World of Warcraft Linux Port Petition

djm

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 · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

really nice

Hope they get enough votes to release WoW for Linux

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject:

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 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UK

signed

231

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

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Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject:

signed, #306
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floam · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject:

Sorry, but online petitions are useless. Not signing.
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DuF · Advocate Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 2687 Location: Paris

Maybe useless, maybe not !

Signed, #339

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mrmodin · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 1:30 am Post subject:

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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floam · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:47 am Post subject:

Wrong. Some guy who's talked to a guy at blizzard has made an install script that uses wine.
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Coign · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Vail CO

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.

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chino_ · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:00 pm Post subject:

Count me in!

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Cosmin · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:51 am Post subject:

Three months later... #4370
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mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

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?name=News&file=article&sid=552

chino_ · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject:

way to go till 20.000 ...

Cosmin · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:27 am Post subject:

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)
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SoulSe · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject:

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.
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chino_ · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject:

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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Signed #4743

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krejler · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:09 pm Post subject:

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 :oops:

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Ansur · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:05 pm Post subject:

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

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