2009/5/24 Tim Wells <[email protected]>: > I have to agree here, promoting the use of wine to play commercial games > does nothing towards FOSS gaming or promoting ubuntu.
The point of promoting commercial/Windows games on Linux is that it promotes Linux as a useful platform for all your needs, as gaming tends to be the need that is nowhere near to be full filled by FOSS software anytime soon. And as mentioned before, how is playing a non-free game really any different then watching a non-free movie? It might be better to have both of them Free, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon, so you pick the next best thing: The ability to run them on a Free platform. > The problem being that commercial games have the time and money to invest in > engines, storylines, > etc etc. Yes and that isn't going to change. FOSS gaming is light years away from commercial AAA game titles and things are only getting worse over time, since the polish that gets put into commercial games is constantly increasing at an insane rate. Now that doesn't mean that FOSS gaming can't do anything, games such as World of Goo or Braid are widely popular and certainly not that far away from FOSS games, so with enough effort there is certainly potential to produce some good FOSS games, but getting anywhere near a game such as Metal Gear 4 is not going happen. -- WWW: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/ Blog: http://grumbel.blogspot.com/ JabberID: xmpp:[email protected] ICQ: 59461927 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
