I’ve looked around a little, and found some mentions of using Lutris, or running it through Steam (tbh I don’t know how that would work), but I’m not really able to find any guide that explains the process well enough. I’m so used to the game being handled by Blizzard’s Battle.net launcher, so I can’t really wrap my head around how that would work.
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…
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.
Hell, If your distro ships docker is easier to spin up your own TrinityCore server than run the official client lol
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.
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?
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.
low-key advertisement, because this game is pretty fun so far:
I used to play on a private server so I could level up alts fast in order to do the endgame group content. I gave up because even with fast xp you still have to do all of the annoying shit like farming flasks, reputation grinds, etcetc.
Fellowship (on steam) just released into EA and it is basically WoW’s M+ dungeon system without the MMO. It uses a hero system instead of class + talent spec. So, for example, Helena is a hero that plays like a hybrid Prot Warrior/Prot Paladin, Sylvie is a Reso Druid, Tariq is an Arms warrior.
There’s still gear progression and build customization (tinkets, weapon abilities, talents) but you don’t have to do 30 hours of questing to make an alt.
Works just fine on Linux (check protondb, there’s a required command line option).
I’ve heard Fellowship has a bit of a toxicity problem with the players.
It may, but I haven’t seen much communication outside of ‘gg’ after the boss, even on runs where we wiped 3-4 times.
You can disable chat, it isn’t really useful in the fights. I’ll do this is toxicity becomes a problem.
If you know your role and the fight mechanics the UI provides a way to communicate all of the important information. For example, you can mark a target for your interrupt target, and it’ll show your character icon next to the mob’s hp bar along with the cooldown of your interrupt and targets can be marked with overhead icons for designating CC or priority targets.
It’s still EA, so it needs more content and heroes for gameplay variety, but there’s already about 1 WoW expansion pack worth of dungeons. 12 dungeons total. There are 3 capstone dungeons have 3 bosses, the rest are shorter 1 boss dungeons. The bosses are all well designed with interesting strategies and the difficulty ramps up pretty smoothly, with mobs getting more damage and health while adding new abilities to add complexity to the encounters.
It definitely scratches that WoW itch (I haven’t played since Pandaria).