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A little counter to that narrative, Epic has really been letting me down lately. When Epic started the UE4 project, they promised to take care of us gnu/linux
by arca_vorago 9y ago
A little counter to that narrative, Epic has really been letting me down lately.
When Epic started the UE4 project, they promised to take care of us gnu/linux users. I bought in the second I could. Immediately they started ignoring us. The first year and a half or so most of us Linux people were using a community fork because Epic refused to merge changes. We banded together and we're forced out of their irc and had to form another channel. I tried to be understanding, at first thinking they were low on resources. As time went on and games like Paragon (which I payed $20 for at release and which has now been abandoned, and I'm still waiting for my refund for over two weeks), and Epic started showing off how well things were going, they still basically abandoned us. There is still no marketplace/launcher on Linux, so to retrieve my $500 worth of assets I have to use a windows computer. Major bugs persist in all branches, and not just for the native editor... games like pubg would love to ship for Linux if the crosscompile tool gain wasn't an exercise in cryptic puzzle solving (which is why so many UE4 games are windows only not by choice. All pleas for more resources and love on the forums are met with comments about marketshare and how unworthy Linux is of their time and resources.
They promised us all this love and then after many of us spent lots of money on them they just ignored us. I'm thankful for the attempt for a native Linux editor, but crashes and uncompilable projects have essentially halted dev for me to the point I'm having to consider godot and blender even though they aren't nearly at feature parity, and due to epics licensing all that money on assets is wasted since those assets can only be used in UE4...
I love UE4 when it works. Blueprints, the animation and rigging system, the camera system are all wonderful to work with. I want to use it... but I'm feeling increasingly taken advantage of by Epic.
Tim, if you're reading this, how about a post mortem of the abandonware that is the Linux editor?