Quoting: RubyRose136They were one of the biggest Linux gaming supporters in the past, way before Steam was released for Linux (and possibly even Windows too)... In particular, Unreal Tournament had Linux support. But today it's different. No Epic Store on Linux, etc.

Valve angered them and Linux support is one of the few ways they can harm them without significantly harming themselves.

During a big anti-trust fight with Apple about their 30% tax they demanded on Twitter that Valve lowered their fees for everybody to give Epic an advantage in the legal fight.
In the end Valve only lowered the prices for big publishers, but not small.
This angered them.

Quoting: RubyRose136They were one of the biggest Linux gaming supporters in the past, way before Steam was released for Linux (and possibly even Windows too)... In particular, Unreal Tournament had Linux support. But today it's different. No Epic Store on Linux, etc.

Epic Games is a lot different than in the times of UT, it's a lot more corporate. You think of the company in terms of the developers but when I think of Epic I think of Tencent who owns 35% of the company, Sony who owns 5% and a Danish hedgefund who owns 3%. It's easy to say that Tim Sweeney can just veto them if they oppose Linux but to cross them could spell a lot of problems for Epic. Lets not forget that Gabe started to support Linux only when Microsoft started to try to get a possible stranglehold on how programs can work on Windows with soft threats. Linux was nothing more than a bet being hedged by Gabe.

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: RubyRose136They were one of the biggest Linux gaming supporters in the past, way before Steam was released for Linux (and possibly even Windows too)... In particular, Unreal Tournament had Linux support. But today it's different. No Epic Store on Linux, etc.

Valve angered them and Linux support is one of the few ways they can harm them without significantly harming themselves.

During a big anti-trust fight with Apple about their 30% tax they demanded on Twitter that Valve lowered their fees for everybody to give Epic an advantage in the legal fight.
In the end Valve only lowered the prices for big publishers, but not small.
This angered them.

They have also said that if Valve reduced their commission on Steam games from 30% to 12%, they would stop doing exclusivity deals and put their games on Steam. Yet the Epic Games Store still has far less users than Steam and is still not profitable. They have lost most of their revenue on exclusivity.

Quoting: RubyRose136

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: RubyRose136They were one of the biggest Linux gaming supporters in the past, way before Steam was released for Linux (and possibly even Windows too)... In particular, Unreal Tournament had Linux support. But today it's different. No Epic Store on Linux, etc.

Valve angered them and Linux support is one of the few ways they can harm them without significantly harming themselves.

During a big anti-trust fight with Apple about their 30% tax they demanded on Twitter that Valve lowered their fees for everybody to give Epic an advantage in the legal fight.
In the end Valve only lowered the prices for big publishers, but not small.
This angered them.

They have also said that if Valve reduced their commission on Steam games from 30% to 12%, they would stop doing exclusivity deals and put their games on Steam. Yet the Epic Games Store still has far less users than Steam and is still not profitable. They have lost most of their revenue on exclusivity.

And their Games are back on Steam.
They play a losing game just like Valve.

Both are trying to get rid of the dependency that threatens their business most.
Valve wants to get rid of Microsoft, for like 90% of their users is on that platform and it has done multiple attempts to take down their business utilizing said platform.
Epic wants to get rid of the Stores and especially Steam, because they demand a 30% cut, but without them they can't sell games.

For both they have to fight an opponent with a bigger user base and a more feature rich platform and other bigger players have tried and failed to overthrow.
Valve mercilessly exploits the stability it gets from being privately owned.
Epic can't use that stability.
Epic uses the money it gets from investors and anti-trust law, because that're the tools it has access to.

Neither of them has won real terrain yet.
Both are currently running on their own bandwagon, but nobody of importance has yet jumped on it.