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djm Arch/Herd Tester
Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 690 Location: Wadham College, Oxford
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject: World of Warcraft Linux Port Petition |
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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) |
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The_Paranoid Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 98 Location: Tübingen/Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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really nice Hope they get enough votes to release WoW for Linux |
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IntergalacticWalrus Guru
Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 513 Location: Montreal QC (Canada)
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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equilibrium Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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signed 231
looks a good game so be cool to have it on linux _________________ kernel 4.15.17-1-equk | i3wm | github |
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Evil Dark Archon Guru
Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 562 Location: Santa Rosa, CA
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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signed, #306 _________________ This post has been over explained for newb-informing purposes.
Registered Linux user 347334
Abit AV8-3rd eye, AMD Athlon64 3500+ 90nm, ATI Radeon x850 pro |
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floam Veteran
Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1067 Location: Vancouver, WA USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, but online petitions are useless. Not signing. _________________ Think about your breathing.
http://floam.sh.nu |
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DuF Advocate
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe useless, maybe not !
Signed, #339 |
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smith84594 n00b
Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 72
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Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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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/topic.asp?topic_id=216712 |
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mrmodin Apprentice
Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 216 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:30 am Post subject: |
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Blizzard games are so well programmed that u can assume they will work in WINE for example, they follow the standards. |
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The Mountain Man l33t
Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 2:42 am Post subject: |
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IntergalacticWalrus wrote: | Hell, apparently some guy at Blizzard is working on a special Wine installer for WoW. |
Where did you hear this? _________________ I suck at signatures. |
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floam Veteran
Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 1067 Location: Vancouver, WA USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:47 am Post subject: |
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Wrong. Some guy who's talked to a guy at blizzard has made an install script that uses wine. _________________ Think about your breathing.
http://floam.sh.nu |
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Coign n00b
Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Vail CO
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:53 am Post subject: |
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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. _________________ <oz> i wonder if i can get a gentoo as a pet
<oz> they are so cute
<ph1zzle> man, that is cute
<ph1zzle> I wonder what they taste like |
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chino_ Apprentice
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 186 Location: /dev/random
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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Count me in! |
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Kralizek Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 81
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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:46 am Post subject: |
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#670 |
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Cosmin Guru
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 447 Location: Bucharest, Romania
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Three months later... #4370 _________________ "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan |
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mmealman Guru
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida
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chino_ Apprentice
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 186 Location: /dev/random
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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way to go till 20.000 ... |
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Cosmin Guru
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 447 Location: Bucharest, Romania
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:27 am Post subject: |
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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) _________________ "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan |
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SoulSe Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Sep 2003 Posts: 134 Location: South Africa
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ AMD AthlonXP 2500+
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chino_ Apprentice
Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 186 Location: /dev/random
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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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! |
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supernovae Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 82
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Signed #4743 |
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Sanius n00b
Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 7
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:43 am Post subject: |
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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? |
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krejler Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 10 Nov 2003 Posts: 142 Location: Denmark
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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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
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DuF Advocate
Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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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 !! |
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Ansur Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 84 Location: Ireland
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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It would indeed be nice to have a company like Blizzard supporting linux. Now let's start a HL² petition _________________ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. |
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