CCP Games drops Linux client support for EVE Online

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Honestly, I don't believe most Linux EVE players will consider this a problem or a reason to stop playing. Playing the straight-up Windows EVE binaries under plain WINE has been a common practice for some time now. Also, since the same technology is used by Cider, if CCP continues working with Transgaming to maintain the Mac OS X user experience, EVE should continue to work just fine under WINE.

The above being said, CCP is definitely making an intelligent move in dropping official Linux support. Those dollars and man-hours can be invested far more wisely.

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Mabey they could look at helping the people who support the wine compatibility for EVE in fixing some bugs? I know that setting up eve under wine isn't as simple as just clicking install, but there are a couple of extra files I feel the should include (A .dll and the microsoft core font set are needed to play but don't come with eve)

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Agreed. The Linux client didn't work nearly as well for me as running the Windows client with WINE. (Actually, that may partially explain why so few people used the Linux version in the first place.)

From my perspective, dropping the Linux client is a smart move. I don't think either CCP or most Linux users will miss having it.

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