Some interesting industry news for you here. Epic Games have announced a change to the revenue model of the Epic Games Store, as they try to pull in more developers and more gamers to actually purchase things.
  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    There is absolutely no reason for Epic to support Linux in anyway

    Except for the fact that their entire technology stack already supports it and making Linux versions of their games is a compilation step away. Their Tencent buddies at One-Notebook would surely make a OneXPlayer with EpicOS. “Comes with Fortnite and get free games each week”.

    They’ll never grow to the size of Steam, and that’s okay.

    EGS has a massive installed base because of Fortnite.

    • Derin@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It’s not about how easy it is to compile, my first point in my original comment was that they actively maintain an engine for Linux.

      The install base is too low right now. Hopefully as our numbers grow we’ll have enough market impact to warrant pushing other store fronts.

      Fortnite is great for Epic, but their debacle with Apple kind of proved that one popular game isn’t enough to push the public off one store front onto another.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        It’s not about how easy it is to compile

        But it is. It is what defines the cost of supporting a platform.

        The install base is too low right now.

        The installed base of Switch2 is 0% right now.