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Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.co 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.world 0 points 2 days 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.