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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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[–] 33 points 2 years ago (9 children)

You don't have to support all distros anymore. Just take whatever windows build and test it with Proton.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Sure, but things work differently under the hood on Linux vs Windows, so they still need to validate every build. That means QA resources every release (and they release often), as well as development efforts to patch any Linux-specific exploits.

    If supporting Linux doesn't bring in more money than other dev efforts, it's not worth it.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    Proton with what? Stable or experimental? DXVK or Wine3D? X11 or Wayland? Nvidia closed source or open source?

    That's just what I came up with. There are probably a few more of these questions. Even Proton alone is not an easy target.

    Especially if you want some low-level anticheat. And you know, if they have one platform that is easier to cheat, cheaters will all use that platform.

    I don't know about you, but playing with tons of cheaters doesn't seem like a lot of fun to me.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You are making it sound way more difficult than it actually is. If some lone indie developer can manage it, a huge corporation with billions of dollars could do it without a thought.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Pick any Proton release you like. Support X11, Wayland will then probably work anyway unless people have nvidia gpus. Support DXVK and force people to use it.

    If you support one way to run Proton you're already most of the way there. Besides that majority of games just work fine without any work whatsoever.

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  • [+] -17 points 2 years ago*

    Seems like you didn't read my first comment that you replied to before.

    But still, your view is totally fine for a little indie studio, but that doesn't work for a game with >200 mio players.

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