On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:05 -0500, Tom Spear wrote:
On 5/10/07, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org wrote:
Does anyone have statistics we can present about how many Wine users playing Blizzard games there are out there?
The closest thing I've ever seen was a steam-based hardware survey Valve released a couple of years ago. Even then, there were tens of thousands of Wine users playing Steam games. With Wine more popular now and World of Warcraft often working better than in Windows, it seems pretty reasonable that there would be even more Wine-based WoW players.
Perhaps we could ask Blizzard to just include a simple test for Wine's registry key in their software and then keep statistics on it.
I dont know about every other WoW player, but given Blizzard's history of phoning home with previous games, I dont know how comfortable I would be with even a check for a wine registry key that phones home every time I play WoW.
If you're not comfortable with a Wine registry key being checked for, you definitely should not be playing WoW. The software already checks for a ton of far more personal data.
Thanks, Scott Rtichie