So I find this awesome FPS game called Combat Arms. Check it out:
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So I try it out, and it’s awesome. Great game, awesome graphics, good concept, great integration, everything. Then I kinda lost interest and didn’t use it for a while.
Fast forward about 4 months to last month. I was pretty bored over Christmas break, and I remembered that great game. (By this time I had ditched Vista and gone to Ubuntu, then dual-booted Ubuntu and Fedora).
Turns out – Nexon games are made only for Windows. It wasn’t a complete shock, it’s very common these days. However, there are plenty of people out there on Linux computers, trying to play this game. (I know, I’ve tried as well, every feasible way.)
Right now it appears that Nexon is concentrating on expanding their boundaries and opening servers in Europe. (Right now they have them in the US, Oceania, and South Korea. Go figure.) But there are PLENTY of Linux users – Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Arch, etc. etc. – that live in these areas that would LOVE to play this game! See: Here. And here. (I know these are both Ubuntu cases, but it’s all distros of Linux that are affected.)
Just for the record, so I don’t sound like a snotty little kid who hasn’t gotten what he wants for christmas, this is what I’ve tried:
1) Combat Arms with wine : nothing. won’t even install.
2) Combat Arms with PlayonLinux: nothing. won’t even install.
3) Combat Arms with CrossOverOffice: nothing. isn’t supported and won’t install.
4) Combat Arms with VMWare version of XP: nothing. won’t install.
5) Combat Arms with VirtualBox XP guest: will install!!! ……… but won’t play, since there seems to be a DirectX problem with VirtualBox.
There are my futile attempts at trying to play this game. If you think that Combat Arms should be expanded to be a cross-OS game, then comment on this post (at the bottom of this page). Just a first name and a quick blurb should be enough to count as a virtual signature.
Also, if you’d like to see what others have said or recommended(because we all know we penguins are DIYers) then click on “Comments” <– over there.
Hmmm, my first post. I wish I could say that I knew how this is going to end up, but for now I’m just going to explore a bit, see the reactions that people give.
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