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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)

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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -4 points 11 months ago

Agreed.

However, Fortnite makes so much money that it wouldn't be a hardship at all for them to do it. It may not be as profitable as other things they could do, but I think it would be a good gesture.

But Epic really doesn't benefit if the Deck succeeds, especially since they don't have a store there. It doesn't really hurt them that much though, but they have no reason to facilitate Deck adoption.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Except if they did enable Fortnite on Deck... As the game is not on steam, people who want to play it would be encouraged to install the epic store on their Decks (which IS possible, and already something people do to play other games from the Epic store on Deck), which would give Epic an in on SteamDeck.

Enabling EACs proton support for Fortnite would be a means to get their foot in the door with Deck players, but you're saying they wont do it because they don't have a foot in with Deck players?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I'm saying they won't do it because it requires work and they don't think the market is big enough. As you noted, the process for getting EGS on Linux (Deck or otherwise) isn't straightforward, so few people would do it, which makes the market even smaller.

And it's not just enabling an option once, they would also need to do some level of QA testing to make sure it's playable and not easily exploitable by cheaters on Linux. That all costs time and money.

So I completely understand why they wouldn't bother, the profit just isn't there. I still think they should, I just understand why they don't.

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