X2: The Threat

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	you must be kidding posted by Anonymous @ 91.65.90.47 on Nov 15 2007 7:12 AM
hi, x2 is a real nice game. but wanting fullprize for a game that already was released in a german computer magazine for about 5eur? forget it. yes i know it is for linux the market which is smaller etc. but why do you they not port games released this or last year? (x3...). because the license is cheap to get! but the price for us does not show it at all.
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Re: you must be kidding posted by SlackerTD @ 142.163.248.240 on Nov 15 2007 1:57 PM   They are working on porting X3. How would you know what the cost of licensing X2 was? I highly doubt that is something freely given out to anyone. Add to the fact that they do have to pay the coders to port X2.   [Reply]   Re: you must be kidding posted by Anonymous @ 88.134.102.17 on Nov 16 2007 7:57 AM   mmh let me think about it: a computer magazin includes the game in an issue. how much do you think the could have paid for the license then? not much, trust me. the graphics, sounds etc. are already there. no work to be done here game physics etc. are platform independent. what is left to be done is to write graphics/sound output, controller input, network. if they are lucky opengl is already included as well. so the port can be handled by even a smaller company. the market for the game is smaller by far und risky, I will give you that.   [Reply]   Re: you must be kidding posted by SlackerTD @ 142.163.248.240 on Nov 16 2007 2:26 PM   It's still two very different things... one group has access to distribute an already completed game, another gets access to source code & all to port to a new platform. Egosoft still owns the IP & handing out all of its IP to another company is still going to cost more. Either way, this doesn't really matter in the end... the price is what it is. To a Linux only gamer like myself, I've never seen it before. It's new to me. When it was new to Windows, the price was probably the same thing.   [Reply]   Re: you must be kidding posted by bart9h @ 189.106.5.98 on Oct 14 2009 12:29 PM   They don't exactly pay developers to port the game, at least not beforehand. From their site: "Developers will receive a generous percentage of the sales revenue based on performance and share of the work done on a project once the game is released, for the lifetime of the sales of the game."   [Reply]

	hmmm posted by nath @ 88.72.245.195 on Nov 10 2007 4:47 PM
Looks nice but I find it a bit boring after some time. Hopefully the third installment is better.
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	Great game - but the sound shutters. posted by gilboa @ 89.138.152.112 on Jan 23 2007 10:03 PM
I bought the game a month ago. Great game indeed - working nicely at 1920x1200/24" LCD :) (GF6800/2xAMDOP270) The only beef I have against it is the sound system. From time to time, with no apparent reason, the sound shutters for a 3-5 seconds and return to normal. I tried lowering the resolution; starting the game with all services disabled and/or as root (with renice) but it didn't seem to fix the problem. I tried contacting LGP, but got no answer :( - Gilboa
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Re: Great game - but the sound shutters. posted by Lightkey @ 84.56.85.40 on Mar 3 2007 6:19 PM Update to version 1.4.03. Supposedly that fixes your problem.   [Reply]   Re: Great game - but the sound shutters. posted by gilboa @ 62.90.10.50 on Nov 11 2007 4:49 PM In the end it was a kernel issue. Solved by a kernel update. The game itself is one of the best I ever played. P.S. X3 is entering the beta stage.   [Reply]

	Generally pretty good, but plot is short posted by Anonymous @ 84.45.214.43 on Jan 5 2007 12:34 PM
I bought this a month ago and have just finished the plot. There aren't that many plot missions, though the ones that are there are well put together. I suspect that development of the plot was cut short in order to release. Other than that, it's a great game.
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	Zoom keys don't work posted by Anonymous @ 69.25.131.132 on Nov 17 2006 9:41 AM
I bought the game and I love it. The only problem I have is that the NUM + and NUM - keys don't seem to work. The manual states that these are the keys that you zoom with when viewing you ship externally. Nothing happens when I press these keys.
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	segfaults :( posted by Anonymous @ 216.8.131.70 on Jun 26 2006 5:52 PM
ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default x2 1.4, built for i386 Segmentation Fault: What do you mean mind the asteroid? What astero [0xffffe420] x2_demo [0x813b374] x2_demo [0x80e03dd] x2_demo [0x810297a] x2_demo(vfprintf+0x359d) [0x80532fd] x2_demo [0x8101acf] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe1) [0xb7ce5f21] x2_demo(XMapRaised+0x31) [0x8050f01] No dice here. athlon 2600+ gentoo 2.6.16-beyond4
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	segfault :( posted by Anonymous @ 216.8.131.70 on Jun 26 2006 5:51 PM
ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default x2 1.4, built for i386 Segmentation Fault: What do you mean mind the asteroid? What astero [0xffffe420] x2_demo [0x813b374] x2_demo [0x80e03dd] x2_demo [0x810297a] x2_demo(vfprintf+0x359d) [0x80532fd] x2_demo [0x8101acf] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe1) [0xb7ce5f21] x2_demo(XMapRaised+0x31) [0x8050f01] No dice here. athlon 2600+ gentoo 2.6.16-beyond4
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	Neat, but one crippled demo posted by Anonymous @ 67.51.128.162 on Jun 22 2006 12:06 PM
I tried the demo. It seems to be a pretty good space sim. I am impressed that someone remembered the radar from Elite, though placing it in a square rather than a circular display is an odd choice, since you get objects popping in and out in the corners. My biggest gripe, though, is how horribly crippled the demo is.. You get a tiny universe of only four sectors, AND save/load are disabled, AND you're under a time limit before the game stops itself. I think just one of these would have been a fine limitation for a demo. Two would have been reasonable, but all three together is overkill. As far as demos go, this one's a bit crap. (Says the guy who kept the Thief 2 demo around after buying Thief 2 -- because the demo was not only fantastic, it had some things that weren't in the game itself!)
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	Eats my time posted by blindcoder @ 194.138.18.132 on Jun 20 2006 5:00 AM
Just like nethack, this game keeps eating up my spare time.
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	Hours and hours of space trade posted by MickS @ 85.216.144.181 on Jun 20 2006 3:46 AM
Once you get into it, the game can easily keep you occupied for several months...
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