[SGVLUG] Cedega isn't playnig with a full deck...

Miguel Hernandez migtek at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 12:20:30 PST 2008


Hells to the yea, Tom! I wouldn't mind filling out the survey to get a game
in return. Something new to put up against Wine = good. =P

--miguel

On Jan 25, 2008 4:50 PM, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was already under the impression that Cedega was getting underhandedly
> slimy when
> they pulled out the feedback list of supported games from the publicly
> accessible area
> of their site - it went over to one of the subscription only pages.
>
> I guess it was because of all the people who said "I'll wait until
> Starcraft is
> supported before I buy Cedega."  Transgaming's response seemed to be,
> "Well, now you
> have to buy it if you want to figure out whether it's supported or not!"
>
> Solomon
>
>
> --- "Emerson, Tom (*IC)" <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
>
> > Just got an e-mail from the Cedega folks [a.k.a. "transgaming"] -- seems
> > they have a "5-second survey" that they are spicing up a bit by offering
> > a grand prize of "any [windows?] game valued at 79.95 or less".  The
> > official rules [no purchase necessary and all that crap] lists a website
> > for filling out the survey, *BUT* (a) the exact site they mention is
> > 404, and (b) fixing the site reference to the right server comes back
> > with a message that "the survey is only available to the survey e-mail
> > recipients".
> >
> > The survey itself, however, has a link to "forward this message to a
> > friend", so theoretically anyone can be a "recipient"...
> >
> > Anyone interested in this?  [the survey has two questions: what PC game
> > do you play the most, and what WOULD you play in Linux under Cedega?;
> > demographics are age range and the continent/country you live in]  I
> > won't send this "to the list" as there is no guarantee that they aren't
> > caching any "friend" addresses to spam later on...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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