ampersandrew14h ago

Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post)

https://lemmy.world/post/44684403

Today’s layoffs (Epic Games official post) - Lemmy.World

> …in being the industry’s vanguard we have taken a lot of bullets in a battle which is only in the early days of paying off for ourselves and all developers. Look, at least a little bit of that is true, but fuck right off. At least it’s a good severance package. They owe their employees at least that much.

Show threadthingsiplay7h ago
Maybe we get an Overwatch like hero shooter, Fortnite Rivals… But they do not support Linux, therefore I don’t care what happens to Fortnite.
Show threadSaprophyte

Exactly this. Half of the videos I see about switching to Linux, even if I have never heard the content creator so much as mention fortnite, claim it’s a reason you shouldn’t switch to Linux.

Well, you can’t run this one shitty program popular with twelve year olds so rife with cheating they need kernel level control of your shitty OS to combat it, so no freedom from corporate tyranny for you!

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Show threadthingsiplay7h ago
It’s even playable on the phone, so they would not lose complete access to the game. Unless you are really invested into it, it does not matter on what you play. I have a Xbox, so when I wanted to play Fortnite, i would rather play on console than installing Windows on my computer.