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Prey for Linux
Post by trog @ 04:14pm 08/12/08 | 20 Comments
The icculus.org team have announced that Prey is now available for Linux:
We have released the retail version of Prey for Linux. You will need our downloadable installer, a valid and unique CD key, and a copy of the game. You can use either the three CD-ROM version, the Collector's Edition DVD-ROM, or a preinstalled copy of the Windows version, such as you would download from Steam.

There is no boxed version for Linux, but any existing Windows version of the game disc will work.
More information and installation instructions are available on their download page.


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Midda
Posted 04:32pm 08/12/08
Awesome, that was quick!
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HyperJ
Posted 04:42pm 08/12/08
Am I missing something? Isn't half the point of linux that everything is free? If you were going to pay for a game, surely you would splash out a little extra for a gaming desktop OS (Windows), with a huge range of gaming titles?
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Nailbomb
Posted 04:48pm 08/12/08
The OS is free to download and use but there are still plenty of payware applications that run on linux just as there are plenty of free applications that run on Windows.
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scuzzy
Posted 04:50pm 08/12/08
Am I missing something?
Yes
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Nathan
Posted 05:52pm 08/12/08
Spot on scuzzy
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parabol
Posted 06:16pm 08/12/08
Isn't half the point of linux that everything is free?

Troll fail, try again.
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whoop
Posted 06:46pm 08/12/08
I remember the good old days when game devs released linux binaries for their stuff. I used to kain around in quake2 under linux all the damn time. Why don't they do that any more?
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Insom
Posted 06:55pm 08/12/08
because the whole point of linux is that it is free

don't u know anything
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Fn
Posted 06:58pm 08/12/08
I'm also free, do you see my point?

How about now?
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whoop
Posted 07:04pm 08/12/08
Everything should be free, food, beer, games, women, computers, software, it should all be free. Let's all build a utopian society where everything is free, it'll be cool I swear.
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Reduaram
Posted 07:28pm 08/12/08
I see you've played Bioshock whoop.
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whoop
Posted 07:30pm 08/12/08
I played the demo, did not want.
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Pinky
Posted 07:38pm 08/12/08
Everything should be free, food, beer, games, women, computers, software, it should all be free. Let's all build a utopian society where everything is free, it'll be cool I swear.


And everyone's equal. But some people are more equal than others.

Oh...hang on...de ja vu
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trog
Posted 07:56pm 08/12/08
Am I missing something? Isn't half the point of linux that everything is free? If you were going to pay for a game, surely you would splash out a little extra for a gaming desktop OS (Windows), with a huge range of gaming titles?
But if you could get an operating system for free that was perfectly capable of playing these games, thus saving you a few hundred dollars, wouldn't you do it? Sadly, not enough developers take the time to make a Linux port (or even a Mac OS X port, which is probably getting to the point where it's worth doing more than Linux now).
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Midda
Posted 09:11pm 08/12/08
I remember the good old days when game devs released linux binaries for their stuff. I used to kain around in quake2 under linux all the damn time. Why don't they do that any more?

Because most games now use DirectX, which is only available under Windows. OpenGL used to be much more common.
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whoop
Posted 10:22pm 08/12/08
opengl > direct x, they should go back imho

3dfx_opengl.dll > *

(or even a Mac OS X port, which is probably getting to the point where it's worth doing more than Linux now).

Aren't most mac users these days starving artist & student macbook users? Probably not the best gaming platform or the richest demographic, especially after having to pay so much for a macbook compared to a normal laptop :p

last edited by whoop at 22:22:13 08/Dec/08
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Midda
Posted 10:24pm 08/12/08
OpenGL is still around. Id have always used OpenGL, which is why their games always end up on Linux. I'm pretty sure that id Tech5 is in OpenGL too, so Rage will likely end up on Linux.
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Habib
Posted 01:14am 09/12/08
Unfortunately though, it's dying due to stagnation. See how well the OpenGL 3 specs went down:

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259

A lot of developers have just given up on opengl and moved to DX.
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maxe
Posted 09:09am 09/12/08
Everything should be free, food, beer, games, women


you pay for women?
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Midda
Posted 10:53am 09/12/08
We all pay for them one way or another.
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