CCP annonce la fin du support du client Linux

CCP Whisper, en charge des clients Mac et Linux, justifie l'arrêt du support par le nombre très réduit de joueurs sur cet environnement par rapport à son alter ego sur Mac.

De plus, selon CCP, le coût du maintien de trois versions parallèles du jeu est trop élevé et ne permet plus de justifier la conservation des équipes et du matériel dédiés au développement du client de jeu sur Linux. ceux-ci seront réaffectés dans d'autres équipes et aideront au développement de divers pans du jeu.

CCP Whisper remercie cependant tous les joueurs Linuxiens pour les retours et rapports qu'ils ont effectués. Ainsi qu'il le dit, cela a permis tant à CCP qu'à TransGaming, l'éditeur du moteur permettant de faire fonctionner le jeu sur Linux, d'améliorer leurs outils.

Si vous jouez sur Linux et décidez d'arrêter votre abonnement, vous pourrez demander un remboursement de votre temps de jeu restant en envoyant une pétition dans la catégorie "Billing".

Enfin, même si le support officiel est arrêté, vous pourrez continuer à jouer via plusieurs programmes tiers. Vous en trouverez ci-dessous les méthodes d'utilisation.

Wine:

To install Wine either use your distributions package management software or download the sounrce and install it manually.  Information on how to download and  install Wine for a few distributions can be found here

To install EVE using Wine follow these steps.
1. Download the Windows client from our homepage
2. Right click on the EVE client installer and select "open with Wine Windows Program Loader"
3. This starts the EVE client installation process.
4. Follow the instructions here to get EVE to run fully.
4. When complete simply run the EVE Online Client using the Shortcut created on your desktop.


Wine-Doors:

Wine-Doors is a frontend application for Wine and includes easy installation for a number of additional programs and games with easy installation procedures.  Wine-Doors binaries and sources can be found here

To install EVE using Wine-Doors follow these steps:
1. Download the Windows client from our homepage
2. Start Wine-Doors
3. Find EVE Online in the list of available applications and press the install option behind it, then press Apply.
4. Navigate to where you saved the EVE installer and press Open.
5. This starts the EVE client installation process.
6. Install all Windows Fonts available
6. When completed simply go to Applications --> Wine --> Programs --> EVE and select EVE Online to start.


PlayOnLinux

PlayOnLinux is another frontend application for Wine which also includes easy installation for a number of programs and games. Download the binaries from here

To install EVE using PlayOnLinux follow the these steps.
1. Download the Windows client from our homepage
2. Under File select Install
3. At the bottom of the window you see a text line "Install a .pol package or an unsupported application".  A new window appears.
4. Select Manual installation and press NEXT
5 A wizard is started, press Forward
6. Select "Install a program in a new prefix"
7. Name the Prefix EVE ( do not use spaces ) and press Forward
8. Browse to the location where you saved the EVE installer, select it and then press Forward.
9.  Now begins the Installation process for the EVE client itself.
10. When the EVE client has completed installation untick "Run EVE-Online" then press Finish and then Forward.
11. Say yes to creating a shortcut to the Application
12. Press Browse and navigate into the Program Files\CCP\EVE folder, there select eve.exe and press open then Forward.
13. Name the shortcut ( i.e. EVE Online ) and press Forward.
14. Select where you wish the shortcut to be displayed and press Forward  then press No.

Install the Microsoft Fonts

1. Under File select Install
2. Select the "Other" category
3. Here select Microsoft Fonts and press the Apply button, then Forward
4. Select EVE as the target  prefix and press forward.
5. When done, press forward.

Install DirectX

1. Under File select Install
2. Select the "Other" category
3. Here select DirectX 9 : June 2008 patch  and press the Apply button, then Forward
4. Select EVE as the target  prefix and press forward.
5. After downloading the window closes automatically.

EVE can now be run normally

Cedega
1. Install the Cedega application
2. Download the Windows client from our homepage
3. Start the Cedega Gaming Service application
4. Press Install
5. Under  GDDB Profile  drop down box select EVE online and browse to the EVE client installer file under Program.
6. Press Continue and the EVE client installation is started.
7. When the client installation is completed use the Cedega Gaming server Application to launch EVE.


CodeWeaver Games

1. Install the Codeweavers games application
2. Start the CodeWeaver Games application and select EVE Online from the options list and press next.
3. The installation process takes care of all requirements so there's not much else you need to do at this point but wait for it to complete apart from pressing Yes and Ok  from time to time.
4. When  the installation is complete untick "Run EVE-Online" and press finish.
5. The application finalizes the installation proces, when finished press Finish.
6. Start the EVE client by double clicking on the EVE icon on your desktop.

Etant personnelllement joueur sous Linux, je peux comprendre la décision de fin de support. Le client Linux est basé sur Eve Classic, dont la fin de vie est annoncée. Il est donc compréhensible que tous les clients associés soient eux-aussi arrêtés. Espérons qu'une nouvelle version arrivera bientôt.