They could at the very least just package it up to run with Wine, but Sweeney is stubbornly set in his linux hating ways. I could use their store through the Heroic launcher, as I do with GoG, but I won't because fuck you Tim.

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johnnyanmac 4 hours ago | parent [-]

If we're being realistic from a business standpoint: Linux is at best, 3% market share. A very passionate 3%, but 3%. Using resources to support such a niche sector is a hard sell.

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f33d5173 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

3% of millions of people is a massive number of people. Given how easy recent work on wine has made porting from windows, it's really hard to defend not having a linux version, from a business standpoint.

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mikkupikku 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a glorified wrapper around curl, wine and a webview, a few interns could knock this out in a few months. For "3% market share" (growing every day, thanks to Valve) its a no brainer, but Sweeney has no brain.

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fooker 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This argument would be a great one in 2016.

Now though, proton/wine works more or less for everything, and the storefront is a web based one anyway.

	▲	johnnyanmac 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd hope this community of all places would understand that "just integrate X with Y" is never as simple as "just". It's still something a team needs to do, and the gain is minimal unless Epic is also going to try and make their own console-esque device. That's the incentive for Steam.