Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: syylk...

I’m not entirely sure what exactly you’re getting at here? EOS has full Linux support. It’s entirely separate to the Epic Store, which yes does not support Linux.

Sweeney only cares about multi-store crossplay. He hates to see that SteamID is the de-facto identity in multiplayer games. It's clear he wants a share of that cake, and dreams of EOS to be the auth/id of choice for multiplayer games.

He doesn't care that the multiplayer games he sells can work seamlessly across the Windows/Linux boundary. See Fortnite for the prime example.

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My thoughts?

Liam, please be careful about what EG means as multi-platform crossplay and what you think it should mean.

Because I see that for Sweeney & Co. the term "platform" defines the content delivery environment (EGS, Steam, GOG, Windows Store, individual launchers, etc.) used to purchase/get titles from and identify the owner in multiplayers, and how the middleware tied with that specific environment plays nice with other authentication/identification methods or launchers. Basically, who "owns" the login credentials.

While for you the term "platform" means Windows, MacOS, Linux-based OS'es, consoles, etc. so if I'm on Ubuntu while my buddy uses Win11 we can still play together (your example of Borderlands 2 having different, incompatible versions for Lin and Win).

The way "crossplay" is interpreted and intended varies a lot between the two meanings. In particular, Epic Games never ever cared adding Linux in the crossplay pool as much as cares about grafting Steam market share by fair or foul means.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlI was playing Warcraft III in 2002 with Wine and World of Warcraft in 2004. I think it has come a long way, though, it was already a great project even in the early 2000s.

Yup, I was thinking of mid-90s, actually, when I was using it to run some WfW3.11 simple programs and more often than not, it wouldn't find some obscure DLL library.

Also, Blizzard (or rather - the Blizzard of old, the patriarchal but competent one) always had a great track of releasing WINE-friendly software, or at least cleanly coded for OpenGL.

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Do you remember when we were barely able to run Wordpad on WINE?

What a journey it has been...

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I really like FreeDroid (and FreeDroidRPG), having been a huge fan of Andrew Braybrook's original Paradroid.

This RPG variant shows all its age (a Tux look-alike hero, nerd puns galore, dated graphics borrowed from the 80s, cheesy gameplay, some story gems, etc.), but it can be entertaining and even challenging. Think of a "reverse retrogaming" experiment done with some passion and a lot of perseverance.

Wouldn't break any sale record, but it's nice to have available to a wider audience than some obscure package buried in the "extras" of linux distros.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: syylkI really, really want to like Nvidia.

I pretty much never want to like a corporation.

Right. I should've said I want to like Nvidia products.

I can't forget that nv basically meant "gaming on linux" for the best part of two decades.

Evil corporation? Sure.

Providing me with the foundation product I needed from UT99 onward, when ATI drivers were just a framebuffer for software rendering in OpenGL? Doubly so.

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I really, really want to like Nvidia.

In the past two decades, my graphic cards were from the green team, From the MX200 onward, I hopped through most generations - either for my gaming rig or for friends/family - until my current 1080Ti. For such a long time they were synonymous with decent graphic boards on Linux.

But these days it's becoming harder and harder to like and support NV, with their products and policies.

It's quite disappointing, to put it mildly.

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So many hours dumped into UT99/2003/2004, thanks to icculus! Oh the fond memories, when Epic was still a brand to cheer for... I still have the physical copies of all of them.

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In a way, it's also the fault of rich countries spoiled brats using VPNs to fake buying from overinflated ones, so to have a colossal, undeserved, screw-you-all discount on something that's absolutely, positively leisure-only.

Gaming is great, but it's not a god-granted human right. Enjoy as much as you can, but if/when you cannot, ffs don't mess with other people (be it devs or people in countries with less robust economies)!

This makes my blood boil.

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The active timesinks atm are:

- EVE Online
- Elite: Dangerous / Odyssey (playing this game franchise since 1984...)
- Shakes & Fidgets
- V-Rising, with my wife
- Empyrion Galactic Survival
- Subsistence, with my family in my homecountry

On hold but played occasionally:

- Seven Days To Die (native)
- Valheim (native)
- Vampire Survivors
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 (native)

The backlog is just too long. I hope I can live enough to play half the titles I'm curious about.

Most of them in 4K because, you know, age-walled Deck wouldn't go easy on my eyes! ;)

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