Maotx writes "CCP's recent support for EVE Online in Linux is now set to be discontinued this March. Released last november 11 11 along with the Mac OS X client, it has failed to share the expected continual growth as seen with Mac client. answer on the EVE Online forums, which includes the e-mail in which CCP announced this decision, suggest that the client was not preferred for Linux users as it did not support the Premium electronic brain* artwork client and did not run as well as the win32 client under Wine. For those who wish to stop playing EVE Online, CCP is contribution a refund towards unused game time. Select quote from the e-mail: 'The answer and commitment we obtained from players like you helped both CCP and Transgaming with our attempts to improve on the quality and stability of the client. Many of us in CCP use Linux and are convinced of its merits as an general expenses system.'"

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