Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by gamblor956 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:51PM
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Linux users are asking for quite a lot; not just support for Ubuntu and Fedora but for all the random custom builds and drivers out there.
It's simply not worth it when 0.3% of your customers represents more hardware and software configurations than the remaining 99.7%.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by noicebrewery on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @05:07PM
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You're making things up; who are these Linux users demanding anything?
Generally speaking once a game developer gets it working on Ubuntu the Arch wiki guys will happily figure out the rest on their own.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by thethrowboat on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:41PM
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I thought steam only supports ubuntu and therefore games only support ubuntu.
That being said, I use arch and most games just work.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by gamblor956 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:26PM
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Rocket League isn't available on Steam (anymore). Epic does not technically support Linux outside of Android.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by Polycryptus on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:45PM
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Rocket League is not (yet) available on the Epic Games Store, and has not been removed from Steam.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by cosmiccatnap on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:49PM
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It would require them to write it in vulkan which would improve performance across the board on both platforms...so really I think we are asking them to do a job that will cost them more money than they expected for a product they can maintain longer for less effort.
You can have both but you have to know what you are doing, epic is just tending a garden that someone else made and clearly doesn't have that level of forsight.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by rambojazz on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:57AM
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If they release the source, every distro can figure it out on its own.
Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc...
by jandrese on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:03AM
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And if I had a magic flying Unicorn I wouldn't be stuck in traffic.
There's zero chance these for-profit companies are going to open source the current game that they are selling.
And by support I mean a one-off build for the platform and a public forum where users can ask and answer questions of other users. Maybe if you're lucky they'll do a new build when a patch is released.
Linux users aren't asking for much, and Epic has been more than just dismissive to them. They've been outright hostile, doing things like adding checks to make sure the game isn't running under Wine.