It had a bug where it couldn't handle your CD-Rom drive being anything besides D. THe other (whose name eludes me), looked nice, I say looked nice because I never got to play it. This was nothing but Beta at best and I was very anoyed after 2 months waiting for patches, to the point that I just gave up. Quite honestly the game was buggy, features were missing (like the note in the Readme file that going to the World map would crash the game).
Given Sierra's history, that seems rather unlikely it's more likely they would build a big warehouse, fill it with brand-new copies of Tribes 2, and then burn the warehouse down.Īfter two bad experiances getting games from Sierra (as publishers) I decided to pass on by. I would love it if, say a year from now, Sierra decided they had milked this particular cow as much as they can, and released the sources to Tribes 2 to let the T2 community support themselves. (By shutting down Dynamix, Sierra is essentially saying "We no longer care if any bugs are found.") When you have really weird difficult bugs, it saves a lot of time to have the people who wrote the code fix those bugs. Loki has the code, but that's not always enough.
#Tribes 2 patches install#
It is hard to install Linux, and harder still to get 3D working I can't imagine a truly wide-scale move to Linux until this changes.
then, just maybe, something like what you describe might come to pass. If the Win32 version is no longer maintained, and the Linux version is still maintained, and enough bugs and/or cheats come to light that the existing customers start to really want an update. What is interesting is to speculate whether existing Win32 customers might migrate to Linux Tribes. I know you have tongue in cheek here, but to answer seriously: I don't think the numbers on Tribes 2 are high enough to be "the masses". If the win32 port is no longer updated, couldn't this potentially be the killer game app that forces the masses to Linux?
but it depends on how the deal was structured we can't just guess about it.
#Tribes 2 patches update#
Wouldn't Loki still be able to update the Linux version.
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