Comments on: TransGaming Announces Shipment of Riddle of the Sphinx II: The Omega Stone

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By:

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 23:05:32 +0000

they forgot to include the linux port on the cd, so here it is:

#!/bin/sh
winex “Riddle of the Sphinx II.exe”

By:

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:48:12 +0000

I probably would not have heard about it otherwise. Frankly, I like to know these sorts of things for those times when I am explaining why Transgaming is not a Linux friendly company. It’s not relivent to me because it is a macos game. It’s relivent because these people tell us that they are our friends while they crater the potential for a Linux game market.

I would be a little less hard on them if they were at least legally capable of delievering on their promise to release the source if they reached their subscription goal. I would rather they just drop their windows emulation product and focus on Mac ports. They would do less harm to Linux that way.

By: theoddone33

theoddone33 — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:56:32 +0000

I recommend removing this news post as it does not reflect well on the LG staff.

By: rafaMEX

rafaMEX — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:34:11 +0000

Fuck you.

By:

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:06:01 +0000

Transgaming was not intending to stir shit, they just forgot to remove the Linux news contacts from the list of people to send the presss release to.

By: chunky

chunky — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:08:14 +0000

At least they’re only taking your money and doing completely irrelevant things with it, as opposed to suing you.

I hope you subscribers keep your subscription going – If you’re not careful, Transgaming will follow in SCO’s footsteps and actually begin taking ex-customers to court – You never downloaded the tg source, right?

At least GavrielS wears cooler hats than Stowell

Gary (-;
-1, Flamebait. For me
-7, Flamebait. For the stupid news post from the same guy that brought you “3 Years of Transgaming Happiness & Light”

By: chunky

chunky — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:59:12 +0000

They take people’s money in a service-contract kind of way, so that in the future they can do more stuff for them [that being what service-contract type things are].

Then they send press releases to those exact people saying “Hi! We just ported another game to a system you aren’t using!”

That’s not even funny. It’s halfway between tasteless, and incendiary.

I mean – there’s a happy medium between failing to keep promises, and actively stabbing people in the face. Damn glad I never subscribed to them.

Compare:
“We promised to release source if people gave us money, but then we gave lots of that money to macromedia and signed a deal that says we can’t release source”
And
“Oh – you gave us money to support you, but instead here’s a MacOSX port”

Nah, I guess you’re right. Both of those qualify as stabbing people in the face.

Gary (-;

By:

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:50:59 +0000

Either come clean about Transgaming (ie, no thinly disguised, indignant missives implying an anti-Linux stance) and turn it into posting policy, or post the stories without the undertones. It’s getting a little childish now.

I think all anyone is asking for – at least I am – is that Linuxgames.com be *consistent*.

By:

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:43:41 +0000

Why post a “news” articles on MacOS X game release ?
What’s next, updates on the progress of Halo 2 on XBox ? I can’t wait to read all about it !