phoronix.com — It's been exactly nine months (or 274 days) since Unreal Tournament 3 for the PC was released. It was also exactly one year when we confirmed that UT3 would be released for Linux via a posting by Epic's VP, Mark Rein.However, last November when it was time for this much-anticipated first person shooter to be released, the Linux demo was MIA ...
Aug 19, 2008 View in Crawl 4
ahviAug 20, 2008
Is it me or are there continually increasing amounts of Linux projects on the queue lately?
stevenatorAug 20, 2008
UT3 was a disappointment anyway.
deanjoAug 20, 2008Submitter
Well if UT3 for linux was a printer queue, you would have had a "out of toner" message popping up for the last 9 months.
culytAug 20, 2008
"middleware......so did you figure out what got removed from ut3 yet?--ryan."I think that is a fairly clear indication that there will *never* be a UT3 Linux client and that Epic are just going to keep pretending that there was going to be one to the point that no one even remembers UT3 existed let alone a Linux client. And well past the point at which game returns would be allowed.They have also been deleting the posts from their forums on the subject.So in conclusion f**k Epic, if your going to drop support for Linux do it properly rather than trying to f**k over people who brought copies of the game on preorder or shortly after release, as they where told there was going to be a Linux client.Even if the client is released tomorrow its to f**king late, no one is on the servers any more (although maybe a few hundred Linux users would boost the numbers).I know Linux isn't a huge market, but it is now up to around %4, and its probably higher for people who game since they are generally more computer literate and likly to try new things. As long as %4 of your profits is more than the cost of a Linux port you have a duty to your share holders to do so.I hope Valve is serious in their Linux efforts.☢