| commentid | objectid | typeid | userid | subject | comment | timestamp | parentid |
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| 10519 | Cedega (WineX) | games | -1 | Your ignorant bias is showing.... | PLEASE keep your biased attitude to yourself. I use Transgaming Wine to play Starsiege Tribes and UnReal(1). In both cases it works GREAT! | 2003-04-18 20:03:42 | 0 |
| 10521 | Cedega (WineX) | games | -1 | Re: Your ignorant bias is showing.... | Yes I agree with you there. Having the description...<br><br> "Run Windows games in Linux! Slowly! Unstably! Help prevent native ports!"<br><br> .... is both unprofessional and offensive. Reminds me of the saughta opinionated crap we receive from the "unbiased" media these days. What we don't need atm is more sarcasm, whoever posted this program should think twice before writing such dribble. | 2003-04-18 20:45:38 | 10519 |
| 10522 | Cedega (WineX) | games | 6801 | Re: Your ignorant bias is showing.... | Except that he is right. If someone can play something through winex why would they bother porting something to Linux. | 2003-04-18 20:49:18 | 10521 |
| 10523 | Cedega (WineX) | games | -1 | Re: Your ignorant bias is showing.... | Do you really beleive that? Porting takes planning. <P>Code that is designed to be portable from the start will likely result in a port -- WineX or not. <P>After all, who want's to bet that a game that isn't even designed yet will run on WineX later? <P>Ports AFTER THE FACT are much more difficult to pull off unless the code is designed to be portable first. <P>The games were're getting are portable. The games were're getting that aren't might work with Wine or WineX...and would not have been ported otherwise. | 2003-04-18 21:06:07 | 10522 |
| 10524 | Cedega (WineX) | games | -1 | Re: Slow? My ASS! | <I>Play GTA3 under Linux, and then play it under Windows, and you will understand.</I> <P>I don't boot Windows, so GTA3 (or any other unported game) runs infinately slow without Wine or WineX. With them, the performance may be acceptable...even if not as speedy as under Windows. <P>Example: Civilizaion III -- Not available as a port and not quick under WineX but good enough on my modest machine (Athlon 600) to play for hours. I have no idea how fast/slow it is under Windows. | 2003-04-18 21:12:05 | 10486 |
| 10525 | Cedega (WineX) | games | -1 | Re: Slow? My ASS! | You're completely missed my point. <BR><BR> WineX slows games down, and you not playing under Windows doesn't change this fact. <BR><BR> Since WineX slows games down, there is incentive for companies to create native ports.. If a game could run on a 400Mhz processor instead of having to run it on an 800Mhz processor, more people will be able to run the game, which means more money for the game compnay. That's all I'm saying. Don't get your panties in a bunch, I'm a Transgaming subscriber, and I appreciate them. | 2003-04-18 21:26:37 | 10524 |
| 10526 | Cedega (WineX) | games | -1 | Re: Your ignorant bias is showing.... | Jesus, you people are complete idiots.<BR><BR> Do you think game developers are sitting around talking about porting their game to Linux, and one of them asks the question "Hey guys, should we really do a native Linux port of this game that we're going to release in 2 years? I mean, maybe it is going to run in Wine!?" <BR> What the hell, do you honestly think they KNOW that a game is going to run under WineX once they finish it? Even Transgaming doesn't know! Usually the first votes for games go towards having them assess the game to see if it's even worthwhile for them to make it run.<BR><BR> One more time: <BR> Company X writes a game, and has no plans to port to Linux.<BR> Linux gamers are shit out of luck.<BR> <BR> Options: <BR> A.) Don't play the game (pretty crappy option, really.)<BR> B.) Go back to Windows to play (ok, so now we're losing people back to Windows)<BR> C.) Vote on the game and hope it runs in WineX.<BR><BR> <BR> Even games that are supposed to be supported doesn't run 100%. An example is Half-life, and it's lack of voice communications. It took weeks for Transgaming to get the anti-cheat code working. <BR><BR> I'm not bashing WineX, I like WineX, but you people who act like it's going to completely eliminate native ports are so unbelievable uninformed and annoying... The fact is WineX is filling a small niche. It's not going to replace native ports. | 2003-04-18 21:37:41 | 10522 |
| 10527 | Cedega (WineX) | games | 6121 | Re: Game companies | I agree with a lot of what is said here. I believe there can be a harmonious balance between native ports and WineX run games. I think it will be a long time before big lables such as Electronic Arts and Blizzard will start seriously paying attention to linux and untill they do WineX will be the only option.<BR><BR> Gamers demand performance and that performance will come from native binaries for games. Consider for a moment that a company such as EA learns that many of it's tittles are being played or attempted to be played by Linux users using WineX. They can know and estimate what sort of demand would be for a native version of that game and hence the viability of portting such a game. If anything, WineX demonstrates to a company that Linux users who play their games do exist.<BR><BR> Pro-WineX people will not deny that native ports perform better than the winex experience. All a company has to do is look at the voting on Trangaming to know what sort of demand there is for there game and get an idea of commercial reality for do that port. I am pretty certain that there would be a huge demand for a native version Battle Field 1942. just look at how many people voted for it on Transgaming.com What better way to prove that a game would be played by linux users?<BR><BR> For now we need both native ports and WineX driven game else we will be left only half satisfied in our gaming needs.<BR><BR> | 2003-04-18 22:21:18 | 10507 |
| 10528 | Cedega (WineX) | games | 6121 | Re: It's sad to see someones ranting | Well put :-) | 2003-04-18 22:27:55 | 7370 |
| 10530 | Dominions | games | 7784 | Decent, but Not Great | In my opinion, the only really fun part about this game was figuring out the game mechanics in the almost utter absence of in-game help. For slow-paced strategy, I'd rather play FreeCiv. The graphics and messages in the combat, I found decidedly sub-par. It was virtually impossible to tell who was attacking whom, until a unit died. I found myself itching to have the source code, so I could maybe improve the small things that irritated me. On the plus side, it never crashed. | 2003-04-18 22:48:01 | 0 |