As always, more nuance is inside, but some major bullet points:
- native Linux support for the launcher
- very openly vibe coded, if that’s a line in the sand for you
- Fortnite will be, but is not yet, updated with a new version of Easy Anti Cheat to be compatible with Linux. Yes, there are versions of EAC compatible with Linux today, but not up to Epic’s standards of cheat prevention, and whatever is up to their standards requires coordination with distro maintainers.
- their FAQ openly mentions the necessity of compatibility layers, but I don’t see any mention of native integration with them
I can’t tell if this line is supposed to be self-deprecating or what
Tim Swiney is really dumb and has no idea how to read the room. I doubt this was a joke
It is. The Epic Games Store infamously launched without any of the features that are standard for online stores, like customer reviews or anything more than basic information about the product. They didn’t even have a shopping cart, something that was widely mocked at the time, and it was like an entire year before they got around to adding one. The only reason the store got any traction at all was because they used the billions they were making from Fortnite to bribe players with free games if they made an account and visited the store every week.
I don’t know why he’d poke fun at himself like that. The whole thing was the sort of fundamental development failure that you’d normally want everyone to forget about, but here he is giving people excuses to share stories about how incompetent his company is.