Quoting: AussieEeveeI just check this list every time it comes up for Persona 5. Not a game I play, but a friend was complaining it wasn't verified.

Which I don't think people understand is that not verified doesn't mean it won't run. Just that valve hasn't confirmed it to be an out of the box one click run.

borked on protonDB.
dont run, not even close, and persona5 isnt avaliable for pc, what we have is Persona 5 strikers

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWaiting for a windows user to say "But there's not enough games for SteamOS!" :huh:

just think about it for a moment:
why there are 60.000 pc games on steam?
because we have 60.000 niches.
ok, not really 60.000, but you get the point,
maybe you dont care about an game in particular, but this game may be an deal breaker for someone else.
people dont chose the game based on what run on their platform, they chose the platform based on what games run on it, and in the case of steam deck, its much better than switch but people can install windows on it...

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thanks for saving me the trouble of reading 9 pages of comments and replying on why people are wrong on the internt.
actually, i think we have 12 pages there already...

we all should see that coming, but it still frustrating, we are so close, yet so far...

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Quoting: SirBubblesWhen FortNite comes crashing down (as it must at some point) Epic will likely go with it, as that is what mostly funds Epic as a whole.

better not hold your breath then, it may be a fad that people forget after a few days, or may become part of pop culture like pokemon, mario and zelda and be there to stay, forever.

maybe not as popular as its now, but with so many crossovers as they're doing, i think its very unlikely that they will lose popularity

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Quoting: elmapulhave we checked the size and weight of that thing? if linus from linus tech tips complained that his hand were too small to press some buttons with confort, imagine that thing in the hands of a kid!

i think this device might not be apropriate for kids, it may not be targeted at it either, so its not only not gonna direct compete with an switch, but will be too much affected by the lack of fortinite.

It's just a portable gaming PC, you can connect any controller and put the deck on the table or connect it to a tv. If the grip is too big for a kid, it doesn't mean the device is useless. Anyway lots of teens are pretty big I'd say. ;-)

by useless i mean to be used in it intended main use case (portable), it cant replace an gameboy when you are in school recess for example.

but you're right i forgot about the other use cases

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI have a question slightly to the side of the discussion so far:
OK, so Fortnite is a ridiculously popular game. But is it the kind of game people would be likely to play on a thing like a Steam Deck?

One of my kids plays it on a gaming pc (through GFN), while the other plays it on switch. Both are enjoying the game. So I'd say yes.

to be fair, i see a lot of people commenting that most fortinite players are kids (considering the ridiculous ammount of players, its impossible that all of then are kids, but most of then may be)
and guess what...
have we checked the size and weight of that thing? if linus from linus tech tips complained that his hand were too small to press some buttons with confort, imagine that thing in the hands of a kid!

i think this device might not be apropriate for kids, it may not be targeted at it either, so its not only not gonna direct compete with an switch, but will be too much affected by the lack of fortinite.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou know, as someone whose only interest in Fortnite is strategic (lots of people would want it who would be buying a Steam Deck, so it would be good if the Steam Deck allowed it to be played, if I want the Steam Deck to be a success) it hadn't even occurred to me that actual existing Linux users might want to, like, play the game, and so there would be a downside if a solution didn't allow that.

my only interest is strategic too.
steam deck is the "killer app" for linux, so it has to run fortinite, but it would be nice if some people liked steamOS enough on their deck to try linux on other devices like their desktop.

speaking of it, there is nothing stoping nintendo, sony or even sega from making consoles using linux, in fact, they already did with nes mini, snes mini, playstation classic and sega game gear micro (relased in 2020)!
what if switch 2 runs linux, or maybe sony's ps6?, it may be tempting for then to relase an device that already have an big library of game, and while they can do that puting emulators for their own system, the pc library is much bigger and things like proton make ports uncessary, nintendo has strugled to get support from triple A thirdy parties even on switch that is very popular...
hell, we do have atari VCS too! and Intellivision amico!

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Quoting: EikeThere probably are more Linux users than Windows users (phones, routers, ... toasters?)...

... but that doesn't help Fortnite on Linux.

i dotn think you read the context

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Quoting: Doc AngeloI'm not talking about exact numbers either. Maybe I was unclear about what I mean with "the other way around". I am saying that there are 10 times more Linux users than Fortnite players. That's why I asked if you mean Linux gamers or Linux users.

sigh

first off , windows has about 1.5 billion of users with 90% of marketshare, linux has 1%, wich is about 16.7 millions.
some statistics vary the number of users, the best data that i saw say it have 5% of marketshare, lets work with that number.
at the best case scenario 83,5 millions of users. (excluding android)

the last time i checked, fortinite had 250 millions of players.

not all pc or linux users are gamers, not all gamers play fortinite.

so why do you think linux has more users than fortinite has players?
maybe on pc, considering fortinite is also avaliable for android, iOS, playstation, xbox and i think switch.

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Quoting: NociferExactly. The fact alone that Epic a.k.a. Tim Sweeney has already collaborated with Valve to bring official EAC support to Proton and the Steam Deck points to him at least sincerely believing what he says about Fortnite. He didn't block Proton from using EAC, it's rather the opposite, even though he could. And after all, EAC is one product (and its use affects the game companies that opt to enable it, not Epic) and Fortnite is another product - a company can have vastly different strategies for its different products, according to the target market for them.

not to mention that their investment to port EAC to linux, may be enough to guarantee that the cheaters will not have enough of a demand to hack other games, but hacking fortinite will raise the demand, and it may raise enough that their investiments would render useless.
in other words, bringing fortinite may be enough to kill EAC on linux and all the other games in the process...

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