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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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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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Quoting: "Hyeron, post: 7538, member: 223"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 Jan 6, 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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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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