15 Years of StarCraft — And Still No Native Linux Support. Blizzard, This Is Disgraceful

StarCraft II General
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Dear Blizzard Team,

I have been playing StarCraft for over 15 years. I proudly own every version of StarCraft II as well as StarCraft Remastered. I grew up with your games and believed in your legacy.
But now, my frustration and anger have reached their peak.

In all these years, Blizzard — once a legendary company — has failed to deliver proper Battle.net and StarCraft II support for GNU/Linux users. Not even as a gesture of prestige or respect to the loyal gaming community that kept your titles alive for decades. This is not just disappointing — this is disgraceful.

Today, thanks to Steam and Proton, it is technically possible to launch Battle.net and play StarCraft II on Linux. But let’s be honest — it’s a constant nightmare. Frequent reinstalls, endless tweaking, unstable workarounds — playing your games now feels like forcing a square peg into a round hole. It’s exhausting and insulting.

Meanwhile, Valve and visionaries like Gabe Newell champion Linux gaming, proving it’s possible to respect players without forcing them into OS servitude. They made it possible — though still painful — for us to play your games on Linux when you chose to abandon us.

Blizzard’s decline isn’t just financial — it’s a collapse of principle. Your legacy now hinges on half-measures and neglect, while others earn immortality by empowering gamers. I dream of the day when companies like Valve — who fight for players — fully replace those who have forgotten their roots.

Right now, I feel just like Zeratul when he was killed by Artanis — betrayed by someone I trusted and respected for so long. That pain and disappointment run deep.

Fix this. Or fade into irrelevance, as you seem to prefer.

Shame on Blizzard. Long live Gabe Newell and Valve.

Regards,
AshJWilliams aka SuperMurloc
A very tired and angry Linux StarCraft player

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Alternatively you could run a virtual machine and inside the game.

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I’m honestly surprised it took over 15 years for a Linux user to realise that Blizzard was never going to offer native Linux support. Realistically, why would anyone expect them to? It’s pretty much standard practice to use Windows for gaming these days. If that’s something you’re not comfortable with, maybe it’s just better to step away from PC gaming altogether.

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Is the poster above part of the blizzard team, to whom the OP was addressed? I suspect it would’ve been apparent if they were, so I assume not.

Anyway, thanks for this thread, because it demonstrates clearly that, when Blizzard directs someone to the forum who has feedback for Blizzard specifically, Blizzard themselves will not read it and will instead count on that feedback to attract snarky replies from people to whom it’s not addressed. That way Blizzard don’t have to collect or read it, and the one leaving feedback will be discouraged enough to refrain from leaving feedback in the future. Two birds, one stone from Blizzard’s perspective I imagine.

To me, breaking feedback loops is a nail in the coffin more than anything. Disappointing.

I’ll not be using the forums for leaving my own feedback, that’s for sure, lest I get “advice” to stop playing games if I too have an issue with something.

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Is not like that, maybe they read just do no have the budget for it!

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I’m positive that starcraft II was being released in 2009 here in Finland (europe). As I remember the past I came back from army and it was already being released June 2009 (and has been for some time).

It’s really weird but if we have not been throught some weird time paradox then just simply the wikipedia page must have false information about it being released july 2010.