Postal III On Linux Is Kaput For Now

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Postal III On Linux Is Kaput For Now

Last week I received a message from Vince Desi, the founder and CEO of Running With Scissors, concerning the Linux client for the soon-to-be-released Postal III game...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTAwMjE

[Detructor]

so...to make it clear, what Michael want's to say is: There'll be no Rage and no Postal III and no Source version for Linux. Ever. Everything else ist just for deh clickz.

[FireBurn]

Kaput implies brokenness what might be more accurate is stalled or perhaps vapourware

[Naib]

lolphoronix

maybe now you will not overhype stuff.
When it comes to games and phoronix this site is a joke, slightest hint of a linux client (or in quite a few cases over-stretching what rumours were heard) and phoronix peddles it as hard fact and even uses it to justify other past claims

for the last few years there has been soo many "news articles" or reference dropping to STEAM/SOURCE on linux, RAGE for linux PostalII for linux (with postalIII for linux being used as "evidence that STEAM/SOURCE coming to linux) and what do we have no

no STEAM, no RAGE, no PostalIII

just drop speculative reporting on gaming you suck and for 2+ years hopes have been raised. report FACT (yes this is fact, STEAM/SOURCE was never fact)
to be fair the root-cause of this is probably valve

STEAM/SOURCE for linux was a massive farce and a stretch of reality from Phoronix. RAGE requires steamworks so to some extent requires STEAM for linux, PostalIII requires SOURCE).


All comes downto poor reporting and gossip being peddled as fact by phoronix surrounding anything Valve related.

poor, piss poor

[DMJC]

To be fair to Phoronix, postal 3 did announce linux support early on, and the steam linux client leak was real. I think the UT3 pullout has really damaged linux as a gaming platform more than any other single event. The exception to that may be Blizzards decision to can the WoW port from being released. Frankly though I can't blame them. Linuxgamepublishing have shown how unprofessional they are with their server outages. Can you imagine if Blizzard had trusted them with World of Warcraft for support. How pissed would they have been with the Linux support site being down for 3-6 months!

[-gr00ve-]

Kaput is spelled kaputt with double t. Nevermind but if you use some strange foreign words check out that they are spelled correctly.

To the other topic with Linux and gaming is, the last time i felt that something was changing was back in the days when quake3test was released on Linux 2 weeks before the windows client. Students knocked my door and asked to help em out installing linux on their machines to play the game. Ahh good old times. But right now i couldn't care less, i enjoy playing rage right now on windows-steam and i will give it a try if they come up with a linux client.

Greetings.

[marakaid]

lolphoronix

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no STEAM, no RAGE, no PostalIII

just drop speculative reporting on gaming you suck and for 2+ years hopes have been raised. report FACT (yes this is fact, STEAM/SOURCE was never fact)
to be fair the root-cause of this is probably valve

STEAM/SOURCE for linux was a massive farce and a stretch of reality from Phoronix. RAGE requires steamworks so to some extent requires STEAM for linux, PostalIII requires SOURCE).


All comes downto poor reporting and gossip being peddled as fact by phoronix surrounding anything Valve related.

poor, piss poor

Don´t forget Unreal Tournament 3... as I said in the past, Phoronix is the linux equivalent of tabloids. Read this site for some gossip fun because is not worth for anything else.

[gcala]

...
for the last few years there has been soo many "news articles" or reference dropping to STEAM/SOURCE on linux, RAGE for linux PostalII for linux (with postalIII for linux being used as "evidence that STEAM/SOURCE coming to linux) and what do we have no

no STEAM, no RAGE, no PostalIII
...
report FACT
...
STEAM/SOURCE for linux was a massive farce...

All comes downto poor reporting and gossip being peddled as fact by phoronix surrounding anything Valve related.

absolutely +1

[M1kkko]

I can't talk much more about the Source Engine at the moment, but as most know right now there isn't an official Source Linux client that's released to the public.

I like you.

[rohcQaH]

Kaput implies brokenness what might be more accurate is stalled or perhaps vapourware

But Michael LOVES to use german words he overheard while drinking bear. Never mind that it makes me cringe everytime he does, and nevermind that they're often used slightly off of their intended meaning. At least he raises the journalistic quality of his articles by adding german expletives.