BRING IT ON.

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Quoting: reaVerHaving been a Linux gamer for over 15 years now, I very well know and understand the petitioner's frustration and I can very well understand why he's writing in the tone he has. And after this long of a while, even after repeated resources show that the Linux market can be profitable, to essentially get the finger (because that is what Blizzard did) the petitioner is well within his rights to send it right back at them.

How long you have been a Linux gamer isn't an issue, and it doesn't mean anything, to anyone. Neither does how long I've been one (but it has been a number of years for me obviously as well).

I love the Blizzard games, but I wouldn't even think of acting the way he did, and certainly not in public on the petition I would be trying rally support for.

Quoting: reaVerSo I'm hoping you'd bring at least a little more understanding to the petitioner's situation. He's putting in a great deal of effort, he gets belittled by almost everyone everywhere and gets an additional kick in the nuts for good measure. For you people to stab him in the back because you don't like his tone is extremely disrespectful.

A little more understanding? Some random guy pastes his petition everywhere, so we decided (against my better judgment, and only because regular people visiting GOL requested it) to post an article on it to our front page, and thus giving our support of it.

That tiny petition got an open and honest response from none other than the President of Blizzard, and the petition owner responds with what he did, how exactly should we understand?

Yes I understand the developers at Blizzard are mere mortals, but the mere mortals at Techland, Aspyr and others have much more heart for their cause; which is something this blog should emphasize if anything.

We give everyone equal footing. No developer is above or beneath another simply because they don't feel we make business sense just yet.

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Quoting: EikeYou know the answer...
It finally is the year of the Linux (gaming) living room!
Muhahahaha!

Fixed that for you.

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Quoting: Crazy PenguinLOL! Really? We are back on this now? 2% would mean a minimum 2 Million potential Linux customers (based on Steam numbers), which is quite a market share. But what do I care. Blizzards isn't making good games anymore.

*sigh*, going over this argument in IRC right now.

That 2% is an over-estimation, by a lot.

Lots of people (like me), already own their products. You can also be guaranteed a large portion supporting the petition and forum post also already sub to WoW/own other products by them.

The realistic number is far lower.

Edit > Let's cut it in half to 1% for the more likely number of people to actually get their products, based on all that + their heavy DRM a lot of people don't like.

Cut it down again for pre-existing owners and WoW subs from Linux users, and we have a low number.

Remember, we aren't talking about 1-2% of Blizzard's existing big user base here.

You need the developers, you need the support staff, you need to pay them, constantly, and not just once too. You also need extra time for Q&A on the platform, so Q&A staff need pay and time too.

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Quoting: Yaakuro

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: YaakuroSorry but what you are doing will not help either. If the Linux usage would pass a certain amount blizzard would support it because its all about money not being polite.

What are we doing that isn't helping exactly? Apart from pointing out that idiots don't represent us.

Kissing some body parts of blizzard and yes there are gazillions of idiots everywhere and that they do not represent anything. If blizzard would get those comments personally and put all GNU/Linux users into the same pot then I would say never buy a product of them in the first place.

You realise developers, publishers, ceo's, and the like are human too right?

We aren't "kissing some body parts" of anyone here, we are being realistic, and not trying to burn bridges with developers. That's an extremely childish response from you. Sad to see people commenting like that here.

We respect Blizzard's decision.

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Quoting: YaakuroSorry but what you are doing will not help either. If the Linux usage would pass a certain amount blizzard would support it because its all about money not being polite.

What are we doing that isn't helping exactly? Apart from pointing out that idiots don't represent us.

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Quoting: Lordpkappa63 in my library, yours?

370/447, I would call that a happy Liam.

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Update 2: It will still crash to the desktop for me when scrolling through the keybind menus, I did report this to Techland before, and have done, again. It happens on the third screen of the keybinds menu, every time.

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I re-tested the Proteus laptop I reviewed earlier, and on Medium settings at 1080p, it runs very smooth!

See the screenshot on page 2: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-entroware-proteus-gaming-laptop-reviewed-for-linux.5067

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UPDATE: I re-tested this unit with the new Dying Light patch, and with everything on Medium at 1080p, well, it was amazingly playable, see the SS on page 2.

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