The most significant thing about this development is that Timmy (CEO) was extremely vocal about being basically anti-Linux. So this is, in a way, the market (and also Valve largely) forcing his hand, which is the way things should work in an educated society. It's the way capitalists like the pretend the world works.
maybe you can find something different but i never saw his stance as "anti" linux but more 'linux isnt worth the time". being honest, i think its more that Microsoft has been very good to epic, however Microsoft has gone through too many identity crises.
either way, i do think there is a good future gaming on linux and linux in general.
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"Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn't like US political trends. Nope, we've got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today."
GOG also said they are working on Linux support for over a decade ago. Some developer saying something unofficial in a Discord server isn't enough for me to believe this will happen soon. Also, if they have a native Linux application, that plays the Windows games through Proton (or any of its variants), then will they support their own games on Linux too? Will Fortnite be playable on Linux?
No big deal if they don't manage to make EAC work on Linux for all usage cases. Fortnite itself still refuses to support Linux, and if that's the case, why would Epic bother to port its Game Store there?
I finally got a graphics card from this decade, and I kept trying to play it the other day but it kept giving me anticheat errors before I even got into the game.
Never played it before. Ended up playing slipgate and an athletic young lady let me play cyberpunk a bit.
Nope - anything made by Epic, EA, Ubisoft, Riot or Rockstar is blocked from working on Linux, and the list is actually growing with For Honor being blocked soon
I've personally ditched most gaming as a result, same as I mostly stopped following media after DRM became a thing a decade or so ago. I wish more people did the same, because interacting with people while being intentionally unaware of popular culture is difficult
What do you think, I was already peeved with DVD DRM, but at least it could be bypassed. With streaming services, where there file resides in a server instead of in a physical medium at home, it's much harder to fix that
Ubisoft has a lot of single-player games that work fine, GTA V single-player works, I'm not sure this is fully true unless you prepend it with "multiplayer"
Agreed, but 1. character limit, 2. I'm not willing to economically support companies that do that and worse (gambling coercion, worker abuse, sexual harassment, and suspicious financial sources)
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Fun Fact, Unreal Engine has supported Linux for a long time, which would be pretty much the only reason I would ever install Epic Gamea Store. The fuckers work for the CCP.
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I finally got a graphics card from this decade, and I kept trying to play it the other day but it kept giving me anticheat errors before I even got into the game.
Never played it before. Ended up playing slipgate and an athletic young lady let me play cyberpunk a bit.
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I don't think there's anything that a game could do that would convince me to install windows for it.
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