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Looks like you can't even download the Battle.net client for Linux now (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The button is faded out for me: https://download.battle.net/en-us/desktop

But as soon as I change my user agent suddenly it works 🤔 However starting it with wine gives an error that it can't connect to the server. No more blizzard games I guess

With a previously installed client I was able to buy and download Diablo II: Ressurected, but after starting it it immediately stated that my setup was to outdated to run this game. I highly doubt that, since I have more than the minimum requirements.

I found out that you have to fool the game to make it start: https://forums.lutris.net/t/solved-diablo-ii-resurrected-fails-to-start-with-failed-to-initialize-graphics-device-error/13878/3

Problem was with ingame GPU and driver version detection

The lutris battle.net installer however did not work, and I didn't have the mood to debug it.

Not so surprising, but they don't support linux: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/failed-to-initialize-graphics-device/5896/67

Note: Linux, bootcamp, or running the game in a virtual OS is not supported

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol....

just click the Download Battle.net link in the topbar. or remove the /desktop part of your link. Whoever made this change was incompetent.

Running Battle.net via lutris always causes an error message dialog though, but it can proceed unhindered :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the bar link works fine. I'm no fan of Blizzard these days but this doesn't really sound like anything intentional, they probably just screwed up their mobile browser detection.