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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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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Tim Sweeney has a personal grudge against Linux.

[–] pandacoder@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think it's Linux.

I think Tim Sweeney is just like all of the big publicly traded companies where they do not want the best thing for their customers and only want to control them.

Valve, and thus Gabe Newell, is actually making pro-consumer choices, which is success that Tim Sweeney wants.

I think the grudge is against Gabe Newell and Valve.

There is a chance that Tim Sweeney would actively shit on Linux anyway, since that would reduce control over consumers (and yes with all of the deceptive practices Epic does and how they fight lawsuits in court, they definitely are not trying to give control to the users).

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure Gabe has a lot of wonderful traits, but pro-consumer ain't one of them.

[–] pandacoder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There's a difference between calling Gabe Newell pro-consumer (not what I said), and saying he and his company make pro-consumer choices (moreso recently than in the past).

I can't really come up with anything Epic has done that is actually pro-consumer, and no "trying to create a competitor to Steam" isn't pro-consumer when the way they did it was very anti-consumer (just look at all the Kickstarters they swept up and made exclusives even after they had publicly promised Steam keys — it's not like Epic couldn't have added clauses to exempt Kickstarter backers from the exclusivity restrictions) or very intentionally locking people to one platform by force. Their support of anything non-Windows for anything besides Unreal is terrible.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He hates penguins?

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"club all those fucking penguins to death" - Tim Sweeney probably

[–] odium@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

Tim Sweeney might be the reason club penguins shut down

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe the nerdy Linux guy stole his gf in high school?