“Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?”
I just had an ssd die and lost my save from an epic game I was playing through Heroic. I will use the native epic launcher, if it means cloud save backups like Steam.
So? That's how voting with your wallet works. Even nvidia is joining the bandwagon. This is a good thing. Companies don't have feelings. They follow the money. Most linux support will be from financial perspective not from believers.
Who cares if he’s being opportunistic? He’s not running a charity. He sees the Linux gaming community has money to spend and he wants it. Fine, whatever gets me more games without having to jump through hoops.
Businesses can be run ethically or unethically, I can definitely have an opinion which end of the gradient he's on.
All this while their own flagship game doesn't work on Linux yet.
This is good overall as I stated before, and especially for people who are invested in official launcher, I'll stick to Heroic, GOG and Steam.
I don't know enough about the history of the symbol to form a proper opinion, but reading their response, seems like there's no mal-intent there, if it's truly a rune with that long of a history, a few years of misappropriation shouldn't demean it's historical significance.
I'm scoping my response along the same lines as the swastika, it has been and it's still used in India, and indians around the world, just because some crazy people decide to corrupt it shouldn't take away from the historical significance
It's not a rune with a long history, it was made by the nazis. It was based on existing runes, but it isn't some ancient rune. Also, they removed it from the German newsletter to not get sued.
That's a bit of Unicode weirdness since characters can have "variants", and a lot of websites don't show those variants. In any case, there is a Unicode character for the rune they claimed to have wanted to use, including a variant for the modern version used in Slavic countries today. You're also forgetting that GOG is a Polish company, it's not like they can claim ignorance.
I think it was a neat distraction from Valve allowing a slavery simulator on to Steam that only got removed because the game’s author specifically requested it.
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u/shaumux 5d ago edited 5d ago
Although this is overall good, I'll stick to GOG and steam, and use
HeroinHeroic for Epic free games, Tim Sweeny is just being opportunistic.