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Game preservation takes another hit.

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThat's NEVER gonna happen - Tim Sweeny is openly anti-Linux, and he's quite vocal about it, too. If you're really keen, you can play it on your Stream Deck via Remote Play... It takes a bit of mucking around to get the settings just right, so gameplay is smooth; but it works.

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Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

If you have not grinded, and you are in the queue against guy who did - who will win?

Even if you win in team vs team, you - will be cannon fodder and he will be cannon fodder killer. Much fun!

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Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

It's not a pay to win game, it's a pay to skip the grind game.

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Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

Eh, Starsiege Tribes still has users (the community even has their own master servers), and that game is only like a decade younger than I am. There's also things like Old School Rune Scape (OSRS), and something similar for World of Warhammer (Classic World of Warhammer or something like that?), so while communities shrink, it's rare for them to simply die off entirely (remember Stop Killing Games).

Quoting: GustyGhostMissed opportunity for Fellowship of the GNOME

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Quoting: dimkoWhen comes to actual coding - game was and still is in poor optimization state.

The game has also had a huge RAM and VRAM leak in the Vulkan Linux build for a long time now, it's not present in the OpenGL version but the downside of that is that performance isn't as good.
Apparently the leaks aren't present in the Vulkan Windows builds but unfortunately running the game with Proton gets you kicked from servers with the anti-cheat enabled which is required for crossplay.

Quoting: KoopaThis specs dont make sense... technically the 7900XT is faster than the 9070XT!

Will you be picking it up?

Quoting: dimkoPay to win game got expansion, hooray!

Quoting: ScottCarammellshame, I actually really enjoyed Fortnite in my pre-Linux days and was hoping it'd finally come here someday. looking less likely by the day.

Quoting: dubigrasu

And we'll be kicking off the next generation of Epic with huge launch plans towards the end of the year.

So, Linux support?

Quoting: Aaron SparksMaybe it’s time to be open to allowing Linux users to play your games Tim Sweeney? Usually you would want to capitalize on an untapped market. I’m sure if shareholders actually got to vote on this they could have save some of those 1000 people’s jobs. What a douche.

Quoting: ExpalphalogIt's all little kids now. Not sure exactly when the shift happened, but Fortnite's audience has skewed to elementary aged kids.

Quoting: poke86Cool, though if I'm not mistaken they're only referring to the device and not the OS... So they might want you to install Windows on your Deck 😅

Quoting: chr

Spoiler, click me

I was gonna simply report it with a thoughtful comment, but then decided that it might do more good to share my personal opinion publicly (and potentially receive other opinions of what we are or want to be):

I get it that piracy is normal or even necessary for certain demographics (inequality is quite bad even inside countries or districts 😔!). But I don't think we should risk skirting quite that far this line of permitted speech about content punishable by those who hold power in our globalized society. I don't believe these power structures or their very selective enforcement are fair. (Corporations scraping for AI training data being another egregious example of this, also undermining even more semblance of a rules-based society; On the other hand, I'm glad copyrights are far less strictly enforced in poorer countries (in my experience)).

I wouldn't mind the comment quite as much if the commenter were risking mentioning punishable activities in order to provide more substantive value to the community AND they were subtle about it. There is a time and place to fight the power, but I feel this comment would be as valuable without allusions to piracy.

Any thoughts?