EVE Online for Linux - It's Time to Support the Community

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Hello everyone!

The end of the Windows 10 era is approaching, and more and more players are moving away from Windows in favor of other operating systems, including Linux. Many of us, Linux users, also pay for EVE Online subscriptions with real money and would love to have full support, just like players using Windows or macOS.

Currently, running EVE on Linux is a real challenge - I recently spent a whopping 4 hours just to get the game running! It shouldn’t be this way. Therefore, I appeal to CCP Games: please give us a native version of EVE Online for Linux!

The ideal solution would be the simplest possible version in the form of an AppImage - if that’s not feasible, at least a standard installer. This would save us from the frustration of configuring Wine or other workarounds.

Linux players shouldn’t be left out. Since macOS users have support, we deserve it too!
Let me know what you think - maybe together we can reach CCP and make a change.

Fly safe,

Appeal to CCP Games - copy and paste:
"Dear CCP Games,

We kindly ask for full support for EVE Online players using the Linux operating system.
More and more users are moving away from Windows, and Linux is becoming a real alternative.
Running the game via Wine is time-consuming and frustrating - we want a native version of the game, preferably in the AppImage format or in another accessible way.

Please consider our needs, just as you support macOS users.
Linux players also pay for subscriptions and want full access to the game.

Respectfully,
The EVE Online Linux Player Community
"

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probably never going to happen. CCP outsourced their linux efforts to valve/steam.
after all ccp is just another company that want to increase the profits for themself.

that is good enough to grab your money no need to pay a guy or two to develop something useful.
instead its a better investment to hire guys that have some ideas on how to implement some more micro transactions.

CCP changed a lot from its beginning years as a company.
imo not in a good way.
they are competently detached from the player base.
They pretend to be cool with the community but that is just surface level bullshitting.

last fanfest and their speeches should be proof its all about them and not about you.
they dont like you they only like your money.
they dont give more tools to the players to shape the universe.
they gave themselves more tools to make sure you play the game how they like to.
and to make sure you get tempted by some more micro transactions.

and with this mindset linux is far far away from CCP

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Well then, its time for Linux users to start voting with their vallets. Cancel your subscription, and state the reason for it - the lack of Linux support and constant breakage of running under emulator (wine, Steam, etc) upon any update. That is the only way that can get their attention. Also, in the present situation you are not losing much - stuff broke beyond repair and if they by some miracle fix it before your current paid-for period runs out, you can resubscribe without interruption.

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so explain them opening up their source code for how eve online runs?

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Why don’t they support Linux? Because, unlike Windows and Mac OS, there are 600+ different distros of Linux…

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In other words, do yourselves a favor and pick a single distro and they might support it better.

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They don’t need to support linux. They just need to check that they are not breaking proton compatibility layer with random changes.

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Why don’t they support Linux? Because, unlike Windows and Mac OS, there are 600+ different distros of Linux…

Most distros are based off the same 2-3 upstream distros like Debian or Fedora, who themselves handle applications fairly similarly (commonalities like using glibc, systemd, etc). This just comes off as laughable ignorance in attempt to make yet another “get dunkd on linux nerds, just use windows like a normal person!” remark that no one asked for and adds nothing of value.
A topic closer in relevance would be “600+” games trying to force users to use “600+” shitty game-specific launchers that all suck, don’t work, and serve only to annoy the user and worsen their experience.

They don’t need to support linux. They just need to check that they are not breaking proton compatibility layer with random changes

Well apparently they didn’t bother to check, because the already-precarious workarounds or adjustments needed to run the game under linux appear to no longer be sufficient.

My attempts to reinstall via Lutris required multiple attempts and trying various wine versions (GE-Proton seems to work so far) just for the launcher to show. I have no clue whether the game itself will work but I might update with that.
It’s way too much troubleshooting nonsense just to get a game working that no one should be expected to deal with. It should be a development priority to relieve these issues. Even if developers don’t do their own linux release, valve’s pushing of linux adoption with the steamdeck and proton should be enough to have them go “hey, does this update break usability for linux users running with something like wine or proton?”

What if we convince the publisher that proper linux release gives them the opportunity to sell a bunch of linux-themed microtransaction garbage or something? Perhaps that’s whats necessary to actually get progress in this.

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CCP is just a bit behind the curve. They are massively investing in an NFT game years after everyone with even half a brain cell figured out that NFTs are nothing but s scam. They’ll figure out that Linux has quite a few users, just give them a bit of time. I’m sure it will happen before heath death of the universe, and if not than just shortly after it :wink:

It is what it is. At least with valve and other actually well led gaming companies working on Linux support we do have alternatives to ties us over when CCP breaks things. After all, lately they broke more things on Mac that has “support” than for Linux so God only knows if we actually want more support.

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  • For desktop and laptop computers: Microsoft’s Windows is the most used at 69%, followed by Apple’s macOS at 17%, and Google’s ChromeOS at 3.2% (in the US up to 8.0%), and desktop Linux at 2.9%.
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I had considered saying this but just didn’t want to engage the guy since he’s been all over any thread about any sort of glitch/bug like a beard of bees to the point where he absolutely HAS to be getting paid for this or just has like no life. And I don’t mean no life in the sense that he/she sits all day every day playing eve, breaking only to feed the cats now and then I mean literally without even the cats.

So you already can’t win just on the basis of how much time you can allocate, but then even if you do debunk it, there zero acknowledgement and he/she just carries on saying the same damn thing over and over, maybe slightly changing the wording but… it’s the same, for example in the big thread about the cursed update, he/she was all “oh just upgrade your hardware bro” to anyone who had a problem, and when it was pointed out that a lot of us do in fact have newer hardware, he/she was just constantly trying to find commonalities in order to prove that it was everyone’s fault for some reason, rather than just CCP’s QA being largely mythical.

It’s exhausting. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

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Considering the effort of just checking if you are breaking the compatibility layer financed by others that’s an obvious good move. Miniscule effort and you make some of your customers very happy.

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Seconding this