Stacraft 2 : Join the petition for linux playability

Greetings everyone.

Starcraft 2, blizzard's upcoming game is going to be released soon (or late) in this year, and I'd like to see it on another thing than windows & mac, named Linux.

Some people under us might know or even use Linux, although, I started to use it and I think it is great.
But I am a gamer too, and if you didn't knew : Linux makes it hard to install some games.

For this, there is a long petition running to get starcraft 2 installable on linux too.
I hope people will join the petition and sign for the support of Linux gamers.
With more luck, Blizzard Entertainment might add on all their new games a Linux game installer.

The link : http://new.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html

I hope some people under you support it.

Regards,
~- Heero

Originally Posted by Heero

Greetings everyone.

Starcraft 2, blizzard's upcoming game is going to be released soon (or late) in this year, and I'd like to see it on another thing than windows & mac, named Linux.

Some people under us might know or even use Linux, although, I started to use it and I think it is great.
But I am a gamer too, and if you didn't knew : Linux makes it hard to install some games.

For this, there is a long petition running to get starcraft 2 installable on linux too.
I hope people will join the petition and sign for the support of Linux gamers.
With more luck, Blizzard Entertainment might add on all their new games a Linux game installer.

The link : http://new.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html

I hope some people under you support it.

Regards,
~- Heero

They have already stated that they WONT! And will NOT! Make it for any console nor anything else than Windows and Apple... which will be awesome... lol...
ALL HAIL MICROSOFT!!! lol...
Offtopic: Why don't people want to use Windows operative system? They are a lot more versatile though a bit buggy but who gives a shit.(They usually update them so they won't be so buggy)



On the other hand if they want it to work for linux I guess they have to modifiy it to their needs which may not be legal/allowed by Blizzard.
BTW what is Linux anyway? What kind of an operative system is it?(Only heard bad stuff about it not being reliable as microsoft)
Microsoft should conquer the operative system industry!

Linux wasn't made for games period. Blizzard won't do a linux version.

linux is more a professional system. It's mainly used by programmers and other people. Making a linux-comptable starcraft II version, would be a big waste of money; it wouldn't sell more than 5000 copies. Plus blizzard would be forced to hire employees for maintainance and development of the linux edition.

So soory all those linux users got the short end of the stick due to them choosing a system developed outside the major brand names and with a terrible compatability record (though admittedly not as bad as vista) with little going for it. Really I am, im totaly not being sarcastic here.

Well,
Starcraft 2 could possibly run under Linux too,
BUT, it is just harder to install (I may know how to do it at that period).
Although,
Maybe Blizzard could create a FAQ about how to install Starcraft 2 on a linux system (Linux beginners would need it).

Is not that for DirectX libraries, which run only on windows?

Originally Posted by Mechanical Man

Is not that for DirectX libraries, which run only on windows?

I believe so. But Microsoft don't want other companies to get hold of their secrets etc. so... heh. :)

If the game is Mac-playable, it will have to have a different rendering option than just DirectX. Normally it would be DirectX option and OpenGL option, which seems to be the case.

Now, Linux is much better for doing stuff when you know what you're doing. However, it has terrible game compatability - due to DirectX's prevalence, and also due to game companies not making it for Linux.

Given that, if you know what you're doing, having a dual Linux/XP boot is simple (and, let's be honest, if you're too stingy to pay for XP, getting a pirate version isn't hard). If you like to play games and use linux, then really you need such a dual boot, and if you use linux, you should be able to manage that easily. In addition, given the OpenGL support, making it run in Linux with some compatability software shouldn't be too hard.

All of this basically makes the market for gamers who use linux and don't have a Windows XP/Vista boot very, very small.

Just ignoring everything about Linux missing out on game features, its apparently a real annoyance to port over games to it anyway, which is probably the reason there aren't many Linux ports of games

Can't you just emulate it?

You can emulate windows in Linux,
but there is always a chance that it won't work.

It is almost fun how Windows destroys all compition.

This is totally pointless.

Rather than linux support, they should plug in tons of models and extra content. That way the people who can use it will be even more happy rather than everyone having a slightly worse and more bug filled game.

It's not as if a linux version would suddenly cut down the amount of models in the game...

But not that I care about linux. If you want to game, get windows. Why? Because any game runs on windows. It sounds easier to me to just get windows than to complain to 90% of all game developers that they didn't make a linux compatible version...