If only we had more programmers
MFer you just fired like a thousand of them
Imagine being the editor of a cross-platform game engine and pretending you don’t have enough developers to port the games you developed for other platforms…
What’s your message here Timmy huh?
“Our game engine is so shitty that even us can’t afford to develop our games on Linux with it”
What a fraud…
Every engine in this generation has the ability to do multibuilds. The networking and security will be the only thing other than that. This is Unreal Engines official Linux documentation so it’s all bullshit. https://docs.unrealengine.com/4.27/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/Linux/GettingStarted/
A good amount of Hollywood film production uses Unreal Engine these days and the same companies let Linux servers render the results.
They literally just need to enable it in the dev page of EAC and Proton handles the reat.
(All copy-pasted from what I’ve written in the linux_gaming subreddit)
This is the same guy who compared Linux to moving to Canada once, had moved away from PC gaming because of “rampant piracy” only to return back to it because he wanted that sweet, sweet pie of the market Valve had ripened, built the shittiest store imaginable, that was initially literally spyware and took 3 years to get a fucking shopping cart feature, did all these shitty exclusives to keep the said store afloat, instead of you know, trying to improve it? The same guy who allowed shitty creepto games into his store only when Steam had banned them (btw does anyone remember that Epic Shit Store was supposed to be a “highly curated store”)?
And this is the same company who specifically makes sure Fortnite won’t run on Linux because they literally use several anti cheat software, apart from the one they’re literally developing themselves, deliberately to NOT make Linux run it (such confidence on their software amirite :V)? The same company who has (hopefully had) a dumbass developer complaining about Steam Deck “not having Fortnite???” and that’s “fragmenting his library???”.
And there is also the matter of Rocket League, Artstation, Bandcamp, and so many other things.
Epic and Tim Sweeney are the most two-faced scumbags I’ve ever witnessed in my life, and it still fucking hurts me because I’ve loved the Unreal series so goddamn much, man.
In fact, I’m more angry at Heroic and Lutris and co. for allowing games to be installed from that store. Epic shouldn’t get this amount of work done for them for free.
Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.
All it takes is one click in the EAC SDK to support Valve’s Proton. (┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻Tim Sweeney is a fuckin retard.
Can we please not belittle the mentally disadvantaged by comparing them to Tim Sweeny?
deleted by creator
At this point, they’ve invested more in not supporting Linux. This is after Linux decided to support Fortnite instead.
Sorry what is EAC?
Easy Anti-Cheat, the anti-cheat that’s literally owned by Epic Games.
Thank you kind sir :)
It’s just Tim Slimy being an absolute jackass
Don’t take any words as truth, from this jerkoff. Tim will do literally anything to avoid giving people what they’re asking for
Fuck Tim Sweeney.
Nvidia in the other castle
you’re paying other developers off to convince them not to launch their own stores
lmao says the ceo of the company that pays developers off to launch exclusively on egs
Not having Fortnite sounds more like a feature than a fault.
What did he meant by The Linux problem?
He means Linux had sex with his wife and now he’s mad.
Which distro?
He means they have a problem with Linux users. What other reason would there be to buy up games and remove native Linux support the second its removed from the steam store? (Rocket League for example)
Eh… “gaslighting 101” – swears randomly (against the victim/target), throws in a (non-random) praise to “raise the fire even more”, refuses to elaborate.
I think he means the whole “Not enough users to justify porting applications, users don’t use it because applications don’t support it” thing.
The problem is that logic has been dead for years. Users are here. The Steam Deck is wildly popular. Tim Sweeney is just a dumbass.
Just out of curiosity but how many users have the deck? Aren’t they already ~10M?
Well if you’re counting, I’ve got one.
No, definitely not but getting there! Last year despite slow production ramp up, about one million were sold. Source: a SteamOS developer on a KDE conference in autumn.
This year a financial analyst company predicted an additional two million until the end of this year but that was before the OLED announcement. Valve then recently said “millions”. So I guess 3 million may be a somewhat conservative estimate now that the OLED model is out. 4 million if we’re generous. It’ll take a while until 10 million are reached, if they’ll be reached at all. My memory is a bit foggy but I think Valve people said that the Steam Deck was intended to launch earlier but the Covid semiconductor crisis delayed the announcement. My guess is that at least a Steam Deck Lite will be announced first but the overall performance will stay about the same, so that could drive sales a bit before the eventual successor comes out.
It’s not about Deck alone. Supporting Deck, means supporting all Linux machines and everyone else with controller.
Let’s just take a moment to recognize his struggle to find a few more programmers
Maybe if we pool together and buy just one more pack of gems (or whatever they call them) they can pull off what must surely be a truly Herculean technical feat
Instead of asking for Linux support maybe we should be asking companies for wine/proton support, since that works for Mac and Linux. Not ideal but probably more realistic and that would solve issues for all the non-windows desktops. I would also imagine it’s less work for the company to just ensure it works on wine, than it is to compile a seperate client for Linux. I don’t know about anti cheat stuff but personally I wouldn’t run a game that wanted that level of access to my system.
