TheStonedog

Yeah, see that now. For some reason I didn't see the extra pages of replies getting the whole deal. This is likely the same thing Eve did with Cedega to get a Linux client. They didn't do such a good job though.

Thing is CoH already runs great under standard WINE, a little work with the community is all that would be needed to get the normal client to run perfectly under GNU/Linux. I understand about the extra work needed for OSX though, they have no community to smooth out the rough spots so bringing in Cedega to do the deed is understandable.

This can only be a good thing. It shows me that NCSoft is serious about keeping CoH going long into the future.

Here is an idea though, work with the folks at the WINE project to make sure that WINE handles the details of running the client better then it currently does. This should require very little time and effort to check the effects of updates once the few current anomalies are dealt with, and almost no extra coding time vs the return. This would make use of the Free/Open Source Community to do what it does best, code. You get the community to do the heavy lifting of making WINE work with CoH.

WINE already runs CoH better then CoH runs natively on the same hardware. Besides a quirk during installation and 2 other curious bugs, it runs pretty much flawlessly already. I'm just saying, if there is enough demand seen for a port OSX, which has a lower installed base then GNU/Linux, there should be enough budget to at least work with the WINE project and get a first class solution for GNU/Linux players of CoH as well.