hubba1 wrote:Grandma, maybe they will be williing to pay you some money when you get it working completely on Linux. You could work on it on spec, that is you get paid upon completion of the project. Once it is working satisfactorily you'd be paid the agreed upon amount. Since it is so close to working this might be an attractive offer for you to make to Nevrax.
If not you perhaps someone with expertise in Linux programming might be willing to work with you and make a similar speculative offer to Nevrax.
If not ... guess it wasn't that close to working after all.
As one poster humourously suggested, I'd pay for a working client on Windows (to paraphrase his remarks). I hope you got his humor.
See the point is, they have a lot of work to do just making sure the game works on most of the Windows systems out there. Some might say that based on their own personal experience, they aren't yet doing that job so very well. Others might say they are doing a pretty good job.
Should they sacrifice resources to aim for Linux players? As another poster put it ... another MMORPG runs on Linux and only about .015 percent of all the players are Linux users. Even if it were 5 percent, is that a smart use of Nevrax programming resources?
It seems to me that you'll have to outsource your project. I'm sure that if you get it working, Nevrax will be happy to pay something for that work, but don't be surprised if for the time you and your team spend on it, that it doesn't end up paying all that well.
Somehow I get the feeling that's where this snowball lies, somewhere melting on somebody's lawn far away from an active snowball fight.
I wish you well and much success in your honorable endeavour, if not in your cause per se.
ok a few things here
1 he's NOT running it natively under linux, he's using an emulator either wine or cedega
2 for the most part this game runs fine on windows, the ones voicing problems are less than those who run fine
3 there is NO MMORPG for linux, the only two that are kinda close are a tale in the desert and planeswalker, a tale in the desert gets posted on slashdot's front page lots getting lots of free adevertisement for the game
4 most of this game already works under linux and they have linux coders at neverax already
lots of ppl would pay for a linux client, or at least a download for the client and you have to buy the windows box version. i certainly would be one of them and i'm sure that there would be a good market for it.
to give you an example id software released a boxed version of linux, through loki software, they at least broke even on the project. this was 4 years ago when linux was still really just starting to get noticed by the mainstream. so now 4 years later i'm sure that a client will be a viable option, unreal tournament has included a linux version in the box for the past 2 versions
i know it's not the point of the thread to be little or berate things but most people have no clue what they are talking about with windows, let alone another operating system. there is so much crap and misinformation spread about linux that 95% of the ppl have no idea what they are talking about
