Nothing new or surprising for me.... those scammers have been in my blacklist for a long time with their promised ports and bad PR practices now.
Remember the name "Slightly Mad Studios", people, remember it and remember to never support them ever....

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Quoting: LeonardKFor sure it's a port of this one:
Red Herring on Play Store [External Link]
:D

THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP CONFIRMED!!!!!

Quoting: crunchpasteI guess I'm the only one that did a Wiki search...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring [External Link]

lol
THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP CANCELLED.

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Wow, I had even un-wishlisted this game already thinking that it would never happen since I had never heard about its porting again....
Weeeeeell, I can't wait 'till Friday :)

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Whatever happened to the other Star Wars DOS games that didn't get the Linux love Dark Forces got? :(

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The irony of the petition is that its very existence also negates its purpose (unless, of course, Linux users were to abandon Blizzard altogether).

Do it, just do it, if they are not supporting us so there is no reason for them to see our support towards them....

As for the questions:

I have a Windows partition just for the case of I extremely need to use it.... which I haven’t for years now.... and I definitely don’t use it for gaming. Also, no WINE, if I’m going to use Windows stuff I prefer to just use it on Windows already.
I have been gaming ever since the N64 entered in my life.... ever since before that actually as I already liked playing on my friend’s SNES before that.... so I am definitely not a Linux user first, nor am I a gamer first as I won’t play stuff that are not on Linux or Nintendo (no PSXBox for me), but that doesn’t make me any less of a gamer.... I just won’t let the market dictate me what to use.
The 3rd question is rhetorical by now.
Exactly.
If there is one genre that seriously need to improve on Linux is the fighting genre.... it is almost non-existent here as far as I know.
I won’t lie, my gaming needs are not totally satisfied, of course, but we do have enough games to be satisfied with Linux alone now....

I actually have never felt so much attempted to game on Windows as I feel now after that Humble Star Wars Bundle some time ago.... I am a HUGE SW fan for over a decade now and I have codes for almost every SW Steam game sitting on my HB account waiting for the impossible to happen.... well, maybe they will port more games to Android someday as they did to KOTOR :(

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and I would assume most of those people also have access to a Windows or Mac device capable of playing Blizzard games.

No thank you, you should have assumed we don't like to leave our OS just because we can.... and I will definitely not leave it because of Blizzard.
But I like when companies are honest like that at least.... unfortunately not everybody can deal with reality, through.

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In Ballmer's era Microsoft dropping DX for an open solution/opening DX was unthinkable....
But with a lot of decisions that Satya took since joining them, that is not so unthinkable anymore.

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Quoting: Ilya

Quoting: MetallinatusThe most expensive ones are costing $399 if I'm not mistaken, so yes, it will be a tough competition for the Steam Machines :dizzy:

Not really, you save a lot of money on games. So although the initial prize may be higher, on the long run you're saving money with a Steam box. Plus you can play them on your computer, and on future generations of the "console".

Try saying that to their target market who only looks at the price of the hardware....
They are not aiming those machines at the #PCMasterRace who is always saying that.... they are aiming at the ones we try to convince that.

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Quoting: rick01457So, how much are the current console gen at the moment? These are a bit expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.

The most expensive ones are costing $399 if I'm not mistaken, so yes, it will be a tough competition for the Steam Machines :dizzy:
Well, we can hope for them to do well, but it really won't be easy....

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I gave up playing Dota 2 due to the absolutely terrible community. For a game that requires a good team to play together, the constant quitters and rather angry people do ruin the experience.

For anyone who have problems with that kind of stuff, I recommend creating a team with friendly people that you know it won't be getting mad on your actions in the game....
I myself would like to have enough friends that plays Dota to do that, then I would be able to play online without have to worry about being a burden to a bunch of unknown people :P (that really messes with me)
Maybe you could even create a team with GOL readers that fits the description of "not getting mad" :D

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