Except if they did enable Fortnite on Deck… As the game is not on steam, people who want to play it would be encouraged to install the epic store on their Decks (which IS possible, and already something people do to play other games from the Epic store on Deck), which would give Epic an in on SteamDeck.
Enabling EACs proton support for Fortnite would be a means to get their foot in the door with Deck players, but you’re saying they wont do it because they don’t have a foot in with Deck players?
I’m saying they won’t do it because it requires work and they don’t think the market is big enough. As you noted, the process for getting EGS on Linux (Deck or otherwise) isn’t straightforward, so few people would do it, which makes the market even smaller.
And it’s not just enabling an option once, they would also need to do some level of QA testing to make sure it’s playable and not easily exploitable by cheaters on Linux. That all costs time and money.
So I completely understand why they wouldn’t bother, the profit just isn’t there. I still think they should, I just understand why they don’t.
Except if they did enable Fortnite on Deck… As the game is not on steam, people who want to play it would be encouraged to install the epic store on their Decks (which IS possible, and already something people do to play other games from the Epic store on Deck), which would give Epic an in on SteamDeck.
Enabling EACs proton support for Fortnite would be a means to get their foot in the door with Deck players, but you’re saying they wont do it because they don’t have a foot in with Deck players?
I’m saying they won’t do it because it requires work and they don’t think the market is big enough. As you noted, the process for getting EGS on Linux (Deck or otherwise) isn’t straightforward, so few people would do it, which makes the market even smaller.
And it’s not just enabling an option once, they would also need to do some level of QA testing to make sure it’s playable and not easily exploitable by cheaters on Linux. That all costs time and money.
So I completely understand why they wouldn’t bother, the profit just isn’t there. I still think they should, I just understand why they don’t.