MMORPG under Linux?

[rumen]

What MMORPG do you play under Linux? I run World of Warcraft and Eve Online on my distro and they play fine.

[Tor]

I've done WoW before. Does Eve Online have a Linux client or do you need to run it through an emulator? Isn't there a free MMORPG for Linux?

[rumen]

Eve Online has its native Linux clinet, but it has Cedega intergrated to run it properly. It's a MMORPG with a space theme, it even offers a 14 days long trial period. Have a look, it's worth it

[Jordan]

I have also done WoW but nothing else. A quick search on the net for Linux MMORPG returned a lot of results. I see Eve Online in the list and it looks like an impressive game!

[rumen]

Originally Posted by Jordan

I have also done WoW but nothing else. A quick search on the net for Linux MMORPG returned a lot of results. I see Eve Online in the list and it looks like an impressive game!

Yup, the game is shockingly good, and is amazingly beautiful Try the trial if you have the time, you will remain satisfied for sure.

[LissaValerian]

I've played WoW under linux but thats pretty much about it.

~Lissa Valerian

[Tor]

Did you use an emulator?

[LissaValerian]

yeah, I'm trying to remember the exact setup I had. I was playing while working at my corporate job and they didn't have the ports open, so I was tunneling it off of my linux box outside the corp network so that I could play.

It was slow as molasses but I at least was able to get online and play. The main thing that made it so slow was the ssh tunneling I think. It was a gawdawful setup. At my new job, the ports are wide open, so as soon as 5:00 hits, the WoW screen comes up. :-) <GRIN> I play for a few hours before heading home. But that's on a windows desktop.


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~ Lissa Valerian

[Tor]

That is a great guide! You can play just using Wine. In Linux what is your FPS under Wine with WoW?

How did you tunnel WoW through an SSH port? I understand tunneling but I thought you had to setup a proxy in your app (Like in FireFox you add a local 127.0.0.1 proxy). WoW doesn't support proxies does it?

Also, if you don't mind me asking, why do you play at work vs home?

[LissaValerian]

I play at work because I have more interesting things to do at home. ;-)

WoW itself does not support proxies. That was probably the most frustrating part. This was something I had set up over a year and a half ago when I was working at my corp job, and to be honest with you I barely remember how I had it set up. I wrestled with it quite a bit until I finally got it working. If I remember correctly, I used vnc to tunnel the linux desktop. It was a gawdawful mess. I had to get the help of a couple of coworkers who were also WoW junkies to get this set up. :-) I'm not 100% sure I remember how I did it. I just know that I did and that once it worked, it was fine (though very very very slow).

I honestly don't remember 100% how I did it. At my current job, the ports are 100% open and I play without porting or tunneling on my windows desktop. At home I do the same.

My partner is a surfer who doesn't really do a lot of computer stuff, so when I'm at home, we're usually going out to the beach and stuff. <GRIN> (I live in Florida) So I get my geek time in the few hours after work and then when I'm at home, I do the beach thing. No complaints there. :-)