2009/5/25 <[email protected]>: > Not including proprietary is a good idea, and no Wine is probably > preferable.
If you want to alienate pretty much all gamers, yeah, then thats a good idea. Anyway just to clarify: The point isn't to include non-free games in Ubuntu repositories, the point is to promote support tools that allow you to install and play them in an easy manner, all of those support things should of course be Open Source and most of them are already included in Ubuntu anyway (Wine, Dosbox, etc.). > However, your statement about "no proprietary equals less > millenium gamers" is a lot bit false. Not really, its pretty much spot on. Open Source gaming is laughable when compared with the commercial gaming world. Not because there aren't good games, but because there are *FAR* to few good games. Playing the twenties iteration of a Quake Mod just isn't going to excite people who got tired from Quake a decade ago and moved on to other games. The gaming market is moving fast and Open Source has nothing to offer that can keep up with the high profile titles. > "Which types of games do you like, check all that apply: I don't really like the shotgun approach. To promote free games it would be much better to inform the user about the games instead of just filling his hard drive with random stuff. Information here means things like screenshots, gameplay videos and detailed game reviews that give an impression of the scope and quality of a game. On a broader scale it might also be a good idea to think about cross distribution packaging formats. As nice as the Ubuntu repositories are, they feel like a miss fit for gaming, as I would prefer to play a new game today, not six month down the line when a new Ubuntu release might come along. The idea to create an Open Source Steam-like tool has been bouncing a round every now and then and it would certainly make a welcome addition to the Open Source gaming world. -- 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
