Quoting: SslaxxHow bizarre. Why would Epic want to support a rival project, commercial or not, open source or not?

Unless they're going by the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" principle...

Nothing Epic has been doing lately makes too much sense from a business perspective.

I think it's just because Tim Sweeney is still a programmer at heart. He's trying to compensate for that with seemingly badass business practices. Probably because he read in a book that that's how you do it.

But let's be honest: As soon as the Fortnite millions are missing, the EGS is over, because it simply lacks the business model. In the end, Sweeney pays publishers and customers to use his shop. Valve on the other hand is probably still in the black with its Linux commitment. This is the subtle but significant difference between programmer Tim Sweeney and GabeN the businessman.

But it's definitely wise to take the Epic money with you as long as it's there. Because there's just no future in it.

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And there is the first Linux exclusive title!

;P

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Epic is the last fucking mess. How many more games are they gonna ruin? The trial casts a sulphurous light on the Epic Store operator. Will the PC support simply be discontinued as soon as it fits the bill? No one knows the status of Windows in 20 years.

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they will be hiring for Stadia in in Seattle/Kirkland (USA)

Separated from Valve by the Lake Washington ...

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Quoting: subI thought they targeted a high quality finish...?

If this thing gets done at all, it's a lot more than you could have expected.

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Stallman talked some bullshit and pays the price. He should enjoy his retirement. He more than deserves it.

And nobody is surprised that the Gnome project is on the front line. These little nitpickers have nothing better to do. Except, of course, to ergonomically rape their users.

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Quoting: scaineWhy the Discord hate here? Every time someone shouts "spyware" about this app, I do another little search on the internet and yet every time, I seem to end up on the usual fairly paranoid forum and reddit posts that simply put Discord in the same basket as Steam and Facebook.

It is the same as managing your own mail server. It's a lot of work to do but your data is yours. Of course you can use Gmail instead. You have to decide for yourself. But there are already good reasons why people want to control their means of communication themselves.

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Quoting: lod

Quoting: liamdaweI did notice that sandy shores Linux audio bug finally went away :)

Oh, yeah, that was finally gone a month or two ago. It got fixed in the first bigger update after Epic bought Psyonix.

The bug also existed under MacOS.

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Quoting: callciferBecause the business case for EAC supporting Linux is no different today than it was a month ago, with or without Epic.

But without Epic no one at Kamu seemed to care. Supporting Linux does not mean violating natural laws. Also it's not forbidden. Also I don't think it's economic damage either. An anti-cheat system must work on many different platforms and should be designed to do so.

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Quoting: AllocA) That's not VAC.

But closely related.

Quoting: AllocB) That requires an accordingly big server infrastructure hosted by the dev/publisher that only the really big parties can afford to run. Even more so when you want to allow people to host their own servers.

Well, you do need some hardware, but it's not rocket science:

https://www.pcgamer.com/vacnet-csgo/ [External Link]

Quoting: AllocC) Even that will never catch everyone. Anti-cheat is always a battle between the "good" and the "bad" guys.

But with the AI solution, however, the guy with the largest amount of data wins. And how do you want to recognize external cheats that work with image recognition and that don't change anything at all on the PC?

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