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• Giooschi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  However, how are they sabotaging it working on Linux.

  For example they discontinued support for Rocket League on Linux (and Mac) after buying Psyonix.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s got a platinum rating on ProtonDB. It looks like the native versions are being supported anymore, but they still work. I don’t blame them. The game has gotten a lot smaller over the years and I’m certain there’s very few Linux players on it. Regardless, the Windows application seems to work perfectly fine for Linux users. Yeah, native is ideal but it costs extra money to maintain two (or three) versions.

    Anyway, you can’t say they’re sabotaging Linux support when they also purchased EAC and had them add Linux support. They may not be perfect with Linux, but they aren’t sabotaging it.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Silly you, you should know that it is not allowed to say anything that could be construed as remotely positive about Epic (or anything negative about Valve/Steam, for that matter) on this site.

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    • Baahb@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, I really don’t get Epic hate. Sure, they’re using shitty practices to attempt to compete with the megolith Valve is, and it sucks.

  Meanwhile GOG attempts to compete by offering features that other platforms don’t offer, like DRM-free installers and a multi-platform game launcher.

  If Epic got to #1 place, what guarantees there are that they would stop using exclusivity deals to hinder their own competitors? It might just be that we end up with a more anti-competititve market leader, and then what would be the benefit of having overtaken Steam?

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like GoG. They don’t hold any control over the market though. I wish they did, but they aren’t competing.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can agree that GoG doesn’t have a large share of the market, but I’m still unconvinced of the benefit of this call for competition for competition’s sake when it’s introducing anti-competitive practices. Usually we want competition to push back against anti-competitive practices.

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Epic takes less revenue than Steam.

        They both have anti-competitive practices. They’re just different practices. Epic tends to favor helping developers and Valve tends to favor appealing to users. Valve doesn’t need to force exclusivity because games have to take a loss to not use them, because they’re already the market leader. There’s no knowing what Valve would be doing if they were the underdog, but people need to stop assuming Valve is good. No company is ever good.

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• Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tim Sweeney is pretty openly against any Linux support for some reason so I think that soured Linux gamers against them.
  I have been gaming on Linux for 15 years and it is so much better these days, but we are still not a 1st party target. I get why, but it sucks to be ignored and told to just deal with it forever. I spend as much or more on hardware and software than windows gamers (except for a Windows license I suppose) and I guess I have to vote with my wallet.

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Epic (the game engine and middleware developer) and Epic Store (the one that sells games) seems to have different priorities. Customers of Epic game engines and middlewares want linux supports, so they provides it. Meanwhile, Epic Store don’t want the burden of maintaining linux ports for their games.

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