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I used to play WoW all the time (with some slow periods) until the news broke µ$ was buying them. I deleted everything.
From Vanilla stumbling around with no idea what I was doing until WotLK and then worked my way up to co-lead and eventually Guild Leader a few expansions later. We had a great time and even had our own website! Then they changed things and basically made guilds irrelevant.
I played Hearthstone, too. Made it into the Top 40% for N.A. before one of the big changes. Then I crunched some numbers and already knew I was spending too much time in the "game" and quit.
Maybe if the FTC ever grows teeth and starts breaking up enormous megaliths of companies and Blizzard becomes it's own thing again and these games continue, I'll get back into it.
Fat chance! 🤣
addendum:
1) great guide!
2) WoW did have a proper GNU/Linux client in beta. I attempted numerous times over the years to get them to just officially support it (again?) and while some CS folks were supportive and agreed it obviously never got anywhere.
Somewhere down the line they got fully entrenched with nvidia and directx and all that. That was part of the problem. For a long time those softwares just did not play well with non-windows machines.
Other than that, given how big of a company they are, they really have no excuse. They should've been fighting nvidia to support GNU/Linux better. Big companies have responsibilities to steer other companies in directions for the greater good, for the benefit of everyone in the long term.