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What a weird thing to lie about on the home page of your company.
Not that I would, because it's trash, but you can install Epic Games Launcher on your steam deck.
https://www.polygon.com/guides/23548311/epic-games-launcher-steam-deck-install-protonup
You can also easily install the Bnet launcher (If you wanted to) on your Steam deck. Which was very surprising that it worked so easily.
It's semantic, they mean you can play games from the epic games store.
Fortnite still doesn’t work due to anti cheat which is probably what some people are looking for.
That issue will be true on any linux platform because Epic Games is a nasty company that doesn't care about consumer friendly practices. How will this device get around that?
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fortnite-on-linux-steam-deck-not-until-tens-of-millions-of-users/?n=@
Regardless, to say that the Steam Deck is locked down to the steamverse, is such a weird thing to lie about. You can install basically anything on Steam Deck:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nonsteamlaunchers-for-other-stores-on-steam-deck-adds-automatic-game-shortcuts/
Sweeny also has a personal vendetta against Linux. It's kinda comical at this point.
It still won't work with Playtron since it also can't load Windows kernel drivers under Linux.
The only way this could ever happen without also making it work for SteamOS is if they made a deal with Epic to either support user mode anticheat with their OS or to compile and ship ring 0 anticheat with every release of Playtron.
Fortnite works (confirmed in beta), both anticheats it uses work, Epic just needs to enable Linux support in the EAC dashboard and ship the library to get EAC to work, and for BattlEYE all that is required is an email. They just don't care about us.
It really is amazing at how little effort it takes, and even that is to much to expect from these enormous companies.