On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 12:05 -0500, Tom Spear wrote: > On 5/10/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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