Mike Hearn wrote:
(yeah i'm bored :/)
Seems the WoW appdb page (apart from being a great example of what an appdb entry should be like!) recommends users patch their Wine to run WoW properly.
The patch is this one, which I am SURE we discussed before but I can't find the thread! So my questions are:
- Is this working around a bug in WoW? (my guess - almost certainly yes)
Speaking from my own experience with WoW bugs and Blizzard: Unless the bug affects Windows or MacOS users and you can prove and show the exact location of the bug (which functions are called, which arguments passed etc.) Blizzard has no interest in fixing the bug whatsoever.
To prove the 'targeting circle' bug was easy, WoW passed a negative value to an OpenGL function and the bug affected the game on all platforms when running in OpenGL mode (and thus all MacOS users). And yet Blizzard postponed the fix to the next major patch release (with at least two minor releases in between!), even though the patch probably was a one-liner.
I think Blizzard should test WoW under wine or cedega because I believe there are many bugs that are hard to track down and it would be easier to find them when running under another memory layout. I don't think they'll ever to that.
Hell, the guy at Blizzard didn't even want to give credit to the OpenSource community for finding that bug. And frankly, playing without the targeting circles was a major pain and I think many people were happy to see that bug fixed.
tom