No Retail Linux TeamArena

December 6, 2000 9:59 PM

According to this post (Thanks VE) by Todd Hollenshead of id Software it looks like TeamArena wont be making a Linux retail release. They do plan on making a unsupported release on the net though but putting it on shelves didnt seem to prove as beneficial as was hoped:

Windows will be released first and might be simultaneous with Mac, although I honestly expect Mac to take a tad longer. At this point, we don't have any plans to have distribute a Linux verison on a CD. [...] retailers don't want it, and the Linux Q3A sales were disappointing. So the commercial reality is that the Windows version will go to retail and Linux will be available via a binary download pretty soon thereafter.

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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StimpyBoy-KNoB-

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December 6, 2000 11:12 PM

Booya grandma this time!
- KMFDM
  
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  December 6, 2000 11:15 PM
  
  Motherfucker you stole 1st post from me. Goddamnit!! AHHHHH!!!!!
  
  Scared yet? Well, could you act scared? Please? It would boost my self-confidence. No? Okay....:turns to crackpipe for comfort: You won't leave me will you crackpipe? :crackpipe breaks:
  
  Oh woe is me.
  - StimpyBoy-KNoB-
    
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    December 6, 2000 11:17 PM
    
    I stole it for 2 minutes...
    
    You're not very fast on the crackpipe posting are ya?
    - KcraCSmoka
      
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      December 6, 2000 11:19 PM
      
      /me is king of the pipe
    - KMFDM
      
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      December 6, 2000 11:19 PM
      
      ou dare offend me?!?!
      
      Don't make me get Martha Stewart on your knobby ass.
      
      Self confidence at an all time high.
      - StimpyBoy-KNoB-
        
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        December 6, 2000 11:20 PM
        
        didn't you get broken up like a fave software company of ours?
        
        You're living in the past, you have to move on.