Quoting: Whitewolfe80doesnt the epic store work perfectly under lutris it did last time i checked in with it now yes ill never buy anything epic related but if you got bl3 with a graphics card cant see the harm

Right. And since windows bloatware is included in the package why not installing windows too? I've heard that the last iteration is very stable and performing plus it's supported by virtually every PC game out there.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoLinux and OSX depots activity detected.

Yes. It should be for a Borderlands2 DLC that supposedly bridges the game to Borderlands 3 and rumors say it will be released soon. Ofc for us penguineers it will only bridge the game to disappointment.

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Quoting: scaineI don't see any gum jumping. A major developer cast aspersions on Linux support for a crucial piece of middleware affecting many games. I want that news reported.

If Liam sat on news like this, waiting for official communications, half the controversial stories would break elsewhere, without any community damage control, such as dredgepits like Reddit.

Please keep doing what you're doing, Liam. It's much appreciated.

Some people will only ever want me to cover something when it's 100% confirmed and not have any kind of speculation whatsoever, that's just not how the internet works though. As I tried to explain to others before, part of my reasoning in doing a lot of things early is so I can get ahead of all the utter clickbait out there. Some people don't accept that and as usual a couple people across Reddit are saying all sorts of horrible things - but fuck them.

The problem is, what if they don't reply in a few days, a week, 2 weeks? Everyone else covers it, we're left waiting. Better to get ahead of a problem, while still contacting people to ensure you get confirmation while making sure people know things are not confirmed.

Don't worry about them Liam. Speculation is a right of men in the free world. Plus using you mind to connect the dots, formulate hypothesis, look for the hidden truth are all legit and valuable skills in journalists. What is cancer is deny, hide or distort the factual truth, but that's not what happened here.

All in all speculation even when it turns out wrong it prompts the involved actors to release official statements to the press to avoid misunderstandings and so is functional to get actual clarity. Which is what journalism is about.

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There might be nothing to see today, but through delays, ops and misunderstandings softwares can slowly die.

If there is one thing I appreciate of Epic is the transparency they have in saying exactly what they are going to do in the immediate. But when it comes to explain what the mid and long term effects of their actions are, they tend to manipulative... or "creative" at the very least.

I would keep EAC under observation in the coming months.

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Err. You're discussing a years old tweet. You know Sweeney present day stance on windows right?

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Quoting: NeverthelessA nice way to put it! The only downside is: voting with wallets means only "yes" votes will be counted. This way one of the most frequent arguments in favor of the Epic Shop (including exclusive deals) is: "I don't care!".

I don't think so. CEOs do have an idea of the market size. Epic can't have precise numbers of how many people are boycotting them but they do have an idea of how much of the market they have penetrated with their exclusives. Remember when they were caught browsing in steam files and uploading the content? They don't sell your friend list to Chinese government but they do get an idea of the size and kind of people with one client or another or both of them and their network.

When people that refuse to install their client adds up they'll notice. And it's good they do. The sooner they realize we won't yield the sooner they'll stop being a cancer and adopt a model that is functional to the PC gaming industry. Valve is private company. I dunno what kind of cash reserves they have but assuming they have decent reserves they can fight an attrition war better than Epic. Only that for as long as this nonsense goes on there will be repercussions on the financing of their side projects like VR, linux, proton and so on. Especially since they are already dealing with the Artifact fiasco. And that is bad for all PC gaming since Epic is not compensating with its own PC focused initiatives and, as far as they let us know, they have no intention to ever compensate. For them PC is just one platform like another, they just started their world conquest quest from here because being open makes it more vulnerable to market manipulation. Their short and long term strategy is purely to pass bigger revenues to publishers by sacrificing gamers and with no strings to ensure that part of these revenues publishers get go to actual developers (actually recent news looks like Epic has an issue with its own developers). But PC gaming has a die hard number of informed trend setters and influencers. And there is and there will always be resistance.

Most gamers don't see it and stop at Sweeney proclaims of being the savior of the industry, but Epic is actually charging part of the costs of their attrition war on to them (when they do not absorb transaction costs and offer nearly 0 features that require some kind of cloud maintenance cost). Given how much money Epic has it's unlikely that Valve won't be forced to cut something itself in the medium long run. Which means that in the next years PC will lose competitivity to consoles and any other new player (Stadia and such). And I don't want it.

This is a commercial war for PC gaming. I simply want to do my little consumer part to make this madness stop as soon as possible. And I know at Epic they'll notice a little more now that Epic store can not be installed on linux.

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Thank you lutris guys to give me the possibility to not install Epic Game Store client.

Mr Sweeney took away my ability to vote with my wallet by taking away the games he bought from the penguin, but now you gave it me back. And I choose to not support his anti consumer and anti pc gaming initiative.

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Quoting: HopfenmeisterPetition: While the "PC-Version" of Borderlands 3 is an EPIC-exclusive, release only the Linux-Version on Steam.

That goes against the whole exclusivity strategy. The idea is to destroy the alternatives and take you prisoner. If you allow for an escape route instead of taking prisoners you're just making people flee that way.

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Quoting: FireBurn

Quoting: Mal

Quoting: FireBurnI really hope they release a remastered Borderlands 1

? This one is already released. And free even, if you got Borderlands classic on steam at least.

There's only Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel native on Linux atm

Oh. Right. My bad. This proton thing makes me confuse on what is native and what is not when it comes to old titles.

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Quoting: BielFPsNice news. Unfortunately since Borderlands 3 will be Epic Store exclusive, I have almost no hope about having a linux version (with is bad since I'm a big fan of the Borderlands series)

One CEO makes hole in the wall, another one appears to build another wall behind the wall. The road to freedom is long tortuous.

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