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Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux



On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/23/07 20:33, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[🔎] 20070522202745.GD12491@think.homenet>
> >> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> >>
> >>> At least it's related to Linux :)
> >>>
> >>> To make it short here is the link:
> >>> http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html
> >>>
> >>> If you liked StarCraft (and/or other Blizzard games) then please sign.
> >> Wouldn't it be more productive in convincing Blizzard there is a market for
> >> their products among people who use Linux by buying the Linux versions of
> >> other vendors games instead?
> > 
> > Explain to me... what BIG games are there for Linux ... NOT Wine
> > enabled. How many sales will that take a away from Blizzard... the WoW
> > has shown people will use Windows to play it period. Why shoudl it
> > change and cater to 5% that will cause 80-90% of the problems (in their
> > eyes)
> > 
> > WoW, you know that MMPORG so hugely successful, best one since UO.
> > 
> > Speaking of UO, it has a Linux client at one time. They dropped (and
> > banned) it, it caused 60% of the play problems across the board and yet
> > only about 15 users used it (me being one).
> 
> Wasn't that ~6 months ago?

No, try 6 years ago.

Of course they could have done another since then. I haven't played any
"games" since since Unreal Tournament and UT2003/2004. Then when my two
licenses numbers became invalid for online play, I stopped playing
twitch games all together.
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