Posted by
michael
on from the chopping-off-heads dept.
nicku writes: "According to this email to retailers that was leaked, LokiGames is closing on January 31. I'm sad to see them go, I own 3 of their excellent ports..."
I'm not sad to see them go.
by
gmhowell
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· Score: 1, Troll
They didn't make games I wanted. Didn't seem like they ever would. My job is not to 'support the concept of Linux gaming'. It's to buy games.
-- Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Re:first posting is great
by
MrPerfekt
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· Score: 1, Troll
too bad you weren't it!
-- I just wasted your mod points! HA!
This is what happens....
by
Wakko+Warner
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· Score: 0, Troll
...when you try to sell games to cheap-ass Linux users. One person bought Loki's games and served the ISOs on IRC.
Sad to see them go? What's sad is how little support they got from the stingy Linux user community.
- A.P.
-- "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Use operating systems for what they're good for
by
xg0blin
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· Score: 0, Troll
If you want to play games, use windows, if you want to program, or run an apache server or whatever, go ahead and use linux. Is it really that hard to use windows? Even when linux sucks for something, you don't wnat to use windows, when it happens to be good about the operation in question?
huh? I already got free.
by
Erris
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· Score: 2, Troll
At Hyperion, an alternative platform game software porting company I work for, we've produced titles for Linux... For some reason they just couldn't grasp that it cost us money to both license and port the software, and that we didn't see a red cent for the Windows version they bought.
I'm having trouble grasping the concept myself. You might try explaining it a little better. Do those compaines pay you to port those games, or do they just give you the source and then give you a chunck of the revenue when you are done? You're not doing for fun are you?
I'm also having trouble imagining the demanding weenies you describe. The Baton Rouge LUG is small, but most of the people there were NOT like this. Me and the people I know don't do Linux for games. I do it for scientific computing, and I'm just resigned to the idea that I can't make a sound card work. My wife's Red Hat machine has bunches of games that I've never bothered to play, at least one of my Debian machines has Quake that I never play. Having not bothered with all of that, I'm not going to bother to harrass your sales clerks. I don't know anyone else who would either. Perhapse the folks at X-Box have strange ways of ammusing themselves.
All that being said, I've got plenty of money that I have not spent on M$ crap that could be spent on games, especially some of the more interesting social interaction games you mention in another post.
The problem you have is threefold. Teaching me how to build a machine that works. Telling me about your game. Finding the time for me to follow your instructions, get your game and actually play it. Oh wait, most of those problems are mine. Oh well.
Games and PC's multimedia that don't really work right are the smallest social cost of the M$ monopoly.
-- DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
I'm glad they are gone.
by
HanzoSan
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· Score: 1, Troll
Now all these people who refused to sign up to transgaming have no excuse and now its official,.
The only way we will get games working in Linux right now, is to support transgaming.
Loki tried but their idea just wasnt profitable.
Everyone who wants games in linux will sign up to transgaming, everyone who doesnt sign up to transgaming doesnt want games in Linux. Its really that simple.
-- If you use Linux, please help development ofAutopac
Some people want to use ONE OS all the time
by
HanzoSan
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· Score: 1, Troll
Its not about being a fanatic.
Do you want to have to use Internet Explorer for certain sites and Mozilla for others?
Well then.
Whats wrong with improving the gaming experience on Linux? Its bad and Windows is better right now, but some people dont have the money to buy Windows, dont want to buy a $200 program to play games when paying transgaming $5 a month will get their games working.
Your choice, $200, or $5 x 12 = 60
$60, or $200, the choice says Linux is lighter on the wallet.
-- If you use Linux, please help development ofAutopac
Re:UNITED STATES ATTACKED -- PLEASE READ
by
EugeneK
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· Score: 0, Troll
Not only that, but Loki Games may be shutting down.
Slashdot Mirror
They didn't make games I wanted. Didn't seem like they ever would. My job is not to 'support the concept of Linux gaming'. It's to buy games.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
too bad you weren't it!
I just wasted your mod points! HA!
...when you try to sell games to cheap-ass Linux users. One person bought Loki's games and served the ISOs on IRC.
Sad to see them go? What's sad is how little support they got from the stingy Linux user community.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
If you want to play games, use windows, if you want to program, or run an apache server or whatever, go ahead and use linux. Is it really that hard to use windows? Even when linux sucks for something, you don't wnat to use windows, when it happens to be good about the operation in question?
I'm having trouble grasping the concept myself. You might try explaining it a little better. Do those compaines pay you to port those games, or do they just give you the source and then give you a chunck of the revenue when you are done? You're not doing for fun are you?
I'm also having trouble imagining the demanding weenies you describe. The Baton Rouge LUG is small, but most of the people there were NOT like this. Me and the people I know don't do Linux for games. I do it for scientific computing, and I'm just resigned to the idea that I can't make a sound card work. My wife's Red Hat machine has bunches of games that I've never bothered to play, at least one of my Debian machines has Quake that I never play. Having not bothered with all of that, I'm not going to bother to harrass your sales clerks. I don't know anyone else who would either. Perhapse the folks at X-Box have strange ways of ammusing themselves.
All that being said, I've got plenty of money that I have not spent on M$ crap that could be spent on games, especially some of the more interesting social interaction games you mention in another post.
The problem you have is threefold. Teaching me how to build a machine that works. Telling me about your game. Finding the time for me to follow your instructions, get your game and actually play it. Oh wait, most of those problems are mine. Oh well.
Games and PC's multimedia that don't really work right are the smallest social cost of the M$ monopoly.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Now all these people who refused to sign up to transgaming have no excuse and now its official,.
The only way we will get games working in Linux right now, is to support transgaming.
Loki tried but their idea just wasnt profitable.
Everyone who wants games in linux will sign up to transgaming, everyone who doesnt sign up to transgaming doesnt want games in Linux. Its really that simple.
For all who want to sign up TransGaming
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Its not about being a fanatic.
Do you want to have to use Internet Explorer for certain sites and Mozilla for others?
Well then.
Whats wrong with improving the gaming experience on Linux? Its bad and Windows is better right now, but some people dont have the money to buy Windows, dont want to buy a $200 program to play games when paying transgaming $5 a month will get their games working.
Your choice, $200, or $5 x 12 = 60
$60, or $200, the choice says Linux is lighter on the wallet.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Not only that, but Loki Games may be shutting down.