Pretty please Blizz! Valve embraced gaming on Linux. Steam works perfectly. You could easily do it. No reason not to. You’d gain subs.
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They’re owned by Microsoft.
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And how many Blizzard games officially works on Linux without the use of other third party tools such as Wine?
LOL they won’t even recompile their launcher for Apple Silicon and you expect them to port it to Linux?
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Proton and Wine have gone a long way in making Blizz games work, but none of them work natively of course because Blizz won’t support it. The previous post about being owned by Microsoft is the real killer. Probably no chance. At least we have Proton! It’s a 98% solution.
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Battle.NET has really gone off the rails over the years.
It used to be really rock solid. Games always updated, logins persistent over weeks and months.
Now I have a job that kills the Agent every 15 minutes because the Agent goes stupid and blocks the updates, requiring a restart. I’m constantly relogging in. I love coming back to BNET to see it spinning “can’t connect”, dead forever without a restart. No “reconnect button”, nope - just kill it and start over.
And then, of course, its always fun when it loses my games and I have to hunt them down again.
This is all “little stuff”, it’s not causing me to starve, attacking my cat, draining money out of my bank account, but it’s just a pain in the neck and a bad citizen.
And there’s no reason for it.
If you haven’t, go into Settings and set it to close Battle.Net completely when your game launches.
I guess there will be a lot of “fun” and fewer games when Apple starts sunsetting Rosetta2 next year. Apple says that they will keep some game functionality going but who knows how long that will last.
i get it, but this is a very small niche market and i don’t think they’re going to spend time on it.
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I didn’t even know it had that option.
I tried it, but it doesn’t really solve the issue.
Since it just closes BNET on game launch, and doesn’t seem to relaunch it.
I don’t mind having BNET always loaded, because then its always updating, always downloading pre-patches, always doing all this maintenance. Which is fine.
I like coming up to my computer, one-clicking “play” and there’s WoW! Yay!
But that’s how its supposed to work, that’s not how it does work today. It’s super fiddly and lets itself fall into inoperable states.
And its a shame, it used to be just a standout client in this space. It used to Just Work.
Agree that it’s small and unlikely for them to do it. However, the move to Linux gaming is growing rapidly. Would love to see them get on board. I think even today it would be justified for the amount of subs they’d get.
yep. i think any hope of alternate OS support ended when microsoft got the keys
Microsoft does not like Linux, so I would say it’s a “no”.
I would say that “Microsoft Games” doesn’t like Linux. Other divisions seem to adore Linux and have even embedded Linux within Windows or make their products (examples: VS Code, Edit, Github) available on Linux.
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There was a time we didn’t use the B.Net launcher. We use WoW to launch the game.
I suspect that just like Linux, it’s less to do with recompiling it, and more to do with whatever anti cheat capability not working on those platforms.
It’s why very few games work on apple/Linux these days if they have a multiplayer component.
I don’t think many WoW users would use Linux. It is not a strong gaming platform, and it would have to be reworked and then two platforms supported, so it will not happen.
I love Linux, but I also know not many actual normal consumers use Linux.
It wouldn’t be.
Not even a little bit.
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It isn’t that hard to set up but like most linux workarounds its temperamental with updates.
Biggest bane of the steamdeck is when they cram those adds into launcher. If there was a box I could check saying I own path of exile stop advertising D4 to me it would go a long way.
And yet they’re putting Steam games in your Xbox client and offering up their Xbox games to Playstation.
Whatever they’re planning on the MS division is funny.
I say do it. It might hurt their trillion dollar bottom line, but I don’t want to use Windows anymore.
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