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Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 63 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Bring back the Rocket League Linux client or eat a fucking dick, Epic.

Some folks forget Rocket League had a perfectly running Linux version of the game UP UNTIL Epic bought it and shitcanned the Linux version.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Doesn't it work flawlessly via proton?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I wouldn't know when they dropped the Linux client was the day I dumped the game

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You could even get a full refund for your purchase. I did with 100s of hours and the original purchase being years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    It was gifted to me, so I'm not sure how that would work.

    EDIT: Upon reflection though, it would be nice if you could refund your friends for a game they gifted you that you weren't actually into (as long as you make sure it doesn't hurt the friends feelings first of course)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    On Steam you can, you request a refund (effectively just removing the game from your acc) and then your friend needs to request it as well for it to proceed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    They refused my refund request for Rust when they pulled Linux support. This was a few years ago though so maybe they've changed policies since.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It was kinda annoying that you had to fight for it. I can't imagine how many people who put down the game for a few years and checked up on it to find the Linux version is no longer supported and they're beyond the point to request a refund.

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    • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It’d be pretty funny if the Linux client will be actually usable unlike the windows version

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, when I switched to Linux, I was amazed at how much better Heroic launcher was for Epic games than the official (Windows) Epic games launcher.

    I sincerely doubt whatever they come up with for Linux will be worth it.

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    • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Nice, one more OS where I can choose to not use it.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You used Windows just to use Epic Games Store?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I think you read it inverse

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  • [+] -11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    You mean the support for Linux is a bad thing and he chooses not to use Linux anymore? (whereas Linux isn't even an operating system, but blabla) If that is the case, I don't get the logic why.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Bruh, he's saying he doesn't use EGS on any platform.

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    • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    I guess that's cool but Epic Games will still be at the bottom of my list of game/app stores that I use.

    For context, I've been using a chart of game/app store with scores based on multiple categories and sorting them into a list to keep track of which ones I should be prioritizing. With on how I currently have them rated, the Epic Games Store will go from a 1/10 to a 4/10, which means that it's still at the bottom of my list.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Where's GOG on that chart? How would you compare it to Steam?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Both GOG and Steam are tied near the top of the list with 9/10 scores.

    But I should mention that since the chart was made specifically for my own personal use, it may not be the best for public use (which is why I haven't posted it online anywhere). If I am to have it posted anywhere, I'd want to make some adjustments like giving certain categories more weight and expanding some others, maybe even add more. I probably wont though, as I'm just one person and I know for sure that my own biases will get in the way.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Isn't that how all good charts start out? One opinionated person makes a list of what makes sense to them and maybe attaches a methodology for how they arrived at the order or points.

    In my book, GOG would be 10, but I have never purchased a game through them, so it seems they're not perfect after all. I wanna give steam less points cuz they are only dealing in licenses, so besides Gabe & SteamOS, they feel no better than Epic.

    So maybe Steam is a 7 for me, and GOG is only ideally a 10, but in reality I paid them as much as I have Epic ($0).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I guess your right, I might relearn HTML so I can open another website through neocities. I used to maintain a website under a different name there but I deleted it, thinking that I wouldn't use it again. I would just post it to Odysee (the Youtube alternative) since they have more than just videos but I don't know if they'd allow me to link to websites like Nutaku.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I've done it. I've create my website and finished creating the page dedicated to game and app stores. It took longer than I was expecting but it's in a good enough shape that I can fix any issues with it and add some more stuff to it tomorrow. I've also changed how I rated every app store, GOG is now 13/15 and Steam is 12.5/15. Here's the link to the home page. I'm going to bed now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Dang, awesome list!!

    You made me want to check out rawg.io, but it's throwing a cloudfare error 😅!

    I like how you break out the point categories, but I don't understand what you were doing with the stars (they seem to appear randomly).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Also yeah, RAWG has been down for a few days now. There is a possibility that it may shut down soon. From what I understand, it's been almost completely abandoned by it's owners for years now, which is unfortunate because it is a great platform.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    RAWG is back up now if you still want to check it out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the hollar! I checked it out and it reminded a of a long-lost website called videoeta.com. It basically listed the planned dvd/br releases for any upcoming movies.

