Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client

[James Mckenzie]

François Guerraz  wrote:
> Sent: Feb 9, 2009 1:32 AM
> To: Chris Robinson 
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: EVE online losing its Linux Client
>
> On 9/02/09 3:55, Chris Robinson wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 February 2009 6:17:38 pm Zachary Goldberg wrote:
>
> 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.

Since there is not a great Wine audience for the Mac, the Eve Online Mac client should not be abandoned just for that reason.  The real reason may be that there is not a great deal of demand for an on-line game interface for the Mac.  Most Mac users loath having to use X11 for any purpose, and a game tops the list.

James McKenzie