Last year, they all came crawlin' back to Steam, and this year was another strong one for Valve.

From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin’ back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

  • @shadohEnglish
    26•11 months ago

    Maybe there’s a disproportionately high amount of linux users on lemmy, cause I keep seeing it come up in the comments. But I would use Epic if they had linux support. Heck some games like satisfactory I have access to on both cause I paid for it twice lol

      • @shadohEnglish
        0•11 months ago

        For reference I do have it installed… i think… The one that runs overwatch/blizzard games, haven’t played or launched it in about a year though. As apart from fortnite, which I just dont play because of lockout, satisfactory is the only one I have on there i care about. Plus I can share the epic login with my less fortunate windows friends… dont tell anyone I said that though haha

    • @[email protected]English
      7•11 months ago

      Call me whatever, but Valve does so much for Linux gaming that when I do buy games I make sure to get them through Steam. Between Proton and the Steam Deck it seems like Valve is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Linux gaming is in a great place right now and Valve deserves a lot of credit.

      They also have Steam Input which is incredible. The customization and control you have over your experience is insane.

      Epic Games on the other hand can’t even be bothered to support Linux properly. Valve earns their cut.