World of Warcraft Linux Port Petition

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djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:05 pm

http://www.blizzpub.net/petition/

Pretty fairly self explanatory I think, please sign and spread the word

(I don't think this has been posted here yet, sorry if it has)

The_Paranoid · Post by **The_Paranoid** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:28 pm

really nice

Hope they get enough votes to release WoW for Linux

IntergalacticWalrus · Post by **IntergalacticWalrus** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:21 pm

Signed.

Even if WoW doesn't get a native Linux client, I for one won't be sad, as Warcraft III runs flawlessly under Wine with the -opengl switch. Hell, apparently some guy at Blizzard is working on a special Wine installer for WoW.

equilibrium · Post by **equilibrium** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:28 pm

signed

231

looks a good game so be cool to have it on linux

Evil Dark Archon · Post by **Evil Dark Archon** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:59 pm

signed, #306

floam · Post by **floam** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:35 pm

Sorry, but online petitions are useless. Not signing.

DuF · Post by **DuF** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:56 pm

Maybe useless, maybe not !

Signed, #339

smith84594 · Post by **smith84594** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 11:50 pm

IntergalacticWalrus wrote:Signed.

Even if WoW doesn't get a native Linux client, I for one won't be sad, as Warcraft III runs flawlessly under Wine with the -opengl switch. Hell, apparently some guy at Blizzard is working on a special Wine installer for WoW.

Exactly. It already runs fine -> check out this post:

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums ... _id=216712

mrmodin · Post by **mrmodin** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:30 am

Blizzard games are so well programmed that u can assume they will work in WINE for example, they follow the standards.

The Mountain Man · Post by **The Mountain Man** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:42 am

IntergalacticWalrus wrote:Hell, apparently some guy at Blizzard is working on a special Wine installer for WoW.

Where did you hear this?

floam · Post by **floam** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:47 am

Wrong. Some guy who's talked to a guy at blizzard has made an install script that uses wine.

Coign · Post by **Coign** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:53 am

Signed 458

And I to think that online petitions are not going to make someone move thier game to Linux. But if they are riding the fence on a descision to maybe try porting I think community feedback is very important.

By the way, has anyone try to slashdot that Linux petion? I would like to see WoW be the first native MMORPG for linux. I know I for one, will buy the first game to make a native MMORPG just to show my suport fro the open community and to promote Linux as a gaming platform.

The ONLY reason I use Windows is because I am a gamer.

chino_ · Post by **chino_** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:00 pm

Count me in!

Kralizek · Post by **Kralizek** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:46 am

Cosmin · Post by **Cosmin** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:51 am

Three months later... #4370

mmealman · Post by **mmealman** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 2:41 pm

Apparently someone from Loki is working on WoW at Blizzard and would be able to do the port from the Mac OS X version if there was enough interest.

http://www.blizzplanet.com/modules.php? ... le&sid=552

chino_ · Post by **chino_** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:07 pm

way to go till 20.000 ...

Cosmin · Post by **Cosmin** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:27 am

Still, the word is spreading fast. Today the counter is at 4636. WOW!! That's ~300 in less than 24 hours. Well, some of them might not be real, but anyway, this means almost 10.000 people/month (a rough estimate)

SoulSe · Post by **SoulSe** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:32 pm

This is great, wish it happened more often.

Blizzard are an important one to crack. Id and Atari (yes, and Bioware) are all (sort of) on board. But with Blizzard doing their titles we'd have a nice variety available.

chino_ · Post by **chino_** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:59 pm

Well, after the release of cedega I don't know how this might affect blizzards consideration... cause wow is said to be playable with it!

supernovae · Post by **supernovae** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:27 am

Signed #4743

Sanius · Post by **Sanius** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:43 am

floam wrote:Sorry, but online petitions are useless. Not signing.

right, this is why petitions don't work. people jump the bandwagon of "OMG ANTI PETITION". more and more native linux ports will never work if linux users do not unite and try to let companies know that there ARE linux users that care for what they sell. mmkay?

krejler · Post by **krejler** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:09 pm

I signed up for the european WoW-betatest a couple of days ago.
I was surprised to see Linux on the list of selectable operating systems.
I don't know how Blizzard is going to handle this... Could be a native version? Are they going to give betatesters a copy of Cedega?

EDIT:
Fixed some typos

DuF · Post by **DuF** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:02 pm

krejler wrote:I signed up for the european WoW-betatest a couple of days ago.
I was surprised to see Linux on the list of selectable operating systems.
I don't know Blizzard is going to handle this? It could be a native version? Are they going to give betatesters a copy of Cedega?

We need to know more about this, if they really prepare the good solution (a linux native client) it will be so great !!

Ansur · Post by **Ansur** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:05 pm

It would indeed be nice to have a company like Blizzard supporting linux. Now let's start a HL² petition