Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford predicted that the Epic Games Store would kill off Steam 5 years ago, now the internet is mocking him as Borderlands 4 comes crawling back
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The lesson? Never tweet.

It’s almost as if the real money is where the customers are at, and not in little Timmy’s wallet.

  • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Yep, I am a Linux user and a Linux gamer, Tim Sweeney being a huge dick about Linux gaming while Valve has done a ton to help definitely is the main reason.

    I am embarrassed though, I got so tired of still fighting with Linux gaming that I built a hypervisor and I run windows as a vm to game 😞.

    • swab148@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I mean, you probably take a performance hit vs. Proton, but it’s still a valid way of making it work.

      • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I got GPU passthrough working and bought beefy hardware so it feels nice and smooth :)

        It was worth it though to be able to play with my windows friends without telling them I’d try to make it run on proton