Richard Hayes wrote:
Hardly Normal is the largest retailer of computer equipment is Australia by a long way. If their salespeople have not heard of Linux then I fear Australia is further behind that I thought.
I got a lecture yesterday from the uber-nerd at EB when I asked him when they were getting in The Matrix Online. His first question was "which country?" to which I replied, after a significantly long pause, "this country." He went on to say that unless a game has a lot of money behind it "like Blizzard or Sony" then it's not considered economical to release it in Australia. Apparently Warner Bros isn't a big company to EB staff.
The relationship to Linux? He was treating me like someone who knew nothing about computers even though I clearly had a Linux T-shirt on.
More startling: I went home to buy the game online, only to discover that Amazon doesn't ship *any* video games outside the US. I eventually got myself a copy from GameSpot.com.
Trent -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
