Tim Sweeney Says Fortnite Won't Be Coming To Steam Deck
Chief Executive Officer of Epic Games Tim Sweeney recently revealed that Fortnite won’t be coming to Steam Deck. While the system is perfectly capable of running the game, the executive is concerned about its implementation of East Anti-Cheat. Sweeney is apparently reluctant to provide compatibility support.
“There’s a big effort underway to maximize Easy Anti-Cheat compatibility with Steam Deck," Sweeney pointed out. The executive went on to say that "we don’t have confidence that we’d be able to combat cheating at scale under a wide array of kernel configurations including custom ones."
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The issue is that Steam Deck is basically just a PC running Linux. Because the operating system is open source, users have access to files that would otherwise be hidden. This allows for all sorts of customization, but creates problems for Easy Anti-Cheat under a certain set of circumstances.
Sweeney said that Easy-Anti Cheat should work just fine for most of the games on Steam Deck. The executive however noted that Fortnite is particularly vulnerable. This apparently is due to the large number of players in each match.
"The threat model for anti-cheat varies per game based on the number of active players and the ability to gain profit by selling cheats or gain prominence by cheating,” Sweeney said. “Hence, anti-cheat which suffices for one game may not for another game with 10, 100, or 1,000 times more players." Fortnite is in other words at high risk.
Players have been accusing Sweeney of undermining confidence in Easy Anti-Cheat. Some have also been pointing out that Epic and Valve are in fact major competitors. What impact this may have had on the decision to
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