-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 08:49, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/23/07 20:33, Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >>>> Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: >>>> >>>>> At least it's related to Linux :) >>>>> >>>>> To make it short here is the link: >>>>> http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html >>>>> >>>>> If you liked StarCraft (and/or other Blizzard games) then please sign. >>>> Wouldn't it be more productive in convincing Blizzard there is a market for >>>> their products among people who use Linux by buying the Linux versions of >>>> other vendors games instead? >>> Explain to me... what BIG games are there for Linux ... NOT Wine >>> enabled. How many sales will that take a away from Blizzard... the WoW >>> has shown people will use Windows to play it period. Why shoudl it >>> change and cater to 5% that will cause 80-90% of the problems (in their >>> eyes) >>> >>> WoW, you know that MMPORG so hugely successful, best one since UO. >>> >>> Speaking of UO, it has a Linux client at one time. They dropped (and >>> banned) it, it caused 60% of the play problems across the board and yet >>> only about 15 users used it (me being one). >> Wasn't that ~6 months ago? > > No, try 6 years ago. > > Of course they could have done another since then. I haven't played any > "games" since since Unreal Tournament and UT2003/2004. Then when my two > licenses numbers became invalid for online play, I stopped playing > twitch games all together.
Ok. About 6 months ago there was a MMORPG that banned users that play from Linux/Wine. Some over-aggressive and stupid dweeb at the company thought that these customers were bots. After a few days, the company realized the error of dweeb's ways and restored the accounts. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVcEIS9HxQb37XmcRAn9MAKCfEz0lZ+E1kYXqM8o4Q1sWdtadiACg6Tyt 9g1cWjZJQkdq+3uvBlM4KiM= =M9m0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
