On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:17:09 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The state of WoW on Linux
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>> | During the dev panel a few minutes ago, Tom Chilton told us something
>> | interesting about playing World of Warcraft on the Linux platform --
>> Blizzard
>> | has actually had it working. For "compatibility purposes," they
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>> | had an internal build of the game that worked on Linux. `----
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>> http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/06/28/the-state-of-wow-on-linux/
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> Wow... how many years later and they finally have a "internal version"
> that for some definition of "works"... it sort-of finally works on
> linux.
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> Newsflash for linux users who are all excited that someday they'll get
> World of Warcraft.... you're about 4 years too late as the game was
> released for Windows back in 2004. (Mac support was released 3 months
> later.)
Why would you assume Blizzard would release WOW for Linux? I mean, it
would be nice, and if they have the software running they could release
it without much cost, but why do you assume they would?
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