EVE online losing its Linux Client
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they have given up their efforts to maintain a native client. While encouraging that Wine works so well, there is a very interesting debate which could be had as to whether or not this kind of affect is desirable. -Zach
On Sunday 08 February 2009 6:17:38 pm Zachary Goldberg wrote:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss
It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they have given up their efforts to maintain a native client. While encouraging that Wine works so well, there is a very interesting debate which could be had as to whether or not this kind of affect is desirable.
Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead recommending Wine.
2009/2/8 Chris Robinson <chris.kcat(a)gmail.com>:
Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead recommending Wine.
Hm, interesting. Little room for sadness then, party all around!
2009/2/9 Zachary Goldberg <zgold(a)bluesata.com>:
2009/2/8 Chris Robinson <chris.kcat(a)gmail.com>:
Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead recommending Wine.
Hm, interesting. Little room for sadness then, party all around!
Great! Who's bringing the tequila? :D Reminds me of a so-called Linux version of the Sims shipped with certain versions of Mandrake. That was also Sims + Cedega, and from what I recall reading, it broke a lot.
On 9/02/09 3:55, Chris Robinson wrote:
On Sunday 08 February 2009 6:17:38 pm Zachary Goldberg wrote:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/206252&from=rss
It seems that a game studio found that Wine worked so well that they have given up their efforts to maintain a native client. While encouraging that Wine works so well, there is a very interesting debate which could be had as to whether or not this kind of affect is desirable.
Their "native Linux client" was the Windows client on top of Cedega. They're stopping support for the official client running on Cedega, and instead recommending Wine.
Hi, Unfortunately they don't seem to recommend Wine, neither they announce Wine as a supported platform. They just drop Linux support because of "the lack of interest for the Linux client" that no one was using because the game worked far much better with Wine :) A great thing would be that they officially support Wine. Also, if the Mac Wine would have worked better (I know it's Apple crappy X11 fault and native Mac's API drivers cocoa language's fault... but users don't care), it's very likely that they dropped their mac "native" client. François
On Monday 09 February 2009 12:32:51 am François Guerraz wrote:
Unfortunately they don't seem to recommend Wine, neither they announce Wine as a supported platform.
According to http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/11565 they state Wine as the first option for running EVE Online under Linux. Given the, arguable careful, language of the message (stating low numbers of "Linux client" users, as opposed to low numbers of Linux users), it doesn't seem as though they're completely turning their back to Linux. So maybe it isn't an "official" recommendation, but I think it's close enough.
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