The Fortnite crisis between Epic and Steam is growing. Following the news that Fortnite, whose rights were previously held by Epic Games, may also be available on Steam, the company’s boss Tim Sweeney reported that Fortnite will not be on the Steam Deck. This shows that the game will not come to Steam either.
Actually, the news emerged after some attempts to make Fortnite Proton compatible. With such moves, the question arose whether Fortnite would become a suitable game for Steam, and then Epic CEO Tim Sweeney made the necessary explanation.
Twitter, “Do you have plans to update Fortnite to make Proton/Wine compatible with anti-cheat apps like Easy Anti Cheat and BattlEye on Linux?” To the question, Tim Sweeney replies, “No for Fortnite, but great effort is being made to maximize Easy Anti Cheat compatibility with the Steam Deck. That we can tackle cheating at scale under a wide variety of kernel configurations, including custom ones. We don’t have confidence.”
In summary, Fortnite will not come to Steam and will not be played on Steam Deck. But on the other hand, this statement also caused news such as: “The CEO does not trust his own product!” Let’s see where this topic will go…
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