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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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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 11 months ago

What are you talking about? I'm merely showing that he has supported Linux in the past, and at least some of his companies products support it today (Unreal and EAC).

The reason EGS and Fortnite don't support Linux isn't because he hates Linux, but because he doesn't see profit in it. And I don't blame him, Linux probably isn't profitable in the short or medium term for EGS or Fortnite.

Steam didn't start supporting Linux because they saw short or medium term profit, it was a long term investment to keep an option open in case Windows was able to force stores to share profit on their platform. Now that Windows has kind of backed off that, they're doubling down because the Steam Deck provides another option to increasing sales and appealing to more people.

I don't hate Tim Sweeney for not supporting Linux, but I am a bit disappointed though. But if Linux gains enough marketshare (not sure how much we'd need, but maybe 5%?), he'll likely change his mind. He's interested in profit, and Linux just isn't an attractive enough platform for that right now for EGS. Maybe that'll change in the future.

I have never and probably will never give EGS any of my money, but that didn't mean I hate Sweeney or his products, it just means they provide no value to me, so I'm uninterested, much like he is with Linux.