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Outer Wilds becomes another Epic Store exclusive for a limited time
12 May 2019 at 7:15 pm UTC Likes: 3

Maybe you can try to get any statement from them, they don't care answering the questions from us backers, neither in comments nor via email...
I'm really pissed about this, if they don't clear this up i'll be getting a refund and pirate it instead - and i'll probably not back any more games after yet another letdown...

BattlEye now say they're working with Valve to support Steam Play
11 May 2019 at 5:53 pm UTC Likes: 4

I hope your fears are pointless - after all, battleye and EAC are already have a linux-version and i never heard of it requiring a specific kind of driver or kernel - so i doubt the proton-supported version will require it. ^^

Easy Anti-Cheat is actually still supported for Linux, a statement from Epic Games
7 May 2019 at 7:51 pm UTC

Quoting: x_wingIt will work with old well known cheats but will probably fail to detect new ones during the pause. Which means that they create a big backdoor for any MMO that have multiplatform support and a big problem for the devs and community if the cheaters start abusing of any new security breach. In the end this gives the devs of Facepunch yet another excuse to end with Linux support builds.

Pausing the development of an AC won't be innocuous to our platform.

i'm 100% with you and i'll be the last one defending any anticonsumer practice by Epic. But while bad for everyone, it is still possible to pause one platform. I really hope it's just a small break of a few weeks as someone suggested though...

Easy Anti-Cheat is actually still supported for Linux, a statement from Epic Games
7 May 2019 at 5:34 pm UTC

Quoting: Kimyrielle"Pausing" to work on such a piece of software is a funny concept overall. How do you "pause" supporting Anti Cheat software? This isn't a MMO where you can stop releasing new features for half a year and nothing bad will happen other than users getting bored. Anti-Cheat software is really a binary thing: It either works as intended, or does not. There is no in-between. Clients using this software HAVE to rely on it working correctly at any time. You can't hand them an anti cheat tool that stops the game from working on the platform its supposed to run on, nor can you tell them that it will catch only 50% of the known cheats because development is "paused".

It makes...no sense to me.

well, no.
No Anticheat will ever be 100% bulletproof. And pausing may mean just no new features/updated cheat-definitions and no fixing of bugs - but it will still work as it does at the time.
I don't know how you can live in the illusion that ANY anticheat can prevent ALL cheats 100% ^^

Himno, a free relaxing platformer with no enemies, no death and no real goal is now on Linux
7 May 2019 at 3:11 pm UTC Likes: 3

Just downloaded and the cases sensitivity-hickup is already fixed :)

Easy Anti-Cheat is actually still supported for Linux, a statement from Epic Games
7 May 2019 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 5

Lets hope that those words are worth a penny and not written by bullshit-sweeny ^^

And i don't think you should feel bad for "jumping the gun" - if nothing else, the outcry should show EAC and others that dropping Linux-Support will not go unnoticed...

Bearded Giant Games have announced the 3D dogfighting game Space Mercs
6 May 2019 at 2:27 pm UTC

Nice! His other games are not really down my alley, but this one i'll pick up for sure :D

After suggesting a developer drop Linux support, Vivox have released a statement
1 May 2019 at 6:25 pm UTC Likes: 2

Well, i know which company would be out of the picture if i ever have anything to say in any software development ^^

The official statement is obviously just a PR-Stunt to minimize the shitstorm...

The question others asked - what this offers over mumble - is a good one though

You can now easily run the Epic Store on Linux with Lutris, Epic suggests applying for a grant
18 April 2019 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 11

Cudos to the Lutirs-Team and GL in grabbing all the money they can from Epic.
But i deeply hope, that no one will consider supporting this company/store, that is trying to establish forced exclusives in the PC market and make everything worse for the customers...

The EU is going after Valve and others for "geo-blocking", a statement from Valve
5 April 2019 at 4:52 pm UTC Likes: 11

Would be nice if this lead to disabling the annoying geoblock for us germans (not regarding price but censorship)