of the playerbase.
EVE steam playerbase is 17% of the EVE playerbase. Steam provides 17% of the EVE players.
What technologies does the Mac use for Eve? QT? Python? OpenGL? Vulkan?
What technologies does the Windows use for Eve? QT? Python? Vulkan? DirectX?
What technologies does Linux have? QT? Python? OpenGL? Vulkan?
What is the player base of Eve? how many?
What is the player base of Mac on Eve?
Whatâs the point youâre trying to make? How many similar technologies the OS use? How EVE can almost run on your different OS?
Itâs not about the similarities, the difficulty lies in where the OS are different enough that it breaks your EVE without extra effort.
And whether that extra effort to get the game running is worth it for such a small market share of players that play on all those different versions of Linux.
It already breaks on older Mac versions, and (end of life) Windows versons.
Yes, and?
Are you saying CCP should fix EVE on older windows versions?
Because I think they should, as the market share of EVE players on older windows versions is probably bigger than the amount of Linux players.
Ahh but there goes the centralised support argument out the window as Microsoft no longer âsupportsâ those platforms that itâs breaking on. Theyâre end of life.
That was an argument earlier in this thread.
No, thatâs a good argument. And probably a good reason why CCP shouldnât support older windows versions even though there is still a part of the EVE playerbase using such platforms.
There is still a part of the EVE playerbase using Linux.
The support was âunofficialâ but it was there. Possibly because, Wine on the Mac, now thatâs gone, the other option is port Mac to Linux now, should be easier if they stuck to cross platform tooling.
Yes, and the big question is:
is the linux playerbase big enough to afford officially supporting them?
I donât have the answer to that, as I donât know the cost and donât know how many linux players there are. But it might not be worth the effort beyond what a Linux dev can do in his spare time.
If done right, Mac and Linux share the same cross platform tooling, Windows is the odd one using DirectX isnât it? They could all use Vulkan or OpenGL. Vulkan is the way forward. Pretty sure Mac doesnât use DirectX.
I wouldnât know, as a windows user I donât have to bother putting much thought in such things. Stuff just works on windows, you know?
Lol, I know it doesnât.
Linux is so terrible they now have Ubuntu for Windows Linux subsystems and Android subsystems with W10 and W11 (even POSIX and unix subsystems, even mac is Unix certified and POSIX).
It shouldnât be a major stretch to do a Linux native client after the Mac native port.
I guess you donât have a link.
Support was âunofficialâ, it was done in spare effort time, but it was there.
I had a thread with it in the Linux sub-forum discussing this very thing.
The Mac native port, changes things, potentially opening the door for a Linux native port.
Before it was Wine.
So theyâre doing their best to include players who use Linux, even in their âspare (effort) timeâ and you still complain about it? Donât you feel the least ungrateful?
Not at all, I (and other Linux gamers) was (were/are) a PAYING customer.
Whom should be ungrateful? The PAYING customer, or the company thatâs getting paid by the customer?
Your argument is the wrong way around in a business world.
I feel no ungratefullness for being a subscribing customer. NONE AT ALL, WHY WOULD I?
Should I be ungrateful to a bank for lending them money? Should I feel ungrateful to a company for buying something?
Your argument is ludicrious.
Sure I understand the customer-business relationship but when a business does its best to accommodate, I donât think itâs a good idea to complain.
I think itâs a great idea to complain and shout loudly as a paying customer, I still am and still use Linux, they still get Omega gamers donât they. I still spend in their store.
I guess I donât understand your sense of entitlement.
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What entitlement? I am PAYING, if I cannot run the game, I stop paying, simple really.
If anything I AM A SECONDCLASS UNDERSPECIES OF A PAYING CUSTOMER, HOW DARE I?