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Grifter · #1 Post by **Grifter** » 2006-11-28 18:13

MMORPG is traditionally a genre that has been lacking for linux games, commercially there is one: Vendetta Online, and one more developping a linux client: Roma-Victor, and a third one in development: Atriarch

There's secondlife too, but that's more of a platform than a game

However, a few years ago a game came out called Ryzom, which used the nevrax backend, but this game is about to file for bankruptcy, and the fanbase are trying to collect enough money to buy the game and liberate it to Free Software, a la Blender

http://www.ryzom.org if anyone is interested

kenny · #2 Post by **kenny** » 2006-12-08 16:41

It's a great idea to make the game free to all, when it is, I'll probably try it

Lavene · #3 Post by **Lavene** » 2007-01-03 18:29

http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl? ... 8&from=rss

They didn't succeed...

Tina

thamarok · #4 Post by **thamarok** » 2007-01-03 19:01

craigevil · #5 Post by **craigevil** » 2007-01-03 21:10

Try PlaneShift - A 3D Fantasy MMORPG
http://www.planeshift.it/main_01.html

If your looking for a "free" MMORPG, it is new but playable.

thamarok · #6 Post by **thamarok** » 2007-01-03 21:59

As we are speaking of MMORPGs here, I discovered a wonderful private server for World of Warcraft (since my prepaid card for the WoW public servers expired, I looked for a free private server)
I found WoWscape: http://www.wowscape.net/
Registration didn't took more than 2 minutes and the server didn't lag (I played for 8 hours and no lag in the server)..

You asked how to get WoW? Go and buy it from a game store or get it as a torrent; I'm not responsible for how you get it, illegal or not.

Grifter · #7 Post by **Grifter** » 2007-01-03 22:28

it's silly, blizzard has a linux native wow client but refuse to release it, i don't particularly like blizzard

thamarok · #8 Post by **thamarok** » 2007-01-03 23:26

Grifter wrote:it's silly, blizzard has a linux native wow client but refuse to release it, i don't particularly like blizzard

I agree.. For now I'm using Cedega, but it seems it's possible on Wine too.
Might be interesting: http://www.learninglinux.com/postp734.html#734

dmn_clown · #9 Post by **dmn_clown** » 2007-01-06 14:12

Why do people still support Blizzard? Weren't their lawsuits against freecraft and BNetD enough to get people to stop giving them money? Or is it time for a twelve-step program to break the addiction to Blizzard's games?

thamarok · #10 Post by **thamarok** » 2007-01-06 14:19

dmn_clown wrote:Why do people still support Blizzard? Weren't their lawsuits against freecraft and BNetD enough to get people to stop giving them money? Or is it time for a twelve-step program to break the addiction to Blizzard's games?

Perhaps there's nothing as good as WoW.. But I like Ragnarok more.. here is a Top100 free private server list for Ragnarok if someone is interested:
http://www.xtremetop100.com/ragnarok-online

If you don't know what Ragnarok is:
http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/

I have not got it to work in Wine, but in Cedega it's playable..
Might be interesting:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ro-client/

Grifter · #11 Post by **Grifter** » 2007-01-08 21:22

And what do you know, Second Life (which isn't exactly a game as much as it is a platform, but still) has been available for linux for some time, but a short while ago linden labs who created it released the client source under gpl2

So that means stick-in-the-muds like you ajdlinux :p can finally run second life (:

Grifter · #12 Post by **Grifter** » 2007-01-08 21:23

Here's the link btw:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/01/08/e ... nevitable/

mzilikazi · #13 Post by **mzilikazi** » 2007-04-09 20:01

Turns out not only is Secondlife open source, the host servers actually
run Debian.

Linden Lab chose Debian Linux because the software is suited to scaling massively with a small IT staff,

GMouse · #14 Post by **GMouse** » 2007-04-09 23:27

Grifter wrote:it's silly, blizzard has a linux native wow client but refuse to release it, i don't particularly like blizzard

Where'd you find this?

NeoGreen · #15 Post by **NeoGreen** » 2007-04-10 01:15

Okay, sorry to interrupt guys, but I am new to MMORPG and WoW. I have been playing it for about 1 month now. I have also been paying for it. I cannot believe that you can play it for free!! Man, why didn't I look into this before? thanks for the knowledge

dmn_clown · #16 Post by **dmn_clown** » 2007-04-10 01:39

NeoGreen wrote:Okay, sorry to interrupt guys, but I am new to MMORPG and WoW. I have been playing it for about 1 month now. I have also been paying for it. I cannot believe that you can play it for free!! Man, why didn't I look into this before? thanks for the knowledge

Give it time, Blizzard will sue and use their exorbitant monthly fees to pay the legal bills...

NeoGreen · #17 Post by **NeoGreen** » 2007-04-10 23:15

Man, I didn't realize how bad Blizzard is. I am going to cancel my WoW account with them before they decide to charge me.