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Some dev blog from last year <- it seems most people don't realise that part of the eve client is written in c++ and thus is not automatically cross-platform. There is a even older dev blog that mentioned that there is something like 250000 lines of C++ code and about 600000 lines of Python code. Yes Eve is mostly relying on Python and that code should be fairly trivial to compile it for Linux, however the last third of the entire code base is in C++ and will need to be checked thouroughly before it can be shipped to linux users.

If you want to have the opinion of the devs about a linux client then watch this


It is not only about it being hard, but about if it makes sense to do it. The Linux userbase is very small compared to the windows user base and I personally prefer that CCP spends all their efforts on developing the game instead of spending a large chunk of their efforts on getting the game to run cross-platform.


You seem to know very little about software development on the scale of eve. Thinking that it would only take 30-60 day's for the devs to add OpenGL api support (learning the API, implementing AND debugging?, butch please!).

Also stating that converting the client to cross-platform doesn't take away from other aspects game is you showing that you seriously think that the devs are currently just twindling their tumbs. If the devs are converting the client they will not have any time left to work on other aspects of the game.