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How do I set up World of Warcraft for use with Linux?
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A little off-topic, but it’s kinda tragic how easy it is to install and play WoW private servers on Linux, compared to the official game. Some private servers even have launchers made for Linux. But a multi-billion company can’t manage…
It's not that they can't manage, it's that they don't care.
It's the same thing with every multiplayer game that uses easy anticheat. Getting the anticheat to work on Linux literally as simple as enabling it in config, adding an extra library and creating a new build with that library. Companies can't even bother to take 5 minutes, how can you expect them to bother with something that takes more than 5 minutes.
That's not the case with kernel-level AC, those don't run on Linux at all. They shouldn't run on anything really but that's a different story.
Easy anticheat runs kernel level on windows. The linux version runs in user space.
You're talking about a specific AC. Your OP was a general statement about all ACs. And it's not true because many simply do not offer this option to run in userspace mode only, as seen by battlefield and COD and other games like League of Legends.
Could they? Maybe? We don't know it's a bunch of proprietary black box code anyways.
But presenting it like it's a choice by Dev studios to just tick a box during AC setup is not a valid thing to say about all cases.
The only mention of AC was done by me and I specifically used EAC as an example of devs not caring about Linux. I was not making any generalized statements about ACs on Linux and whether some other ACs would take more effort to get them working on Linux is irrelevant because my point was that if most devs can't even take 5 minutes to get something working they're not going to do something take would take even more time.
That's fair.
I imagine executes fearing the worse with Linux. A customer base restricted by the OS, kept less computer literature, is easier to hold on to?
Hell, If your distro ships docker is easier to spin up your own TrinityCore server than run the official client lol
I played WoW hardcore on Linux during Vanilla, off and on since. But blizzard always said they, unofficially support Linux. To their credit, Battle.Net and WoW always installed without any major issues or special tinkering required. Pretty much my only game, for a long long time, for that reason. Have to agree with you though, at least these days. Linux Gaming numbers have to be closing in on Blizzard official support levels. Tim Sweeney said, 15 million Linux gamers before we could expect a Linux official launcher from them. I imagine Blizzard is in the same boat in that regard. And Youtubers seem to speculate, between 5 and 10 million monthly active users. So, we have to be close.
yep I was going to say this too. actual retail takes a lot to get working, but I play on a small private server and Proton just runs it all flawlessly.
set it up in minutes.
It’s not even the game itself that’s a problem. It’s the shitty battle.net launcher that people always struggle to get working properly.
I've always wanted to try private servers, mainly for a state of permanent WotLK, but I never could figure out how to do it.