Want to get Battle.net on your Linux system like SteamOS and Steam Deck?

I would totally want to if microshaft weren't involved! I'll never forgive them for their evils. 😄

I used to play WoW all the time (with some slow periods) until the news broke µ$ was buying them. I deleted everything.

From Vanilla stumbling around with no idea what I was doing until WotLK and then worked my way up to co-lead and eventually Guild Leader a few expansions later. We had a great time and even had our own website! Then they changed things and basically made guilds irrelevant.

I played Hearthstone, too. Made it into the Top 40% for N.A. before one of the big changes. Then I crunched some numbers and already knew I was spending too much time in the "game" and quit.

Maybe if the FTC ever grows teeth and starts breaking up enormous megaliths of companies and Blizzard becomes it's own thing again and these games continue, I'll get back into it.

Fat chance! 🤣

addendum:
1) great guide!
2) WoW did have a proper GNU/Linux client in beta. I attempted numerous times over the years to get them to just officially support it (again?) and while some CS folks were supportive and agreed it obviously never got anywhere.

Somewhere down the line they got fully entrenched with nvidia and directx and all that. That was part of the problem. For a long time those softwares just did not play well with non-windows machines.

Other than that, given how big of a company they are, they really have no excuse. They should've been fighting nvidia to support GNU/Linux better. Big companies have responsibilities to steer other companies in directions for the greater good, for the benefit of everyone in the long term.

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what’s the actual specific need of a Native build?

To show how great GNU/Linux is and that it's possible to develop games directly for and on it. Doing so gives credibility.

The fact that they're making so many other games compatible via Proton is proof in itself that Proton works as well as it does.

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The second paragraph in the OP makes me want to buy it. Although, I do wholeheartedly agree with @Cley_Fey ....

I wonder why they can't offer two versions to install. One that is offline other than LAN without any weird anti-cheat stuff and one that has online multiplayer functions with EAC.

It seems like it would be easy for devs to build+ship a "vanilla version". They ought to consider that from the very beginning and make it standard practice! While I am against the notion of anything potentionally intrusive, I also realize that there are too many people and bots out there aiming to exploit only for self-gain.

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Early Sept so when people go back to school they can go to school.

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“Obviously, in the first game, the number one request was to have a human faction,” said Wardell.

humans are exactly what I am not interested in. Unless I am massacring them. 😈

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I suspect there will be a refresh to AMD's latest CPUs for the lighter lappys in the near-ish future.

I almost bought an AMD CPU + GPU high end lappy a couple years ago. Just couldn't afford it at the time. Now I've only got the 512GB pre-order Deck and am hoping to get the Zotac Handheld 2 w/ Manjaro and Atari Gamestation Go. Give me a good docking station or two and that's all I need!

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Anyone know what's lacking with Xiph's Theora?
https://www.theora.org/ [External Link]

I've always enjoyed FLAC, Vorbis, and Opus (set to ~220 to 300 kbps range rather the suggested ~160kbps mind you).

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Hasn't anyone ever heard of mounts?

Doesn't, like, every MMORPG have a ground or flying mount?

You know how many I had and how often I've flown around on windriders, dragons, and all kinds of other animals and machines in WoW or other games? Don't even tell me activision-blizzard paid nintendo for this feature. 🙄

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Lmao this sounds great!

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Hm. Slightly aside here? I think it would be really cool to have a section for Android games. Particularly DRM free, tracker less or minimal, ad free / paid, games. Open source, CC, or libre licenses a plus!
I've got a GPD XP Plus and while it's great, I'm having a hard time finding decent games to play. 😅

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