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Re:Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to Direc... by gamblor956 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:51PM (#22173380)
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 (#22174632)
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 (#22173808)
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 (#22174226)
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 (#22174395)
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 (#22175974)
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 (#22178392)
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 (#22181964)
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.