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Loki Files For Chapter 11 Protection
yamla writes: "Loki is dead!" and points to a Linux Review article which says the gaming company has filed for protection from creditors under bankruptcy laws. Yamla continues: "Read about it here. This is terrible news! I have paid for some of their games and they were always at least as good as the Windows versions. I hope Loki can pull out of bankruptcy and keep going but if not, it will be our loss." There is also a story at LinuxToday (pointed out by reader Beee) which draws from the Linux Review report. Meanwhile, the Loki site appears business-as-usual. Filing for bankruptcy protection is not the same as being "out of business," but it's uncomfortably close.
Er ... I don't even play games. Probably the majority of Slashdot readers don't play games. Why the hell should we buy them?
I suppose we could have also saved pets.com if every Slashdot reader had bought just one 50-pound sack of dog food.
Leftist idealists with no firm grounding in real-world economics have no legitimate reason to run a company... just look at VA!
They may not be dead yet, but (IMHO) Loki should die. I don't mean to be mean spirited about it. I love the idea of Loki, but it just doesn't seem practical to me anymore.
I virtually stopped buying games for my PC back when I upgraded from Sega Genesis to Sony Playstation. For me, gaming has moved into the appliance faze.
A Linux PC is (and should be) the farthest thing from an appliance. Of course the technologies in it can be used to build appliances, but this Linux PC on my desktop isn't an appliance, and I don't want it to be.
For gaming, I want an appliance. Sure, the console market isn't perfect, but it's good enough and it is getting better.
(In point of fact, I do use my PC for gaming. I play Same GNOME whenever I need a little mind-numbing escape from the grind. I definately use my PC a lot to support my non-computer-RPG habit. But for the serious shell-out-sixty-bucks gaming, it's PS2 all the way. Oh, wait -- I do use my PC to look up tips and cheat codes on the web...)