[MFogleman]

Rocket League's creator, Psyonix, was bought by Epic last year. The is concern/belief that this move is a precursor to making Rocket League an Epic Store exclusive, as the Epic store is Windows only.

Psyonix stated that they would offer refunds for Linux/ macOS users. In the first few days post announcement, everyones' refund was being denied. It appears that this has since been resolved. I received my refund yesterday.

[globalproctd]

The Epic Store is not Windows only. I run it, and games from the Epic Store on my Macbook Pro.

[jovial_cavalier]

But Steam as a platform pushes linux, because the Steam box is linux-based.

[m4rtink]

This is one extra thing I don't like about Epic store - Valve has a Linux client & hosts many Linux native games, is active in many open source projects including GPU drivers and even actively works on improving Wine/Proton to get Windows games run seamlessly on Linux.

Epic does nothing like that and even actively pushes games to be exclusive this Windows only, using their Windows only client.

[ssully]

Just to be clear, it took Valve 10 years to add support for Linux. The Epic store has been out for a little over a year. I have no idea if Epic will eventually support Linux, but I find it hard to fault them for lacking things that Steam has when Steam has existed for 17 years now.

[mikewhy]

> Epic does nothing like that and even actively pushes games to be exclusive this Windows only

Don't Epic make Unreal Engine, which supports Linux? I'm not sure it's fair to say they do nothing, if that's the case.

[iamdelirium]

Why are people still just blatantly wrong about the Epic store? It is NOT Windows only.

[KitDuncan]

People forget MacOS, because it's even worse for gaming than Linux. (I game on Linux btw and am happy with it)

[wink]

FWIW, tried to play Borderland 3 this week with a friend and he couldn't get it to connect, at all. Booted into Windows, worked fine (I was on Windows).

So yeah, the store works - but that doesn't mean the "Linux games" work, or work fully, with network.

[lijason]

Are they refunding the microtransactions/in-game store purchases? I read that they weren't but don't know if that's been updated.

[thethrowboat]

I dont think so. I purchased keys and those were not refunded.

[bonestamp2]

Are you going to play Rocket League on Windows? I ask because I wanted to let you know that it performs much better on the same hardware in windows than macOS for me (bootcamp). I bought it on steam so it was easy to move from one OS to the other. Not sure how it would work in your case, but hopefully the epic store saves that data across their platform on different OSs.

[dripton]

How did you ask for your refund? I tried twice through Steam and was rejected both times.

[VectorLock]

How are they telling if you're a Linux/MacOS user? You just ask for the refund in Steam and say you're a Linux/MacOS user and thats it?