Dear Blizzard, you make very good games. I remember playing countless hours of WarCraft II: Battle.net edition many many years ago, aswell as Diablo and a huge amount of Diablo II (so much that I own two Diablo II CD keys at the moment). Friends have also played and gotten seriously hooked on WoW.
However, I am not able to play these games properly on my platform of choice, Linux. I can resort to wine, which I hear run at least WoW well, but what I would like is official support. As far as I've heard there's a Linux client somewhere in the Blizzard offices, I would love to get my hands on it and would really appreciate an official release (I'd buy any game for Linux you'd release, because I have yet to see a low quality game from you). I would also really appreciate being able to play Diablo III on Linux.
Please reconsider releasing Linux versions of your games, I will buy them, and I'm certain many many others will aswell. A Linux version does not have to be open (though I personally use exclusively free software, the single exception I make is commercial games).
PlaneShift is a pretty nice open source MMORPG, it's still in development and I don't really know about the current userbase though. Check http://www.planeshift.it
Eternal-Lands is also looking good and should be farily playable http://www.eternal-lands.com
I don't really know about the current userbase but I'm about to try it again:)
Also there is Arkanae https://arkanae.dev.java.net/- I don't really know anything about that one though. Then you have WorldForge which I really haven't had any luck with, and I don't really think it is in a playable state anyway (http://www.worldforge.org). In addition to those you have http://www.genecys.org/ - don't really know much about that one either.
So theres a few going on:)
I know with the current tech they reach a lot of customers. And thats really great.
But if Nokia really does that, which they probably will attempt to someday. I do hope that it wont me much sucessfull. But you never know, most people don't really know what their buying when their buying a mobile phone: "Ooh! Games! Oooh! Ringtones - yaay. I'll take it".
And most people do buy Nokia because they think they are best (stores have been recommending Siemens over Nokia for ages) - and if they start making games that ONLY run on Nokia (like some java games do already:/) well, then we might get this mess.
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Dear Blizzard,
you make very good games. I remember playing countless hours of WarCraft II: Battle.net edition many many years ago, aswell as Diablo and a huge amount of Diablo II (so much that I own two Diablo II CD keys at the moment). Friends have also played and gotten seriously hooked on WoW.
However, I am not able to play these games properly on my platform of choice, Linux. I can resort to wine, which I hear run at least WoW well, but what I would like is official support. As far as I've heard there's a Linux client somewhere in the Blizzard offices, I would love to get my hands on it and would really appreciate an official release (I'd buy any game for Linux you'd release, because I have yet to see a low quality game from you). I would also really appreciate being able to play Diablo III on Linux.
Please reconsider releasing Linux versions of your games, I will buy them, and I'm certain many many others will aswell. A Linux version does not have to be open (though I personally use exclusively free software, the single exception I make is commercial games).
Both my parents run Mandrakelinux so I don't have to install any of that junk:)
November? I think it's suppose to be released in August.
PlaneShift is a pretty nice open source MMORPG, it's still in development and I don't really know about the current userbase though. Check http://www.planeshift.it
:)
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Eternal-Lands is also looking good and should be farily playable http://www.eternal-lands.com
I don't really know about the current userbase but I'm about to try it again
Also there is Arkanae https://arkanae.dev.java.net/- I don't really know anything about that one though.
Then you have WorldForge which I really haven't had any luck with, and I don't really think it is in a playable state anyway (http://www.worldforge.org).
In addition to those you have http://www.genecys.org/ - don't really know much about that one either.
So theres a few going on
I know with the current tech they reach a lot of customers. And thats really great. :/) well, then we might get this mess.
But if Nokia really does that, which they probably will attempt to someday. I do hope that it wont me much sucessfull. But you never know, most people don't really know what their buying when their buying a mobile phone: "Ooh! Games! Oooh! Ringtones - yaay. I'll take it".
And most people do buy Nokia because they think they are best (stores have been recommending Siemens over Nokia for ages) - and if they start making games that ONLY run on Nokia (like some java games do already
Let's just hope that wont happen.
I wonder when a market for "wine" like emulators for mobiles will come. Not counting the Ngage emulator for siemens.
"Transmobile introduces the brand new NokiX 2.3.
NokiX is a portability soloution which allows Nokia games to run seamlessly on any Siemens mobile."
"Transmobile introduces the all new SiemX 1.0 which allows NokiX to run seamlessly on any Motorola mobile"