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!"

Comments

Demo?

[Psiren]

Can you use this to run the demo, or is that single player only? If so, is there any way to demo it under Linux yet?

Re:From Linuxgames

[Evro]

And that will tell them exactly what? That people will download it for free? People are generally more than willing to try anything that's free. The challenge is to make money from it. Even John Carmack acknowledges that the Linux gaming market is essentially wothless from a business standpoint.

I would think that if we learned nothing else from the whole "dot com" era it's that people love free things but are completely unwilling to then pay for them. As numerous articles on even Slashdot have pointed out, people are willing to go to great lengths to give nothing back to the creators, installing junkbuster or even no longer going to certain sites that have ads. God forbid anyone try to make a dime on the stuff they're producing.

So sure, millions of downloads will tell id something, but nothing that will make them want to release a commercial Linux version. There's no market for it.