UT 2003 Client For Linux?

Thomas A. Anderson writes "Although not officially supported, there is a very interesting post here from Mark Rein (VP of Marketing for Epic Games) that says UT 2003 client *already* runs on linux, and that it *might* be released close after the windows client. Let's all support Epic on this... Background: Back in April, on an IRC chat, Mark Rein stated that a linux server will happen, but the chance of linux and mac clients were a qualified "likely". He stated something similar in a chat in August. All the chat logs are interesting reads..."

why wait?

[garcia]

if the Linux client is already working why should the users have to wait for it to be released? Don't they understand that is just an unnecessary hassle for Linux users who want to play their game?

Release the Windows client on CD, make the Linux client available on the www/FTP, and be done w/it. Most people are going to buy the CD for Windows anyway, the Linux people are quite familiar w/downloading their own clients from the web.

Just do it.

Re:Does?

[soapvox]

Well Mac OS X is a version of BSD so I would assume that all thier work to get it to run on a mac will make it a lot easier to port to BSD than from starting from scratch so lets hope so. Now that Mac is BSD based I would think this would lend itself to more titles that get ported over to the mac to be ported to other *nix types, not guaranteed but I hope more likely. I was actually in Fry's this weekend and blown away by how many Mac OS X games there are out there, the problem for the first gen ones were they were mostly carbon ports but as more are more Cocoa ports I think we will see more *nix commercial games, or this could all be wishful thinking.

Re:why wait?

[Squarewav]

just couse its running doesnt meen its running well, it could have all sorta of problems, mostly with sound and input I would think(ie moving from directsound&input) also could be crashing like mad, who knows, least they are working on it as we speak insted of waiting untill release

Re:Why play a closed source game?

[merz]

Why buy new computer when you get probably get someone's Commodore 64 for free?

UT 2003 will have better graphics, sound, and gameplay features than Quake I. Quake I was a great game, but gamers are always looking for the latest and greatest. And I'm sure most gamers are well aware of Quake I, and don't need to be reminded of its existance.