    I think I like rawg. I just learned there's a new God of War in the pipes! I'm guessing rawg isn't a distributor, but that wasn't clear, even though you clearly mention it above that section. I think the same scoring method sent me for a trip (no shade, just thought I'd give my 2 cents).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Oh yeah, RAWG is just a game recommendation platform but it's great because it's completely community managed, meaning that if there are games missing or games that have missing/incorrect information, you can add/change it yourself. It's also not limited to just one system or app store, in fact, the very first game I ever reviewed on RAWG was Super Mario 64.

    Also, for some reason your comment reminded me that I'm aware of Moby Games, which is just a game database that's somewhat similar to but quite different from GameFAQs, you'll understand if you use it. But I've added it to my website and, based on how I've been scoring these websites, it has a 14/15 score. I can't believe I forgot about Moby Games since it's such a solid platform for finding games to play and I've had an account there for several years now. Obviously, RAWG is still better overall but Moby Games will be better for when I'm trying to find retro games to play, since RAWG mostly just recommends me newer games and I sometimes like to play older games.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mentioned it at the top of the page, if you hover your mouse over them (only works on PC from what I remember) you'll get an explanation for that tile. I should probably make that clearer since I did kind of bury that in the paragraph at the top of the page.

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    • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Can't wait to get 20 Fortnite ads. And then an error message that Fortnite doesn't run on Linux.

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    They specifically went out of their way to not support Linux no way will I ever buy their games .

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Good, now i can ignore it on Catchy OS...

    ...Wake me whe GoG Galaxy and MO2 gets native versions for Linux

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Fellow CachyOS user (we’re like the lil’ brothers of Arch!).

    While I do appreciate GoG working on their own native launcher - is there anything wrong with just using Heroic for both GoG and EGS?

    Only tangentially related, but I specifically claim every single game they make freely available on multiple accounts - just in the vain effort of costing Tim Sweeney money, even though I am yet to launch even one.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    To be honest, as much i despise the AI polemics over Lutris, is still the superior option for modded old games.

    I tried migrate my Fallout Tale of Two Wastlands and Skyrim modlists to heroic (thank God OpenMW runs natively) and both failed spectacularly.

    Skyrim didn't compiled the CS shaders and Fallout wasn't loading the reshade effects, i didn't even bother in migrate the others (Ultima, Daggerfall, Saints Row 2, Fallout London).

    I think then a native GoG launcher and MO2 port to Linux would be a better option, consider all my modable games, except Left4Dead 2 and Half Life Alyx, are from GoG versions

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    • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It already has - Heroic works just fine.

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    • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Eat a dick, Tim Sweeney.

    https://xcancel.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/964284402741149698

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I always laughed at this. The difference here Tim is you can VOTE and make your voice heard with the US and democracy. Microsoft has a monopoly. They don't care as long as they get enough users to buy in, it's financially viable to them and they force it on everyone. But hey, what do I know, I've been a Linux user since 2007 and I've been SHOCKED at what people would put up with on their PC and Microsoft's Windows.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If they don't integrate Proton as part of this to allow all those Windows games to just work, and then also don't subsequently make at least a token effort to contribute to Proton's codebase, this isn't enough for me to care. On the other hand, if they do actually do both of those things I may be willing to end my nigh on a decade boycott of their services.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    This is exactly why I don't think this will actually happen because it would require Sweeney to suck up his Valve hate and use something Valve created and considering how he'll straight up do anything to oppose Valve that's a lot of sucking up to do.

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    dont need

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Last time I checked a few years back it was impossible to put multiple items to the shopping cart, leave a review or get community help with a game.

    Is the game store good now?

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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    They looking to support cheaters now? /s

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It won't be as good as Heroic so who cares?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Well, when something like Alan Wake II comes around, the problem for me is that I have no guarantee from the seller that it will continue to work on my operating system. If I'm an officially supported customer, I have some recourse if they push an update that breaks compatibility for me.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    “The digital distribution storefront equivalent of cancer thinking about moving to Linux”.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Is the windows version worth using yet?

    Or is it still just a store tacked on to the unreal engine launcher?

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    • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Do they even have user reviews implemented yet?

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