mr_MADAFAKAEA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum
woelkchenYet another proof that Proton is a great stop-gap solution but Valve should be pushing game publishers to make native Linux ports.
arthurThe cost to maintain “native” ports is too high to make sense for most developers.
You are getting downvoted by people that have no idea how software development and maintence works.
Every feature cost. More than most people realise. Both in development time and to maintain it over time and releases. It all adds up, not saying EA are correct in not supporting it. But to think it is free is just incorrect.
They made a business decision to not support it. We think it is the wrong decision, but it is ultimately theirs to make.
ricdehGames made in Unity or Unreal Engine literally do not require any additional effort from the developer aside from choosing Linux as the build target from a drop-down menu. So native Linux ports of UE and Unity games cost virtually nothing.
You still need to keep supporting it for future releases, make sure it actually works and not just builds, test, update QA pipeline, tell support, etc etc