Ready to sink a ton of hours into an MMO but don't have the computing power and / or not working well for you in the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer on Linux? Enter the new EVE Anywhere for EVE Online.
This is a brand new beta that's currently available only in the USA, and it's not a special cut-down browser version. Much like Stadia and GeForce NOW it is the full game experience in the web browser. CCP say it will be supported across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari with no downloads needed and it will work with 1080p at 60FPS.
Why? They say the idea is to "expand the player community of EVE Online, EVE Anywhere removes barriers for newcomers, while providing veterans of New Eden with an extremely convenient way to access their game" and it appears to have been working in their prior tests as they say the early trials "demonstrated that potential, seeing first-time EVE Online players stay for longer, with higher numbers converting into full-time pilots".
In an email to us here at GOL in reply to it running on Linux they said, "Happy to clarify that EVE Anywhere is playable on any desktop OS provided the browser is in our supported list (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari). We've already heard from quite a few players having a positive experience on various Linux distros.".
Nice to see no artificial barriers being put up against Linux and supporting many different browsers is great. Even if you're not a huge fan of cloud gaming / gaming streaming, it really can break down walls for more people to enjoy gaming. Once it adds support for more countries like the UK, we'll give it a go and see what we think.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Huh . . . come to think of it, MMOs are already the "Games that can only be done on the cloud" that Stadia was talking about creating before Google folded the game creation part of Stadia . . .
RandomizedKirbyTree47 Mar 18, 2021
If it's the former, then I will give it a try when it's out of beta. If it's the latter, then I probably won't play it unless I someday move to a country with better internet.
Now that microsoft bought bethesda and id software like all the media say (but they dit not bought these studios, they bought this terrible zenimax and his horrible CEO because they are the same scamer breeds.) I can't believe these people are still not in jail, like ex zenimax ceo who scamed country from middle east and never went to jail because he is a friend of Donald Trump brother.
But I'm getting irrelevant to the topic ^^ Looking forward to try Eve again, especially on linux.
Last edited by Jahimself on 18 March 2021 at 3:37 am UTC
Quoting: XpanderI dont expect them to support all the browsers.. all im pointing out is the wording..they say that it works only with browsers from their supported list, which to me sounds like artificial barrier
Games that support linux are usually Ubuntu or SteamOS, but i dont have to fake my <insert distro> to be Ubuntu.
Its all fine if they officially support those browsers. Its logical to not cover them all.
It comes down to the wording like... "...provided the browser is in our supported list (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)"
There's a difference between "we've decided from the getgo that Chrome on Windows is our singular target any anything else is unsupported" and "we've tested it on the four most popular browsers on the three most popular OSes, these are supported and anything else may not work". The first is an executive choice to artificially limit availability, the second is consequence to being able only test and validate ever so much.
"Supported" means something else in a world of consumer software where once you make that claim, you're on the hook for making sure your paying customers are actually getting what they asked for.
English is not my native language, but still, "provided that" = a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.
Not sure if this is really what they mean, tho (as Xpander pointed out too).
Last edited by kokoko3k on 18 March 2021 at 9:45 pm UTC
Kuduzkehpan Mar 18, 2021
And also i hate streaming services until i got better internet. And they says no download required.
This makes me wonder how many hours I have in WoW.
Anyway, I am not sure if I'm done with EVE forever or not, but it's unique and there are no impatient, super immature kids running around. I recommend it to anyone that likes space ships, sci-fi, risky adventures, markets & economy, manufacturing, transportation, sneaky solo combat, squad-based combat... the list goes on. There was one time that my corp was in a war that we didn't want to be in. We hid the whole corp in a wormhole for a week. I'll probably never forget that experience in EVE. It was strange but cool even if it got boring by the end of the week. There's just not really anything else like it.
Kuduzkehpan Mar 23, 2021
lived 3 months in a k612 system too.
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