The developers of Apex Legends have announced that they’re going to be blocking the game completely on Linux platforms including Steam Deck.
Fine if you don’t want as many customers, but I understand the business model is increasingly comparable to gambling and focuses on whales.
Friendly reminder to give your fair and honest Steam review of Apex Legends after EA’s most recent changes. 😈
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was some garbage ploy by Microsoft/shitty developers to make Linux look bad for being unsupported to increase the spyware that microsfot peddles
God fucking damn it. Fuck off with the anticheat bullshit. Fucking plague is destroying gaming. If the whiny tryhards want “cOmP3Tit1v3 int3grIteE” or whatever dumb excuse the devs pulled out their ass this time then just make RANKED mode locked behind this malware-powered prison shit. Don’t ruin the game for everyone. The majority of the player base isn’t whining about cheaters, and this is true of pretty much every game. It’s the tryhard comp scene most affected, let them enable it to play comp. At least give us the option to play on non anticheat servers. I hate how every multiplayer game is ruining itself over this garbage.
FUCK EA.
Hope this was a lesson to anybody still playing their garbage.
Haven’t bought an EA title in years and no regrets. It’s like donating to the GOP at this point.
Edit: I mean if DJT started a gaming company that’s EA.
They lost me at the release of Battlefield 3 with hundreds of bugs, many completely game breaking.
For example:
To this day, there are still times when you can fire a tank at a jet, and SEE the explosion happen and then the jet still keeps on flying even though you scored a direct hit on it with a TANK SHELL.
I say to this day because the bug was still in there when I stopped playing and they had certainly stopped working on it.
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That is already the case on Android phones with unlocked bootloader. Banking apps (in my experience) will either completely not work or only with limited functionality when run on a unlocked phone.
Unlocked bootloader should be fine. Now rooted android is a whole different beast…
To eliminate this cheat vector, we have made the decision to prevent access to the game for Linux users. This means that Apex Legends will be unplayable immediately for those running this operating system. Playing on handhelds, such as the Steam Deck, is still possible if the user opts to install Windows.
translates to them cutting off linux support so people will be forced to use approved operating systems like Windows which will require more hardware which means more money for those companies and more intrusive anti cheat software that gives users data away
way more than just about Windows and some games
this is about locking users into approved environments with no wiggle room just like on Tron
