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pirateer 2/06/08 3:09:34 PM
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Joined: 5/29/07
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I was wondering what MMO's are currently out that support Linux Ubuntu. I just installed it, but I'm dual booting with Windows. I can get WINE on my Linux partion and set up my games that way, but the thing is I'm tired of doing work to get my games to work *cough* Vista *cough*. If I have to, I will get WINE and make them work that way... but are any out there compatible with Linux straight out of the box?
(Not talking about browser-based)
Hmm... With a bit of searching I've come up with a list of games that should work with Linux. Adding the games you guys came up with, it is a pretty hefty list. Maybe this should be a sticky?
32-bit: AstroMenace
64-bit: Advanced Strategic Command |
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batolemaeus 2/06/08 3:13:12 PM
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Pod Killer
Joined: 9/27/07 |
I know of Eve, Wurm online and Tale in the desert. |
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Sevenwind 2/06/08 4:29:28 PM
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I don't know much about Linux, but I did see this posted on LOTRO forums. If it works with Ubuntu or not I don't know. But seems you can play LOTRO and DDO from linux using this. Hope that helps some!
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frkhot97 2/06/08 4:47:06 PM
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Add Dofus and Vendetta Online to the list |
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frkhot97 2/07/08 8:24:04 AM
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Yeah, it's a long list. But I think only about 1/5 of the games are MMOs or even multiplayer. |
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Talyn 2/11/08 11:02:11 PM
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Joined: 8/22/04 |
I don't use Linux for gaming anymore, I just got tired of having to work at it or putting up with glitches and inconsistencies. However, WoW worked wonderfully with Cedega and I think WINE runs it perfectly now also. Guild Wars worked like a champ in Cedega, no idea how WINE handles it. Both of those (especially WoW for obvious reasons) had a lot of effort put into supporting them so I never had to do anything to get them to run other than setup a desktop icon. America's Army (FPS not MMO) used to have a native Linux client but I think development on that was scrapped a year or more ago? I'm hoping (perhaps hoping against hope) that Masthead, being a European company where Linux is possibly a larger market, will take CCP's lead and provide native Linux and Mac clients for Earthrise, like CCP has for EVE... |
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n25philly 2/13/08 9:57:11 AM
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Joined: 4/23/04 |
Linux is fun, but too much of a pain to use on a regular basis. It's good to see if getting some gaming love. Certainly a bigger list than I would have expected |
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Fennris 3/19/08 5:35:08 AM
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Hopefully as more games are written to support Macs they will be easier to port over to Linux (since they are both Unix flavors). However, I doubt that anyone will want to officially produce a Linux version of anything major just because it would be a pain in the neck to support all of the different Linuxes out there and there is very little commercial demand at the moment. When I was considering switching operating systems fulltime a few years ago, my biggest problem with Linux was weak driver support for the latest/greatest devices (there wasn't a free driver for any Audigy sound card for a long time, for example). But I use Linux to get work done as a coder all of the time. And, as it turns out, it's the only way I can VPN into my job because Cisco still hadn't written something that works with Vista-64 the last time I checked...
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Einherjar_LC 3/31/08 11:47:16 PM
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