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Do you think Steam is ever going to add EVE to their Linux games?

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bacon lettuce tomato
#1 - 2014-09-03 20:43:42 UTC
http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

Do you know if Valve has mentioned anything about EVE, or is this something CCP would have to do (hahaha Roll)?
Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#2 - 2014-09-03 20:57:36 UTC
Probably not unless CCP officially support Linux again. Which may never happen.

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DJentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#3 - 2014-09-03 22:35:01 UTC
As long as everything keeps working as well as it does via WINE, I will not complain :)
Ima Wreckyou
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#4 - 2014-09-03 23:13:05 UTC
I think the easiest way to go about this is not if CCP supports Linux per se but wine as a platform, maybe one of the stable releases. This way they need only one client and it runs on all three platforms: Win, Mac(wine) , Linux(wine). On the other hand I don't think a portable EVE client is something they consider if they go into the direction of DX11.

Evil RatKid
Jur Tissant
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-09-04 03:34:26 UTC
There is no native Linux client. This should be a minimum requirement for games to be listed as Linux games on Steam. Otherwise Steam would have to install Wine and then install EVE within Wine which seems not only excessive but prone to error.
Vyl Vit
#6 - 2014-09-04 04:14:21 UTC
Mentioning Steam here soils the pristine nature of the board.

Paradise is like where you are right now, only much, much better.
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2014-09-04 04:23:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Remiel Pollard
Why would you get EVE through Steam? Why would you get anything at all from them? That's what confuses me, Steam are terribad.

Let me highlight a scenario for you: you buy a pair of jeans from a store, wear them once, and discover loose stitching. It's so bad that the jeans become unwearable. You go back to the retailer....

And they not only refuse your refund, but apparently, the entire batch of that particular brand and type of jeans has bad stitching, and they're refusing refunds from everyone else. Worse, they are still selling those jeans. They even have them out front of the store, pushing them in a promotion with a big sign saying "NEWEST LINE OF JEANS FROM AWESOME COMPANY!!!" with little review quotes that say, "best stitching ever, these jeans deliver" and other echoed sentiments of a similar nature. They continue to sell the badly stitched jeans to unsuspecting consumers for weeks upon weeks, knowing they are faulty, but refusing all refunds.

Well, that was X-Rebirth in a nutshell. **** Steam, and **** Valve.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104
Lykouleon
Noble Sentiments
Second Empire.
#8 - 2014-09-04 05:49:34 UTC
People mistaking a content delivery system and the owner of said content delivery system as being the ones responsible for the development of content delivered by their system: checkbox.

Lykouleon > CYNO ME CLOSER so I can hit them with my sword
Remiel Pollard
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-09-04 06:47:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Remiel Pollard
Lykouleon wrote:
People mistaking a content delivery system and the owner of said content delivery system as being the ones responsible for the development of content delivered by their system: checkbox.


Someone confusing digital content as something other than a product or service that can be sold by a retailer: checkbox.

Steam is responsible for the content you're delivered by them, that's why Valve takes your money. That's why Valve marks up the price, not the developer. If Valve is marking up the price, if they're taking my money as the retailer between me and the developer, then they are responsible for my refund.

I gave the analogy above expecting your interpretation from the get go. The jeans maker is responsible for the ****** jeans, yes. But the retailer is who I gave my money to. They can damn well give it back, and stop pushing ****** jeans.

Besides all that, Australian law is quite succinct and precise on the matter.

“Some capsuleers claim that ECM is 'dishonorable' and 'unfair'. Jam those ones first, and kill them last.” - Jirai 'Fatal' Laitanen, Pithum Nullifier Training Manual c. YC104