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EVE Online's Linux/Mac Client Goes Live Tuesday

Posted by Zonk on from the mmogtastic dept.

The official EVE Online site has details of upcoming patch 'Revelations 2.3'. Along with a number of bug-fixes to the PvP-focused Massively Multiplayer Online Game, this game fix will offer up compatibility with Mac OS X and Linux. Though the Mac client is a native port, Linux will require the used of Cedega. The post suggests that if you'd like a preview of what the game will be like on your rig, you can download the client and tool around the test server. System requirements are also listed, as are the distributions of Linux they are specifically supporting: Ubuntu 7+, Suse 10+, and Linspire 6. Update: 11/04 14:32 GMT by Z : Fixed implication of native Linux client.

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  1. It uses Cedega on Linux by kcbanner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its not a native client. It uses a stripped-down version of the commercial fork of the now-obsolete xwine (what with normal wine having most dx things now), Cedega. People have been running the eve online client under wine and cedega for years now, I can run it under wine and get better fps than windows in some cases :P.

    Anyway, the point is that they didn't actually take the time to write a native client, its simply packaged with Cedega, so this isn't really anything to praise them for.
    I just thought I'd mention that because they don't until it actually starts installing.

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    1. Re:It uses Cedega on Linux by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If more games companies (*cough* Blizzard) would test their stuff with WINE and support it, we'd have a different PC industry.

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  2. Re:Wow! by seebs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, WoW doesn't. EVE does. They keep bragging about how a minute's play can wipe out months of work. Not interesting to me. In WoW, I can lose an amount of money that will take me as much as an hour to earn back. No problem, I can cope.

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  3. Re:So long GPA.... by kripkenstein · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its not a linux port. They simply packaged Cedega with EVE. I wish people would stop praising them for that...its not a native client. Sure, a native port would be better, but this is still a step in the right direction. They deserve *some* praise for it.

    If it lets a few more people not have to dual-boot into Windows to play games, then they are doing something right. Hopefully this will grow the non-Windows gaming market enough so that eventually native clients *are* released for Linux / Mac.

    And as for Cedega not being truly open-sourced, and the games themselves certainly not, well, as a Linux desktop user and FOSS supporter this bothers me. But the fact is, at this point in time hardcore games are mostly a closed-source environment, whether on a console or a PC. Games are different than most typical desktop apps for various reasons. Hopefully in the future this will change, but meanwhile lots of Linux users want to play games, so this announcement is positive news.
  4. "Months of work" by Per+Abrahamsen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > They keep bragging about how a minute's play can wipe out months of work.

    I would never get that far, I refuse to play any game for which playtime feels like work.