Wolfenstein Linux Binaries Available

gurb writes: "Acording to Christian Antkow's plan (finger xian@idsoftware.com or see webdog.org) linux binaries for the latest installment of Wolfenstein are out. Grab it all over at id's ftp server, enjoy!"

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[psxndc]

This'll be modded down, but moderators go for it, I've got the karma to burn.

I can't believe your complaining that the company has put forth at least _some_ effort in this. They could easily turn around and say "If you want to play the game at all, you have to install Windows". There is no market for Linux games, no matter how many posts you see on /. that seem to the contrary. Maybe later when Linux has more of a foothold in the desktop OS space (that's another whole other holy war), but for right now, it makes no sense for a company to invest ANY money in developing a game's client for Linux. Should they invest in developing/porting server side code? Yes. The more servers, the more people can connect and enjoy the game which hopefuly means more sales, but the fact they are making an effort to provide _something_ to a market that they will lose money on should be applauded.

Face it, we live in a windows based world. It's great that there are people that don't have windows installed at all. I seriously, truly envy you. I wish I could get rid of my install of Win98, but there is just too much stuff I'm not willing to give up yet. People like me that won't buy any new Windows software are in the minority in the consumer pool, and people like you that don't even run windows is even smaller. Don't complain that id (or whoever) is making a smart business choice by not investing their time and money into what is in the grand scheme of things, a black whole.

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