Are they really talking about the Sim City that I bought in 1988 (it's not a typo I'm talking about a game made 24 years ago) ? The game that was on a single 3"5 floppy disk. A floppy disk is a prehistoric thing of 1,44 Mb, as said for the younger ones that don't even know what a floppy is.
Is it a joke or something?
Sorry for intervening a little: A floppy (!) is a 1,2 Megabyte wobbly disc with a 5,25 " format. Successor of the 8" floppies. The 1,44 MB were already solid as rock.
But I would be actually surprised that they still have the sauce after so many years.
(Besides we probably have 10 free clones of this game type already.)
Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
They may suck, they may use Wine, they may not care (or even know) about other Linux distros than Ubuntu, but still they are going to port games to Linux. Seriously, few months or years ago we'd take 14 games from any big publisher as a success for Linux desktop. (A lame emulated success, but still, it's a sign of hope). I know Valve is much better than that, both in their attitude and in the way they're going to achieve the Linux goal, but it's still something. I'm surprised everyone here is that negative. For me, they don't deserve to be greeted with applause there, but nor they deserve to be mocked for starting to port stuff to Linux. Also, didn't the guy say that they are moving away from Wine towards native ports? Because that's what OMG Ubuntu reports, but Michael wrote they didn't tell anything about native plans.
They may suck, they may use Wine, they may not care (or even know) about other Linux distros than Ubuntu, but still they are going to port games to Linux. Seriously, few months or years ago we'd take 14 games from any big publisher as a success for Linux desktop. (A lame emulated success, but still, it's a sign of hope). I know Valve is much better than that, both in their attitude and in the way they're going to achieve the Linux goal, but it's still something. I'm surprised everyone here is that negative. For me, they don't deserve to be greeted with applause there, but nor they deserve to be mocked for starting to port stuff to Linux. Also, didn't the guy say that they are moving away from Wine towards native ports? Because that's what OMG Ubuntu reports, but Michael wrote they didn't tell anything about native plans.
Fact [if they'll porting their game to linux] please? It's from your logic, your opinion. As for my opinion:
Originally Posted by OMG ubuntu
During a Q&A with Hilleman, he revealed some interesting information: -
EA have built 14 different products for WINE but are moving away from it
They are seeking to create a set of ‘configuration sets’ with Canonical on hardware they will support
They are most excited about HTML5 and WebGL – which boasts the widest reach
Hilleman expects China to pick an OS ‘not made by Microsoft’
The company will ‘showing off’ a browser-based game with Playstation 2 grade graphics at Google I/O
They will be judging the ‘success’ of the Ubuntu titles on user rather than ‘financial’ metrics
Well, from information above, I think they still make some game exclusive for windows and won't porting that game to linux. But they will make games that can be played across OS: web based game.
And if you think it's OK for playing with WINE, we don't need them to state that. Already knew that that there's bunch of windows games that can be played with WINE, plenty of good windows game among them. Time will tell who's right . Oh, and porting game is not something that easy to accomplish, dear watson! Not for one that design their stuff to just run in one platform.
Activision isn't bad company, beacause they had problems with Loki Software:
Activision locked employees in a room, reducing them to tears over a period of several hours, all because their bosses were leaving the company. They are a bad company.
Activision locked employees in a room, reducing them to tears over a period of several hours, all because their bosses were leaving the company. They are a bad company.
Activision locked employees in a room, reducing them to tears over a period of several hours, all because their bosses were leaving the company. They are a bad company.
Interesting story
There are 5 official linux games from Loki/Activision:
- Heavy Gear II
- Heretic II
- Quake III Arena
- Civilization: Call to Power
- Soldier of Fortune
There are 5 official linux games from Loki/Activision:
Actually Activision's only involvement was signing a deal with Loki to produce those AAA titles. Loki spent quite a bit of money to have the privilege of doing those ports- and they weren't published by Activision...they were published by Loki.
Originally Posted by Fixxer_Linux
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. Oh, and porting game is not something that easy to accomplish, dear watson! Not for one that design their stuff to just run in one platform.
