World of Warcraft Linux Port Petition

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Signed it...hmm approx 25000 signatures 25000*15 = $375000 that they aren't catching right now for not having a linux client
Oh and not to forget 25000*50 = $1250000 (over 1 Million dollars) which they missed for people not buying the game because it doesn't support linux!
That is quite alot of money if you'd ask me.

Krogen · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject:

And those are also pure estimates. I don't believe that almost all of those people would buy WoW. Maybe around 40-60% of people who signed this petition would actually buy WoW. And why *15? Doesn't WoW cost around $30?

drescherjm · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject:

I believe the $15 is the monthly subscription price to use the game.
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Krogen · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject:

I see, I thought he was talking about the price of the game.

bdm · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject:

I signed it too!

Although I don't play WoW, I'm always down for porting Windows Games to Linux.

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MasterMind · Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

If you are thinking that they are going to make a port to Linux because of money? You are mistaken. Big time! Every month they get a lot... I mean.. a lot of money! Despite the fact, that the game isn't supported under Linux. So, if we want to have a port... we'll have to go one step beyond petitions...
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CRasch.Net · n00b Joined: 16 May 2004 Posts: 2

Signed, the more games that are on linux the more hardware support linux will get.

drescherjm · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:57 am Post subject:

tylerwylie · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:44 am Post subject:

No reason to sign this, it's not going to happen.
At least Blizzard is better than Sony.

justwantstohelp · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:48 am Post subject:

Signed. *crosses fingers*

SaguratuS · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 33

Unfortunately 2 years later after the linux client leak, reality sets in. I truly hate to say it, but Blizzard will not be releasing a linux client, ever. Regardless of the linux userbase exploding or the number of signatures on the petition, it simply won't happen due to many business related reasons. We can "run" it using wine, which is their excuse for "unofficial" support for the Linux platform. They don't, and won't care about downtime for Linux users during patches or bugs, just keeping a majority of users with an active account.

__Grom__ · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 1

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Signed!
Now 28118 signatures!

Aroween · n00b Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

Signed!!!!

Let's HOPE IT WILL BE on Linux soon.

rei1974 · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

Signed too... I can always support the old linux guys

Anyway they should seriously consider it now... so many people signed!!
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Babali · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject:

Maybe when the computer you will buy will provide linux by default ;-)

otherside · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 179

asbjornu · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 1

As this petition seems to be deleted (or something; it only returns 404 at least), then please consider signing this petition on PetitionOnline instead! It's currently only got 47 signatures, which can't be representative of the total Linux users interested in WoW (or opposite).
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alphacube · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Posts: 38

Signed 449.

we can do better =)
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Frostwarrior · Apprentice Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 165

Actually, it isnt hard at all porting wow to linux. The main blocking task in porting a game to linux is the migration from DirectX to OpenGL.
But oh wait! Wow has already its opengl version! IMHO it needs some tweaks to interact with the linux kernel and the video driver, instead of the hybrid windows kernel, its services and the video driver (which they should be almost the same thing, since ATI and nVidia are the same closed source drivers but with directX stripped from them) and voila.

GODhack · Guru Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Posts: 389 Location: Lithuania

Ya ya and M$ will start rampage on Blizz maybe antiworcraft windows updates or something. Blizzard do not want to risk this.

And bout petition. I have my personal petition I will not buy WoW for sure while they do not make Linux ver.
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Yamakuzure · Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:08 am Post subject:

Nice exhumation of this thread, though...
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