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Diablo II Beta Sign-Up Monday
GeekLife.com writes: "Blizzard announced their public beta test. This time there are 100,000 lucky winners. The sign-up is over at ZDNet's Gamespot. " Following up on the first round of beta testing in which only a lucky few got selected, this test round is for stress testing the Battle.Net servers in preparation for release. I (and almost everyone I know) couldn't get in on the last one, so I'm hoping my luck is better this time around.
I'm like a alot of people that read slasdhot. We don't run Windows, or care about Windows-only games. This isn't a flame saying that "blah Windows sucks", but myself, and alot of other readers don't run it. We also don't care about games that are Windows-only, and will never see linux versions.
I think it's time for a new icon for Windows-only games. Maybe Gates holding a sidewinder or something. I would LIKE to filter out Windows-only game articles, but it just falls under "games", and I'd miss stuff I'd want to read.
It's also another opinion of mine, that Slashdot shouldn't be giving free good publicity to a company like Blizzard, that has pretty much given free-software and the whole linux community the finger. Does that mean not reporting on certain things Blizzard does, or only the bad? No, but you also don't have to treat Diablo 2 like it's the second comming of Jesus either.
I'll step off my Blizzard bashing soapbox, but this opionion of "WIndows sucks, but it's ok when Diabalo 2 comes out, and I don't care if it only runs on Windows" is so hypocritical, it's not funny. That very idea is why you don't see more games in linux. Why go though the trouble of making a linux version if the vast majority of linux users are willing to keep Windows around and buy Windows versions of games?