including some people at MS who wouldn’t know what the company is doing.

By:

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:22:54 +0000

all you all stop trolling here and go buy Rune damnit.

By:

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:17:00 +0000

http://www.gamasutra.com/gdc2003/features/20030306/brockington_03.htm

By:

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:35:36 +0000

Make me a bird, so I can fly faaahh- faah faah away fwom heya. ”

Heard from somewhere around their MCSE’s donut trolley:

“It’s taken me 2 years of telling people we’ve been making a linux client for these IP Nazi’s to notice us! What the hell are we doing wrong? >”

Maybe pretending to release a linux client was something to get MS’s attention for a buyout. We are a cancer you know. Sorta like building things are a natural disaster. But probably moreso like SCO pretending to invent Unix and call all of it’s linux developers morons. But, that’s another jagoff story.

From the bottom of my heart, BOware- You cheese dicks can all rot in hell :) Bitches. Teehee.

By: StarTux

StarTux — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:57:13 +0000

Gonna send them a rather informative e-mail later…They could and maybe should get sued over crap like this and for driving Alpha Troll into hiding :(.

StarTux

By:

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 17:35:46 +0000

http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=199422&forum=42

By:

Fri, 07 Mar 2003 15:54:23 +0000

This could be the real reason why we’ve not seen the Linux port yet.

I have my doubts that it will ever show up, actually.