Wine on the front page of Reddit

Caleb Hearon caleb at chearon.net
Tue Jul 3 00:18:25 CDT 2012


Hi all,

In a conversation between myself (MaggotBrain on the forums) and Jarrex, 
I expressed some frustration that Blizzard had been banning Diablo III 
users who used Wine.  He posted some of the excerpts I sent him from 
WineHQ, and it quickly got to 17 pages on Blizzard's forums.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5978861022

Then it made the front page of Reddit with 25k votes!

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/vyc4z/linux_users_permanently_banned_from_diablo_iii/

It's likely a mistake on Blizzard's part.  But I thought this might be 
interesting to some people here. It's amazing that this conversation I 
had while at work led to more widespread awareness of Wine (one of the 
top comments on Reddit asks what Wine is).

And Wine hackers- great work, I've just finished playing 2 hours of 
Diablo III and it runs great.

-Caleb
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