World of Warcraft For Linux Petition
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An e-petition is being started invoking all Linux users to request VUGames and Blizzard Entertainment to port World of Warcraft to Linux. Blizzard has been known in the past for their support to PC and Mac users with hybrid games. The aim of the petition is to have a PC/Mac OS X/Linux hybrid. Sam Lantinga, developer of the SDL API and ex-employee of Loki, is known to be Software Engineer of World of Warcraft since 2001. Among his duties in Loki was to port Mac games to Linux.
World of Warcraft fans are hoping that the petition may encourage VUGames to fund the project. Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Neverwinter Nights, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory are among the games that have being ported to Linux by other companies. Knowing the wide-reputation of Blizzard Entertainment, it would be a boost to the Linux community to have a MMORPG of this calibre. NVidia has Linux and FreeBSD drivers, which confirms that the Linux platform is becoming fastly a Gaming market.
