Over 15k verifiable playable games work on Linux
It’s about the drm and anticheat, nothing more.
Not even, anti cheat can be configured to work on Linux and even through Proton, this is just Tim being himself.
I play csgo 2 with no issues
because Valve makes the steam deck, and CS2 doesn’t use kernel-level anticheat
Okay, now give me another free game Epic. I’ve got over 100 probably on you wacko store and have not paid for a single one.
I’ve got like 400.
Think I only paid for Outer Wilds plus the DLC, and Untitled Goose Game out of all those, because everybody should play Outer Wilds.
You say that like you’re getting one over on them. But they’ve successfully got you to download their shitty software. You think they aren’t aware of what they’re doing?
This is where the Heroic Games Launcher comes in, it only downloads the game itself, no Epic Games Launcher to be seen
They know what they’re trying to do, which is to bait people into spending money on their platform so they can have revenue numbers to show developers to get them to release on their platform to get people to want to spend money with them without bait.
Taking the bait but not getting caught in the trap isn’t quite pulling one over on them, but it’s also not what they were hoping for, so it’s not not taking advantage.
Step 1: Redeem games through my web browser.
That’s it, there is no step 2.
So you don’t actually play the games? You just redeem them?
Not the other guy but I download them through heroic, install a crack, repack, store on my NAS. That is, if the game is one I’d like to keep for the future.
So yeah some of us are absolutely taking those free games AS free games without downloading their software. A couple of mine have been “loaned” to friends and family, even.
Same here, download everything through Heroic
Correct. Fuck Epic. They’re awful.
Full transparency though, I’ve played precisely one game on epic games store, Alan Wake 2 because I like Remedy as a developer and want to support them. Alan Wake 2 will never come out on any other platform and I’m not buying a console to play one game.
Okay but redeeming the games doesn’t actually do anything. Epic doesn’t care. You’re not messing with them by just having an account if you don’t use it
Epic is subsidizing the sale of the games. It costs them money and muddies their metrics.
Oh no, not the metrics!
I’m sure they’re fully aware that some percentage of people will redeem the games with no intent of actually playing them.
The whole point is to generate word of mouth for their store. You’re out here doing their job for them, talking about how many free games you’ve gotten from them.
Thank you, Tim Epic
God, Lemmy is filled with sweaty Linux evangelists.
Oh no, that’s terrible. I hope you managed to survive your Lemmy comment section unscathed :((
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You know most of fediverse servers are run by Linux user so stop whining and go back to Twitter
Never been to Twitter. Do people like you I wonder? Or are you just a smug douche when people threaten your little safe space, circle jerk?
Oh sorry about that thought you’re a Twitter user since your comments and the way you replies looks like one
That makes no sense.
This is old news but I do often think about the flaw in Tim Sweeney’s strategy to try and bully apple and Microsoft into making their platforms work his way.
Honestly Epic should have got in the Linux bandwagon years ago so they could provide their own hardware.
This is a 2 and a half (almost) year old article. I figured Tim’s thoughts on this were common knowledge at this point?
A terrifically hard audience to serve given the variety of incompatible configurations.
If your game doesn’t work with my fully functional operating system (while others do), isn’t it literally your game that’s “incompatible?”
Plus it isn’t like there aren’t tons of compatibility issues with all the versions of hardware on PC.
My kids, unfortunately, love the game, so I’ve kept up with performance a little bit. It seems they’re trying their best to make it run like trash. They can’t even support the few operating systems it does run on. I haven’t noticed any mind blowing graphics updates, but fps is around a third of what it used go be. Such a garbage company.
The cartoonish artstyle might hide it a bit, but Fortnite is basically Epic’s showcase of all the newest Unreal Engine tech. The move to UE5 a couple years ago brought with it all those new features and a huge leap in graphics. Fortnite has been around for a long time now, so the minimum performance targets are probably changing as tech and average system hardware improve. I don’t actually play it, but it’s pretty much a different game now compared to when BR mode was first released.
That explains the consistent decline in performance. Thanks for the info.
Plus He’s talking about the steam deck here. That’s 1 configuration. And Rocket League is already on steam for those who bought it before epic did, runs fine in proton. The dude is full of shit and making up excuses, it’s obvious this is a business agreement and nothing to do with practicality and in lying about it he’s hurting his reputation.
Maybe an incomplete product they don’t want to dive back in
Oh noes! The customers won’t happily swallow whatever bullshit we shove down their throats! Oh the humanity!
In no way shocked about that one. Sweeney aint gonna help the competition.
This from the man who thinks he’s “competing” with Valve?
Valve is figuring out how to run games they didn’t even develop on Linux, while Epic complains it’s too hard to do for even their own games…
That’s rich.
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Sometimes you need a few developers getting paid full time to truly get a project like DXVK off the ground. Some of the biggest open source projects wouldn’t even exist without the time and money from companies that actively support it.
No it isn’t, I didn’t claim it was, and Valve is doing a good bit more than mere pre-configuration.
Valve is contributing efforts to improve Wine, DXVK, VK3D, shader-cache management, and making their use simple and easy.
If I figure out how to use Bottles, then in a literary sense it is completely correct to say: I figured out how to run windows software on Linux.
The sentence doesn’t suddenly become false if I didn’t write every line of code, from kernel to compatibility layer, that my PC is executing to do it.
DXVK is sooo good now I install it for half my games on my Windows machine just for the performance gains
I’ve been doing the same thing, if the performance of a game feels like it could be better I slap that shit in there and it often drops GPU usage by at least half, it’s frankly ridiculous.
Valve invested time and money in Wine and DXVK. Claiming Valve is not trying to figure out how to run games on Linux because they’re contributing to a project instead of creating a new one from the ground up, then only Linus contributes to the kernel?
Tim Sweeney doesn’t work hard.
Good old Tim never misses an opportunity to tell Linux users about his nonsense dated opinions
Adding that extra file that takes care of everything related for anti cheat must be quite difficult for such a small team. /s
Oh yeah, there’s so many Steam Deck configurations! /s
There’s one, which is higher than the average number of games EGS users paid for.
I got it and I’m just absolutely shocked at how happy I am with it! It’s just slightly less powerful than my old gaming rig and dramatically more versatile! I’d expect a trade-off like it feeling hacky or having a frustrating interface but not at all!
Tim Sweeney is a terrifically hard person to get to fuck off.
