I don’t understand the point of remaking the client. anyone able to explain the benefits of this?
the server itself can and already has been done with Trinity or mangos. why is the client being redone now?
There’s something similar for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. In their case it lets those games run on Linux without any other rain dancing needed. And both work very well, the last time I checked.
IIRC, they also disable or omit some or the telemetry and privacy-invasive stuff. (I mean, why not… if they get found, the full weight of the overpaid lawyers they sic on you will behave as if you did far worse).
No idea if this client does similar, though.
without any other rain dancing needed
Legitimately laughed at this. That’s how I will refer to such debugging antics in the future.
You’re asking this question in the Linux Gaming community? How many native Linux ports have there been before?
I’m guessing it makes the licensing less of a gray area.
You can’t redistribute blizzard’s game, so it makes patches harder to distribute. Some get around it by just distributing the patch, but it’s hard to find that specific version of WoW legally.
Make your own game client, and have people source their own data files.
Interesting. Honestly I’d love to see blizzard endorse something like this and maybe even work with. Though that’s probably far fetched. Ultimately it’s the content that makes them money. This would allow for the possibly of Linux BSD haiku and other native clients as well as possibly arm and riscv native binaries as well. It could “possibly” reduce some Dev load. While also future proofing things.
Blizzard went darkside unfortunately.
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I would guess you’re referencing Turtle WoW? But I have no sympathy for them. They did that to themselves. Blizzard left most private servers to themselves for over a decade. My first experience with Wow was a private server.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of the content generally, not the company. Especially being part of pedosoft now. I mean, honestly that was kind of a lateral move considering Kotik. Or any of the other issues. But turtle in particular was egregious. They weren’t taking small donations in the kitty to help pay for hosting for a server for their friends.They were operating a cash shop and paying for developer’s and much more. Writing new lore and stories built off the back of blizzard’s content.
At some point you have to be like; shit, just create some new assets etc and tell your own story. Something that should be simpler than trying to keep reverse engineering someone else’s content. No one has a monopoly on dwarves, elves, humans, gnomes, litch, orc, trolls etc. They were running a business on blizzard’s own name while competing with them.
At some point you have to be like; shit, just create some new assets etc and tell your own story.
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this is really cool to see, if i can use this with my solo pserver i will be very happy! thanks for posting it!







