Are you a programmer? If you arent, then you have to pay some programmers $5 (wow Cds cost more) to write the code for you.
This is a service, i bet you pay more in a day to travel! Breakfast costs more.
Breakfast may taste like shit, your bus may be late, hey, thats how service works, this is how capitalism works, this is how the world works.
You never know what you will get until its done.
Paying for services is alot better than paying for something you'll never own, like say windows98.
Would you rather pay in advance for a license to use something ? (windowsXP) or would you prefer to pay for a service which produces code which you OWN? (transgaming)?
Transgaming may go bankrupt but all their games will work and their code will still be there.
Loki goes bankrupt, and its like they never exsisted.
And you say let them keep using windows? Well thats not what I want, i want linux to increase marketshare. So does transgaming and its subscribers, so we get better hardware support and real developers start porting games.
They only started taking subscriptions for a week.
They didnt start advertising.
They DO make money off of mandrake, and people who subscribe pay diffrent amounts, some pay $10, or $20 a month for more votes.
400 subscribers in a week, thats damn good.
Transgaming WILL definately fail if the market size doesnt increase, But I see Linux becoming more mainstream, Lindows for example should bring more windows people over, And Linux mandrake and KDE 3.0 should bring more windows users over to use Linux as a desktop.
Linux has a future, Transgaming well get serveral thousand subscribers this year but, the real goal is to expand the market.
Transgaming makes money by licensing their code, by subscribers, by partnerships, Lindows will most likely need transgaming code as well as anyone else with a Desktop Linux distro.
Transgaming is definately making more money than code weavers and code weavers is still around, Transgaming will also make more money than Loki and Loki's been around for a while.
Have some faith, give them some time.
IF they still have 400 subscribers in jan 2002, then you should worry.
The market however is growing, and as it grows, the gaming market grows, because desktop users are usually gamers.
Loki does not realize that they cant sell games to people who already own the windows version.
Now, given the chance to buy the windows version and the linux version, most people will choose the linux version. But if theres only a windows version and now it works in transgaming, these people most likely werent going to buy the linux version if it DID come out, they most likely have been booting into windows.
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Its a great Idea, I'm subcribed, and voting on the development process is GREAT!!!
Well? Did you subscribe to transgaming?
I certainly hope so after such a speech.
We will have WineX customized for specific games.
We will basically have an OS created for a specific game or group of them.
Like Linux Mandrake Blizzard Edition for Blizzard game fans.
When milllions of people go from windows users to linux users, then it will make plenty of sense to offer native games in linux.
They make it easy to install games.
The first month is free when you subscribe for an indefinate amount of time.
I subscribed for 3 months.
Transgaming has 3 months to come up with a useful product.
When you subscribe with an indefinate account, they require you subscribe for at least 3 months anyhow.
So the first month free thing is really just marketing.
Like AOLs 500 free hours knowing theres not even 1000 huors in a month and knowing you are hooked into a contract for 2 years so whats a month.
IF you are subscribed, then go to the support section.
The games which cant work, They dont even list.
They list games which they think they can make work, which they have tested.
I'm subcribed, every game listed has been tested and will work, but some bug, or small peice is mising keeping it from working.
Transgaming does testing, then has you vote on the games you want to work.
Are you a programmer? If you arent, then you have to pay some programmers $5 (wow Cds cost more) to write the code for you.
This is a service, i bet you pay more in a day to travel! Breakfast costs more.
Breakfast may taste like shit, your bus may be late, hey, thats how service works, this is how capitalism works, this is how the world works.
You never know what you will get until its done.
Paying for services is alot better than paying for something you'll never own, like say windows98.
Would you rather pay in advance for a license to use something ? (windowsXP) or would you prefer to pay for a service which produces code which you OWN? (transgaming)?
Linux didnt work right on my computer until recently, I HAD to use windows.
Now it works perfectly except for my cd burner.
Hardware support is a main reason why people dont use linux
With a bigger market, They'll write their drivers themselves like they do for windows and mac!
Hardware makers will make drivers for linux given a REASON to do so.
People who buy hardware are gamers, if linux has gamers, then linux will have hardware support.
Which is why we should support transgaming.
Transgaming may go bankrupt but all their games will work and their code will still be there.
Loki goes bankrupt, and its like they never exsisted.
And you say let them keep using windows? Well thats not what I want, i want linux to increase marketshare. So does transgaming and its subscribers, so we get better hardware support and real developers start porting games.
Most people if forced to choose Linux or Windows software, Will choose windows software.
What we need to do, is not force them to choose anymore, Just give them both and let them choose from inside Linux.
You see, with no games in linux, and Loki and Linux people telling them keep using Windows.
What will they do?
Well, They will keep using windows.
They only started taking subscriptions for a week.
They didnt start advertising.
They DO make money off of mandrake, and people who subscribe pay diffrent amounts, some pay $10, or $20 a month for more votes.
400 subscribers in a week, thats damn good.
Transgaming WILL definately fail if the market size doesnt increase, But I see Linux becoming more mainstream, Lindows for example should bring more windows people over, And Linux mandrake and KDE 3.0 should bring more windows users over to use Linux as a desktop.
Linux has a future, Transgaming well get serveral thousand subscribers this year but, the real goal is to expand the market.
Transgaming makes money by licensing their code, by subscribers, by partnerships, Lindows will most likely need transgaming code as well as anyone else with a Desktop Linux distro.
Transgaming is definately making more money than code weavers and code weavers is still around, Transgaming will also make more money than Loki and Loki's been around for a while.
Have some faith, give them some time.
IF they still have 400 subscribers in jan 2002, then you should worry.
The market however is growing, and as it grows, the gaming market grows, because desktop users are usually gamers.
"Why use Linux? It cant play any of my games!!!"
"I've spent thousands of dollars on this state of the art computer to play games on it, Linux cant do that?"
Sure Linux is secure
"Why cant it play my games????????"
Its stable
"But it cant play my games!!!!!"
Now lets look at what Loki says.
Loki:"Well if you want games, you either buy the games you already own on windows again and from us, or you can use windows"
You tell them if they want games use windows.
99 percent of computer users want games, email, surfing the web.
Linux cant do games? Windows CAN? So they all use windows.
What about old games which will never be ported?
Think about the present alittle bit.
Transgaming expands the market.
First they have a new business model, which if proven possible, will finally prove you can make money on open source.
Second they port games windows users already have, which makes windows users have no excuse not to use linux, making the market grow
Theres not alot of people voting, maybe only a few hundred.
I signed up on the first day too, because i wanted gaming, but i'm wondering how big the market actually is.
You have most likely seen me vote under LucianSK.
Loki does not realize that they cant sell games to people who already own the windows version.
Now, given the chance to buy the windows version and the linux version, most people will choose the linux version. But if theres only a windows version and now it works in transgaming, these people most likely werent going to buy the linux version if it DID come out, they most likely have been booting into windows.
Simple, to get windows users to migrate to linux, giving linux more support with hardware such as drivers, and software.
This is a GOOD thing.
Windows users want games, they dont care if the games are native or not, they just want to play their OLD games in Linux.
The new games can be native but the old games are what transgaming should be porting.
People buy what they want or need.
They dont pay for what they dont want or need.
IF people want games, people will pay.
IF people dont want games, people wont pay.
Its really that simple. you want games? Subscribe to transgaming. Otherwise you dont have games and its only your fault.