RE: [GD-General] OS split for UT2003

[Gareth L. <gl...@cl...>]

(Mod, sorry I forgot to change my email address, please refuse the previous
post, I have reregistered)

I think you read the table backwards, what the table shows (to me) are

On the server side
- Windows NT is gone.
- There has been a major shift from WinNT and Linux over to WindowsXP. 9x
and 2k hardly changed. I doubt people upgraded from NT or linux to 2k, I
would more expect XP to be the reason.
- It's interesting that Windows Server 2k3 doesn't show up. I'm not sure
what the reasons for that are.

On the client side
- Linux and Mac are not really viable targets. The large figures that linux
servers have imply to me one of the following options
- 1) People are running linux servers and then playing on a Wintel box.
- 2) (more likely) about 1% of the players also run servers (assuming a
guestimate of 50% of linux players running a server)[2]

[1]This is not to say that people should or should not target them in the
games they make (that is an opinion, I'm just deducing information from the
stats.

[2] Daniel could you give us the stats on that. I understand you don't want
to give out numbers, but could you please give us a 'number of servers vs
number of clients' ratio ? 

Again Daniel, thanks for the information, it is extremly interesting. If
only some online game that targeted all 3 consoles existed that we could get
similar numbers out of :)

Just my 2c
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toni [mailto:to...@4d...]
> Sent: 20 January 2004 20:56
> 
> Well, even when data is nice to see (i like that linux growth 
> in servers 
> and clients and well, i see the XP shifting too) I think data is not 
> representative.
> I mean if you don't have the number of players/connections 
> whatever you 
> can't compare both data statistics, am i right?. I mean, i don't know 
> how successful UT2003 is but it could be easily biassed,  for example 
> because there are less people that plays UT2003 (i don't know 
> that, i've 
> never played ut2003) than in 2002 (that would explain, for 
> example the 
> linux growth, as there are less fps in linux than in windws).
> 
> Just my 2 cents
> 
> Toni
> Lead Designer/Programmer
> insideo.com