CCP To Discontinue EVE Online Support For Linux 299
maotx writes "CCP's recent support for EVE Online in Linux is now set to be discontinued this March. Released last November along with the Mac OS X client, it has failed to share the expected continual growth as seen with Mac client. Feedback on the EVE Online forums, which includes the e-mail in which CCP announced this decision, suggest that the client was not preferred for Linux users as it did not support the Premium graphics client and did not run as well as the win32 client under Wine. For those who wish to stop playing EVE Online, CCP is offering a refund towards unused game time. Select quote from the e-mail: 'The feedback and commitment we obtained from players like you helped both CCP and Transgaming with our attempts to improve on the quality and stability of the client. Many of us in CCP use Linux and are convinced of its merits as an operating system.'"
I guess it's EVE Offline (Score:3, Funny)
...if you're running Linux ;-)
Re:Makes you wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I felt a great disturbance in the Force... (Score:5, Funny)
Fixed. This is Eve Online we're talking about after all, and not World of Warcraft...
migration path (Score:5, Funny)
CCP is encouraging users of the Linux EVE client to upgrade to the OpenOffice.org Calc application.
Re:Makes you wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
The usual way is implying that Microsoft paid them off to kill the Linux client. Considering the state of the Icelandic economy and the number of people actually using that client, I think that probably amounted to mailing them a really nice fruit basket.
Re:Competing with itself?! (Score:1, Funny)
OMFG, where did you learn how to read? You can't possably be this fucking stupid?
Re:migration path (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Makes you wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Competing with itself?! (Score:4, Funny)
Also, since there's really not a lot of difference between BSD and Mac, hardcore linux users can easily partition and install BSD instead and run a modified version of the Mac program. What's one more distro to install?
ROFLMAO
Windows kind of has a POSIX API, and Linux kind of has a POSIX API, so why don't we just run a slightly modified version of the Windows client on Linux?
Linux is open source, so why don't modify the source code to run on it?
Leverage the POSIX layer in Windows to install the latest service pack on Linux, thereby fooling the Windows client into thinking it's really running on Windows?
Install Windows into Linux, forcing them to assimilate?
Z/OS is sort of similar to AIX, which is a UNIX, and Linux is "unix-like", so why don't we run Z/OS under Xen, then we can use mainframe-like power to evolve a native EVE client from random bit soup?
I still think yours wins.
Re:My first attempt at a soviet russia joke... (Score:2, Funny)