The Epic Games Store launcher is to run natively on Linux. There is no date, and Linux is not yet included in the preview of the new client.
  • ieris19@lemmy.zip
    2 months

    This is something we should honestly ignore and show a big fat middle finger to anything Epic ever does with Linux until Tim Sweeney is gone.

    The company has been actively undermining Linux gaming for years, and they’re only switching gears because it is now convenient and profitable to do si

    • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org
      2 months

      If you care about Indie games, you should definitely support them to put some pressure on valve in regards to:

      • lowering their 30% cut for lower revenue (so something like first 100k free). Right now they lower it only for high grossing games
      • allowing to have lower prices on other platforms. That’s genuinely monopoly behavior and I do hope they lose their lawsuits in this regard.
      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        2 months

        GOG was worth supporting for that reason ( until their recent little Nazi incident…) but Epic is far worse for the games industry than anything steam has ever done. Holding games hostage exclusive to try and force people to use their shitty platform is much worse than steam saying the steam price has to match the lowest price off-steam…

        • ieris19@lemmy.zip
          7 hours

          Calling it a “Nazi incident” is just crazy.

          Sure, someone grabbed a handful of random rune-looking symbols and put them on an email. Other than the lightning I wouldn’t even recognize these as Nazi symbols, and even then, it’s a lack of QA not an endorsement of any ideology.

          People truly act like nuance and intention don’t exist

          • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
            32 minutes

            In this case the nuance and intention both are “they admit they knew these were nazi symbols but decided to send them out anyways, fully aware it may cause offense (which is why QA didn’t send them to german users (possibly also because this flirts with being actually illegal in germany))”. So… no, “Nazi incident” really isn’t a bad way to describe it. While you yourself may be ignorant of common nazi symbols (and I envy you that particular source of bliss), you are (perhaps fortunately) not representative of the whole population - and unfortunately given what they’ve said, GOG has made clear they were not laboring under a similar ignorance. This was Not Good before the apology, but that response really made this indefensible.

      • RQG@lemmy.world
        2 months

        Canada is pretty great, even more so when compared to the US.

        Linux is pretty great, even more so when compared to Windows.

        Comparison holds up.

        • Soup@lemmy.world
          2 months

          As a Canadian…I don’t want to be compared to the US anymore. It’s been our excuse to get worse and worse for decades and I’m tired of it.

          Also, I’m liking CachyOS. Yes it’s better than Windows(anything is), but I’m also making an effort to not say things shouldn’t be done just because I’m happier than I was.