Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮EA / Respawn now block Apex Legends from running on Linux and Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/ea-respawn-now-block-apex-legends-from-running-on-linux-and-steam-deck/
cameronbosch 
@gamingonlinux How much do you think Microsoft paid EA to say and do this?
@cameronbosch Zero, don't be silly
@gamingonlinux Nah, saying Linux "iS fUlL oF cHeAtErS" is pure monopolistic and out of touch. Like Microsoft. Microsoft only "loves" Linux to enrich themselves and entrench themselves.
Short of an anti-trust suit and a forced opening up of Windows APIs, the anti-cheat situation may not be fixable without violating copyright laws.
@cameronbosch that's not what they're saying though, is it, let's not make silly stories
they're saying Linux as a platform enables actual cheaters to do their thing, which it does, as we've heard time and time again
it's not that legit Linux users cheat, it's that it's easier to do so on Linux
uwu1ba@gamingonlinux @cameronbosch fixing your own game making whole classes of cheats impossible to implement? Nah, let's blame Linux users because small percentage of them know how to compile Mesa from source code and make it ignore depth test.
@gamingonlinux @cameronbosch also let's blame Linux users for our own incompetency at working with this platform.
heh
so much cases in game dev
heh
so much cases in game dev
Kura 
:kura_explode:@gamingonlinux @cameronbosch @[email protected] the biggest issue is that they are using proton and not making native games. And that most anti cheat solutions are windows only as well. So many issues, that are almost unrelated to Linux as a target platform.
Btw, Microsoft wants to get rid of kernel level drivers, making many anti cheat solutions unavailable (like vanguard, xcode or whatever that one was called and eac)
What do then?
Btw, Microsoft wants to get rid of kernel level drivers, making many anti cheat solutions unavailable (like vanguard, xcode or whatever that one was called and eac)
What do then?
@kura @a1ba @gamingonlinux Actually, EAC and Battle-Eye have support for Proton. Some developers just refuse to enable said support.
The less I say about Tencent and EA's "solutions", the better.
@cameronbosch @[email protected] @gamingonlinux
apex had linux eac activated at first, before turning it off.
apex had linux eac activated at first, before turning it off.
@a1ba @kura @gamingonlinux But it works on Linux. Epic Games has been in bed with Microsoft (metaphorically) for the long while. Guess why Apple and Google had been sued but not Microsoft?