I've bought & played about 1 year on warcraft 3, 6 months on starcraft, diablo 2 about 1 year, 6 months on warcraft 2, and 3 years one World of Warcraft(and I continue to play it and pay my bill each month).
I've played all of those games except Starcraft under Linux and wanted to thank you about not putting f*cking protection for us (even on WoW) that unables us to play under Linux. If I buy your games, it's beacause I know I'll probably can run them under Linux.
However, the step between an OSX x86 Mac and an x86 Linux is technically speaking not far and I would be glad to be able to play Blizzard's games natively ! Please make this effort and I'll continue to advertise your games to my friends and play with them on it, just for ever !!:D
About Open Sourcing or free (like free speach) your games, I think you can open source at least old games, like id software does.
I think you can even open source a lot of part of you softwares, in order to have a community like the addon community on wow which is very impressive, it can even save you a lot of work, you just have to focus on the core functionnalites, and the addons will give you the best interface for players.
My WoW runs with about 200+ addons, totally changing the game experience, my interface, but not the way I play as I don't like to play like a bot clicking without thinking to what I do ! I wouldn't have continue to play WoW without any addons as some part of the basic interface just bug (or bugged) me, and you have used addons to see what interface improvement WoW needed, and see the way people wanted to play it... so it's a real benefit for you to open at least some part of your interface to third party developers... So, go deeper please !
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I've bought & played about 1 year on warcraft 3, 6 months on starcraft, diablo 2 about 1 year, 6 months on warcraft 2, and 3 years one World of Warcraft(and I continue to play it and pay my bill each month). I've played all of those games except Starcraft under Linux and wanted to thank you about not putting f*cking protection for us (even on WoW) that unables us to play under Linux. If I buy your games, it's beacause I know I'll probably can run them under Linux. However, the step between an OSX x86 Mac and an x86 Linux is technically speaking not far and I would be glad to be able to play Blizzard's games natively ! Please make this effort and I'll continue to advertise your games to my friends and play with them on it, just for ever !! :D
About Open Sourcing or free (like free speach) your games, I think you can open source at least old games, like id software does.
I think you can even open source a lot of part of you softwares, in order to have a community like the addon community on wow which is very impressive, it can even save you a lot of work, you just have to focus on the core functionnalites, and the addons will give you the best interface for players.
My WoW runs with about 200+ addons, totally changing the game experience, my interface, but not the way I play as I don't like to play like a bot clicking without thinking to what I do ! I wouldn't have continue to play WoW without any addons as some part of the basic interface just bug (or bugged) me, and you have used addons to see what interface improvement WoW needed, and see the way people wanted to play it... so it's a real benefit for you to open at least some part of your interface to third party developers... So, go deeper please !