Congrats! Quite a milestone for Mesa.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

It launched.

Matt Bertz of Game Informer: Does the store use any style of digital right management, and can players play these games offline or is an internet connection required?

Tim Sweeney: We do not have any store-wide DRM. Developers are free to use their own DRM solutions if they choose.

It's not clear though, if they provide DRM-free packages/installers like GOG. So far there is no word on it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuyApple are really trying hard to be useless for gaming, huh?

They are obsessed with mobile cash cow and don't care about gaming or even about their own PC users, so it's not surprising.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

According to Ars Technica [External Link]:

Sweeney told Ars that the company plans to "start small" and will "sometimes fund developers to release games exclusively through the store"

Heh, that's not a promising start.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BeamboomAnd Spyker is right, the battle for the exclusives are as hard as ever, only they use 1st party devs for that. That's why they (Microsoft, Sony, etc) purchase developers all the time.

Exclusives are only an issue when there is market monopolization. I.e. when publisher owns the distributor as well. As long as market is vertically separated, it's not a problem. The likes of EA who own Origin, or MS who own Windows store / Xbox store are a problem. But for me personally it's not an issue, since accidentally or not, such publishers are also most DRM obsessed, so I don't care about their games. For those who ignore DRM, it can be an issue.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: ShmerlI'm surprised they didn't mention Linux explicitly. With Tim Sweeney constantly complaining about MS lock-in, you would have expected him to put Linux front and center in the store announcement.

Except there's this tweet [External Link] which is basically a big fat "Nope".

That was a while ago, and he also later posted about Linux in a more positive way. See here [External Link].

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: MohandevirDo Epic ever contributed to some open source projects? I don't know the answer to this question but could it be the reason why we are so skeptical about Epic going Linux?

They look involved in the Vulkan and OpenXR working groups. Not sure if they ever actually contributed to FOSS code.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestUh.....FreeBSD!

Hmm....give me time, I'm sure I can think of something else.

RedoxOS?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: SpykerThird party exclusives are dying, but not first party which are increasing.
On PC Fortnite can be considered as an Epic Store exclusive.

I don't care about first party ones most of the time, since they are by big publishers who push DRM. And as you said, third party exclusives aren't a thing and such developers are also more likely to release DRM-free and for Linux.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestThey will push the exclusives approach. With more and more competing stores, they will each need something to set themselves apart from the competition. Enter exclusives. It happened with streaming services, it will happen here too. It's been happening in console gaming for years

From what I've heard, exclusives are dying out in consoles space. It makes zero sense for developers to limit their reach. I.e. as a developer you want to sell in all stores to reach more users. At least for independent developers, who aren't controlled by the store itself.

View this comment - View article - View full comments