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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)

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most games that work on Steam Deck aren't technically Linux-compatible and therefore have no "Linux support" needed. Proton has come very very far, and most games are running the Windows exe through Steam using Proton.

In fact, I've played several games that do have native Linux support, and they still play better using the Windows version through Proton. On my Steam Deck, and on my shitty non-gaming laptop.

So no, they don't have to support anything new.

[-] chaorace 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Exactly. Making the game WINE-compatible is not the same thing as committing to support. In reality, the only thing stopping WINE from working is Epic Anti-Cheat and the absurd thing about this is that Epic already gave EAC a WINE-compatibility mode -- they're just actively choosing not to turn it on.

What Tim's really saying is this:

I don't want our flagship game to be used as a way to highlight Steam's better Linux support, so the game won't come to Linux until EGS on Linux is at parity. Unfortunately, it doesn't make sense for us to bother doing that right now because the Linux usershare is too small to matter.

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