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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] ihopethisisnotawful@lemmy.ml 74 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Apparently they have enough developers to add in crappy emotes and crossovers but not enough to support one of the most popular operating systems.. makes sense

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Adding emotes is a different skill set than getting it to run on Linux, but there's plenty of UE5 games on steam deck already so surely it can't be that hard...

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

adifferent skill set

you're right, given that all it'd take for it to work on Linux would be ticking a box in EAC console, the anticheat software that they develop themselves.

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Saying “one of the most popular operating systems” when there’s only 3-4 serious, mainstream contenders doesn’t mean much.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And Linux desktop is less than 2%

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 2 years ago

For gaming I'm fairly sure that overtakes macOS

[–] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly, it’s the lowest of the major ones… not saying it’s bad or anything, just not exactly attractive to game devs

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think 10% is where it's definitely attractive, though macOS got away with far less, probably because of how much their customers tend to spend on hardware and software.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

Those are artists not developers

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lmao at one of the most popular.

I don't agree that Epic doesn't have enough resources, but realistically Linux makes up such a tiny proportion of systems I don't blame any other developer for not supporting it. Would be a waste of resources.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 years ago

Well Linux is certainly one of the top 3 most popular pc operating systems.