Get your pinches of salt ready as this news comes hot off the...Phoronix press and you know what his news is like when it comes to over hyping things up and giving dates that are a couple years wrong...
Apparently Blizzard will be bringing a game to Linux this year but no hints as to what title it could be. It seems it will be another "Ubuntu first" title so we can probably expect a lot more Ubuntu exclusives in the future.
Will be interesting to watch this one play out. I for one hope it is Starcraft 2 as I am very fond of that game and it will be really good to have a first class RTS out for Linux. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Apparently Blizzard will be bringing a game to Linux this year but no hints as to what title it could be. It seems it will be another "Ubuntu first" title so we can probably expect a lot more Ubuntu exclusives in the future.
Will be interesting to watch this one play out. I for one hope it is Starcraft 2 as I am very fond of that game and it will be really good to have a first class RTS out for Linux. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Hyeron 6 Jan 2013
we can probably expect a lot more Ubuntu exclusives ending up in AUR within the first 20 minutes in the future.
FTFY.
More seriously, I couldn't care less. Blizzard, eh? Not a cash cow, sorry. Plus they can stick their DRM where the sun doesn't shine.
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Liam Dawe 6 Jan 2013
Yeah i've no doubt other Distro's will find ways around Ubuntu stuff to get them to work and probably always will find a way!
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Hamish 6 Jan 2013
More seriously, I couldn't care less. Blizzard, eh? Not a cash cow, sorry. Plus they can stick their DRM where the sun doesn't shine.
What is Blizzard DRM like then? The last Blizzard title I have played is Warcraft II. :P
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Liam Dawe 6 Jan 2013
Works a lot like Steam basically.
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Hamish 6 Jan 2013
Why is it that the more developers a studio has, the more scared they are of multiple Linux distros? :rolleyes:
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Hyeron 6 Jan 2013
Why is it that the more developers a studio has, the more scared they are of multiple Linux distros? :rolleyes:
Because the odds increase no one will listen to the one in the corner saying "just go with tgz and be done with it, dammit"?
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Hamish 6 Jan 2013
Because the odds increase no one will listen to the one in the corner saying "just go with tgz and be done with it, dammit"?
Or a MojoSetup installer.... or a NixInstaller... or just like what everyone else has done.
How much trouble has multiple distros done to HIB? I can not think of that much problems that were distro specific.
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I hope for WoW or Starcraft 2
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Hyeron 6 Jan 2013
Works a lot like Steam basically.
Erm... Nope. Steam has this thing called "offline mode". Go try that with Diablo III. :/
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I don't like it that they use it as 'testballoon'.
I think at this point Linux is just getting hyped, the real playercount is going to rise in the next months. If Blizzard would use the figures we now have they might decide that it's not worth it and after that never return.
Is it worth it guys? Are we there yet?
I think at this point Linux is just getting hyped, the real playercount is going to rise in the next months. If Blizzard would use the figures we now have they might decide that it's not worth it and after that never return.
Is it worth it guys? Are we there yet?
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Bumadar 6 Jan 2013
was also on slasdot, anyways... ubuntu exclusives makes me a sad panda, what will be next, kickstarters with goals for other linux distro?
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Liam Dawe 6 Jan 2013
Erm... Nope. Steam has this thing called "offline mode". Go try that with Diablo III. :/
Ah I don't own that, was going by Starcraft 2, guess each game varies on the DRM.
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eldersnake 6 Jan 2013
Interesting stuff.
Well Valve's numbers are already pretty impressive to me. Ubuntu in the Valve hardware survey is almost 1% and that (I imagine) doesn't even take into account non-Ubuntu Linux distros which I'm guessing comes under "Other" so the percentage could even be slightly higher overall. May not sound like much but consider Mac OS overall is a bit over 3% or something... and the Linux client is still in beta. It's promising.
I guess Blizzard is considering testing the waters for these reasons, though it's a pity they have their own DRM and nothing to do with Steam.
Well Valve's numbers are already pretty impressive to me. Ubuntu in the Valve hardware survey is almost 1% and that (I imagine) doesn't even take into account non-Ubuntu Linux distros which I'm guessing comes under "Other" so the percentage could even be slightly higher overall. May not sound like much but consider Mac OS overall is a bit over 3% or something... and the Linux client is still in beta. It's promising.
I guess Blizzard is considering testing the waters for these reasons, though it's a pity they have their own DRM and nothing to do with Steam.
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MaximB 6 Jan 2013
I hope it's Diablo3...........ho...wait.
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Xpander 6 Jan 2013
its quite a waste to port some old games imo.
well at least for me they havent done anything i would play lately. used to play WoW back in the days tho..and still play warcraft 3 from time to time. but the newest stuff is pretty pointless for me..
nothing innovative, just same old shit with new shiny graphics, goes to all activision blizzard titles and activision alone.
also their money milking stuff... bleh from me...
but probably millions will say other things about those games so why not.
well at least for me they havent done anything i would play lately. used to play WoW back in the days tho..and still play warcraft 3 from time to time. but the newest stuff is pretty pointless for me..
nothing innovative, just same old shit with new shiny graphics, goes to all activision blizzard titles and activision alone.
also their money milking stuff... bleh from me...
but probably millions will say other things about those games so why not.
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