That stinks. Considering how well Fortnite is doing, I am a bit surprised that they haven't made a Linux version.
IDK how much it would cost to make a Linux version, but I would think the amount of money from microtransactions they would be getting would make up for it
It must have to do with the lack of profitability, especially after developing an anti-cheat solution.
I'm not 100% certain if EasyAntiCheat supports Wine at all, or even Linux at all, but that's what they (Epic Games) use. If not, they'd have to write an in-house solution that probably won't work.
In the past (again, I'm not sure about the present), CS:GO was victim to having a Linux client; rather, people figured out that it was much more vulnerable to exploits due to it not having a working anti-cheat solution.
> I'm not 100% certain if EasyAntiCheat supports Wine at all, or even Linux at all, but that's what they (Epic Games) use.
It does. EAC detects Wine, and can load a Wine version if the developers enable it. There have also been a few cases where they enabled it upon player requests (without dev involvement).
Switch being mobile is probably why I haven't bought it; we have WiiU, Wii, Gamecube, N64, but my kids if allowed would eschew being sociable in favour of playing Switch everywhere.
We could get it and not let them take it anywhere, but we moved to Steam on Linux pretty much.
IDK how much it would cost to make a Linux version, but I would think the amount of money from microtransactions they would be getting would make up for it