Fragging on Linux and TransGaming

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 5, 2005 @11:59AM from the penguin-for-the-win dept.

Kez writes "HEXUS.net has an article looking at the current state of Linux gaming and the broad number of supported games both natively and through emulation. Included in the article is a chat with the Product Manager of TransGaming - the creators of Cedega (formerly known as WineX.)" From the article: "Well, Linux certainly isn't most peoples' thought for a games-based PC. Especially one being taken to a big tournament LAN party. However, by design or trickery, none of the tournament games at the event were out-of-bounds to my Linux machine, and rousing games of Call of Duty, Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament 2004 were shared by the HEXUS.net collective and any other gamers who felt like joining in." We ran a story about a similar article back in February.

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Re:Screw WineX, Cedega... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-05 19:27 · Score: -1, Redundant

> It's because of apps like this no-one wants to
> adopt Linux as a gaming platform.
> [...] we must stop buying stuff like this and also
> stop buying Windows games

I agree with you here, but think, a happy medium can be found that works for all:

1. *Buy* every game you want to play, that is natively available for Linux. Be happy :-)

2. Pirate every Windows game you want to play, and use Wine or pay for Cedega's WineX. Kindly request from the game company to make a Linux port. Once they do, go to Step 1.

And do not ever use Windows to browse to game companies' sites! They DO watch the webserver logs and create OS (market!) statistics.