Maybe I will read all the comments first then comment, because it is amazing how some peeps are just, well, trying to justify Creative Assembly decision away from the straight fact that this is all about money.

Suddenly after 12 years of existence and at least 8 years of CA and Sega releasing games on Steam, Steam became "complicated" or more "complicated" than Epic.
Then the dev revenue/share argument that it is so silly but still lurking people's minds.

Just ask yourself this question, how to save an almost death community in 2008 when consoles were so thriving to the point most of the PC developers we knew then moved to consoles and stopped releasing games for PC in GENERAL(Windows/Linux/MacOS)?

SERVICES and Features!!
And Epic lack both, Epic is a barebone store with just a few bunches of features that even make look Origin like the God of all stores. You cant keep building a community of millions of gamers offering free games forever, you need to offer good services, features, and extra stuff that keep people attached. Guess what is one of that Extra Stuff, PROTON. Proton didn't come from anywhere, it came from that 20-25-30% you are constantly crying about, also Steam Play Together, Workshop and other features that makes people to jump over consoles, buy a PC, and install Steam. Epic is the sure bet to make PS5 and the next Xbox/Nintendo console more attractive to PC gamers, because If I wanted to have a store that doesn't go beyond what consoles can go, Ill better buy a console.
So that dirty 30% you think is going straight to Gabe Newell pockets is really going to developers who are developing more and advanced features, it is creating decent jobs(not those 80 hours a week Fortnite jobs), it is going to create more tools for users, I know most users are just a bunch of mindless people who only seek for their own convenience, but still, they get advantages from this stuff.

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Quoting: CatKiller

While we know that some of you won’t like the Epic Games Store exclusivity, we feel like this is a great opportunity for us in a lot of ways

... because Epic gave us a big bag of money.

You know since EPIC store came to the scene, we are seeing so much bull5h/t PR from gaming companies that go Epic exclusive. Not even consoles, EA(Origin) and Microsoft were so sassy when they launched their exclusives in their stores. It was so simple "It is exclusive for our store, get it here or GTFO"
But suddenly gaming devs have become so hypocritical.

I don't know if I gotta get banned for this, but fuck EPIC, fuck these devs, and fuck people who support Epic in any way. You have made of PC gaming a full wasteland of liers and dishonest marketing with press releases that are offensive to the reader's intelligence.
This is the kind of stuff you see in politics. Since EPIC entered the store race, PC gaming becomes like a presidential race in the U.K., USA, or any of those countries were tabloids, and the press in general use disinformation and half-lies/truths to influence people's vote.
This is trash, just say, "we take the money" straight to peoples face, we already know Tencent/Fortnite money is huge, so you can not say you are making this for anything. If I don't like it, I just don't buy your game, as same in politics, if I don't like a candidate, I won't vote for him/her!!

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This is fun, It is like a baker has to give the bread for free because the bakery is awful, dirty and your assistants are rude guys.

It is obvious at this level since they have to take money from Epic is because they have ZERO confidence in their product. So whoever Linux user was interested on this, maybe you aren't missing that much.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPHard to tell for sure at this point, but the recent developments seem to point toward Epic succeeding.

Please note that this is something I'm genuinely looking for more information about, so I'm not being sarcastic when I ask, what developments would those be?

Tim Sweeney tweets, since everything else about EPIC, sales numbers, users, people online and other stuff is secret unless some developer tweets sales numbers, which the only source is the same dev.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: BeamboomIt's all VR for me nowadays!

Does it feel lonely, being the only one! :P

Haha! I'm actually surprised over how many of us there are. I've discovered, for example, a lot more colleagues at work has it than I was aware of.

Ah, the "I know a lot of people", the same argument I use as a fighting gamer, to not feel Im not a niche of a niche gamer.

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: BeamboomNo VR games to look forward to? It's all VR for me nowadays!

I simply don't follow VR as I don't have it, so I wouldn't expect much VR from GOL any time soon.

But we need you on the VR train! Could we do a gofundme or something, see if we can gather enough for you to order a set?

Wow, way to go for VR, being so exclusive that you need crowdfunding to get one. I don't think Liam is exactly someone that poor to not get decent hardware, still no VR.

Quoting: SlickMcRunFastThere is a VR coverage void for Linux. Many articles that need to be written like why games from 2016-2018 can never be ported (unity engine didn't support VR on Linux) and why nvidia/facebook/epic are terrible companies.

I can't hide my despise for Epic, but at least Epic can be installed on any PC and doesn't need expensive PC hardware to run. We now have almost half a decade since VR was introduced and it is right now a real most elitist thing in gaming in general. The void you talk about is not only on Linux but the gaming scene as a whole, but somehow this 0.90% thinks VR deserves more coverage. Like asking sports media to coverage Camel races instead of football or Basketball.
Sadly while you are pretty vocal about how VR is great, you(I mean most VR gamers) seem not to be uncomfortable at the fact that is technology available just for a few. And the worst, seeing this in a site that shares news about gaming in an Open Source OS is just way mind-boggling.
I mean VR is right now totally opposite of the spirit of Open source software, one could think five years could be enough to close that gap, but somehow VR is getting more expensive, not counting used devices that seems to not be compatible with half of the new VR games.

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No one here is to blame but MacOS, one of the richer companies on the world, still they want to force developers to use Metal and other closed source crap they own.

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It is funny to see any of these GOG fanboys actually talking about Stadia when Cloud Gaming is the perfect form of DRM, I mean Google did what Denuvo never achieved.

It is pretty clear that the anti-Gaben vibe is strong around here. But Im quite sure they will be around when Steam release some form of cloud gaming.

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Quoting: MohandevirI would like to see GoG integrate Proton in some form... Maybe offer proton wrapped versions of their Windows games, if at all possible. I'd be a lot more inclined to support them. Having to deal with Lutris or wine is not something that I look forward to...

The thing is these anti-drm people don't get what DRM is about, practically you are asking developers to work on a "trust" system when they depend on the "goodwill" of people that they will not share the game you bought without DRM through any portable storage system to other people that didn't buy the game. It is like the disc/cassette era with the difference you still keep your copy of the game.

Most of you end of you ended any debate about this matter with the sentence "This is my choice" so as you want your opinion to be respected you should respect devs choices too, and if they decided they need at least some sort of protection, good for them, I completely agree.

I just played my steam TW3 copy without internet connection last week because of a mistake by the ISP, so this "argument" of players needing constantly internet to play their single-player games is just bogus.

But you GOG users keep wishing GOG will use proton, keep wishing more devs will release more games on that platform. My money is going at least to a company that makes things to happen, Valve, I live the reality, I can play windows games on my linux install with a single click.

You can keep dreaming that GOG will be a thing one day. Good Luck.

PS: Proton is open source, still needs someone to work on it, does GOG have the money, the interest or the people capable of doing the job? NO!

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Thanks for the tip, it looks really useful!!

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Well done for Paradox, I dont care about DRM(actually I never mind about DRM(except Denuvo)) so for the whole majority that just enjoys gaming this is a good deal and you are helping which is more important than focusing on your own personal preferences.

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Quoting: sprocketIts a shame that so many of these games are locked behind Steam, with no DRM-free options.

I feel pity for the anti-drm people, instead of focusing on these developers giving their games for nothing so everything goes to the charity, they just focus on their personal taste about how games are distributed and managed.

You arent some sort of "freedom fighters" as you see yourself, but just a vocal minority of people looking just for their own good...

The world is facing something really big right now, your priorities is to have a copy of a game in your hard disk.

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