One of the few battle royales that did support the Deck.
  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    11 hours ago

    Just a reminder you can add a publisher to your steam ignore list such as EA or Ubisoft.

  • TurboWafflz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1452·
    13 hours ago

    The fact that companies think client side anti cheat is a good idea is so insane. Maybe try designing your server better instead of blaming the operating system for not letting you control your users

    • NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.deEnglish
      151·
      8 hours ago

      Aside from better server side detection, which is I agree is severely underdeveloped, I’d say that the next big step should be a much bigger reliance on reputation-based matchmaking, ideally across games. It would need to be built in a way that’s not abusable by devs or trolls and should be as privacy-respecting as much as possible (as in, not having to validate with your ID South-Korean style), which isn’t an easy task. Working properly however, it would keep honest players from seeing any cheaters at all with no client-side anticheat required at all, which would be nice.

  • sp6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    11 hours ago

    If you accidentally ban linux users in three[1] different[2] banwaves[3], then linux was only halfway supported in the first place, even if they overturned (almost) all of those bans.

    I think the real reason they did it was EA’s financial situation. Since money is tight, the amount of resources they were willing to put into real linux anti-cheat probably dropped to “none at all,” and now we’re here. Otherwise other cheater-prone games like Counter Strike, Overwatch, Halo, The Finals, DayZ, Hunt Showdown, etc would have probably dropped/blocked linux by now too.

    • Dark ArcAEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I would be so upset if Hunt Showdown did this.

      Hell, I’m mad Apex Legends did it and I have very little time invested in that game.

      I really wish game developers would stop with this kernel level anticheat nonsense that doesn’t even work. Everyone in every gaming community just points the finger, people that play games using Easy Anticheat say Battleye sucks and vice versa.

      If kernel level anticheat actually worked, there would be a definitive answer to which games have good anticheat.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    4 hours ago

    These fucka banned me 2 years ago and I never even played the damn game. My brother convinced me to download this and when I opened it, bam, already banned. They new I was just too good and would win every game. Literally the only game I’ve ever been banned from.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      13 hours ago

      you gotta contact EA about it, and something’s telling me they’re just going to quote some part of their ToC telling us to get fucked.

      • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
        8·
        13 hours ago

        alright then flood them CC charge backs, let them explaining to their payment processor why everybody decided to do this all at the same time ;)

          • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            142·
            13 hours ago

            Counterpoint - Devs need to eat. Especially devs that are thoughtful enough to enable their anti-cheat to work on Linux. So yeah, they had my attention, my support, and my money. In return I got to play a fun game and rock some cool skins and accessories - it certainly seemed like a win-win. Now they’ve retroactively backed out of their support, and I’d like to back out mine as well.

            • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
              7·
              12 hours ago

              Agreed to a point. I don’t care so much that “the devs need to eat” because these are AAA corporations, not indie devs. The moderate gains and losses aren’t directly affecting the people that actually made the game, they’re just affecting the bonuses the CEOs get. What does matter though is that if we as Linux gamers want them to care, they need to see that Linux users are generating revenue. They’re greedy corpos and revenue is all they give a shit about. I’m OK contributing a small amount to games that continue to support Linux. I’m OK spending $5 every few months to buy the Overwatch 2 battle pass if it means Blizzard sees that someone who only plays on Linux is generating income. I’m certain they looked at the money coming in from Linux players more than the actual number of said players when making this decision. The only way to make corporate monsters care about you is to feed their greed. Sometimes, feeding them a small amount can potentially help your cause.

              • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                6 hours ago

                What does matter though is that if we as Linux gamers want them to care, they need to see that Linux users are generating revenue. They’re greedy corpos and revenue is all they give a shit about.

                I appreciate you mentioning this, I agree. If linux made a blip on a chart, executives would prioritize figuring out a solution.

              • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                12 hours ago

                I’m not sure what your point is? Perhaps I incorrectly assumed this was obvious but yes - if players do not financially support a game, even “free to play” games, those games disappear. There is not a single company on the planet that is going to continue investing in a negative revenue project for funsies. The teams working on the game are relocated to other projects or laid off, and the game shuts down.

                If you believe I’m in the wrong for supporting a game that, until this point, was friendly to linux - then so be it.

                • rImITywR@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  12 hours ago

                  I don’t really know what my point is either. Sounds like you got scammed, and that sucks.

                  I hope you can get your money back too.

            • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              12 hours ago

              Ah yes, “the devs”. What percentage of the profit do you think goes to the gameplay developers, the backend developers, the designers, the character artists, the environment artists, the QA team, the writers, the voice talent, the localization teams, and the other roles too numerous to list but too important to ignore, that actually create the game? In contrast, how much do the executives, managers, and parasites shareholders pocket?

              Even if you assume a fair division between all people, just look at how long the credits list is. The average developer employee won’t go hungry because a couple hundred players stop buying gamble coins.

  • Kroxx@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    12 hours ago

    Is this not the game I saw an article about like yesterday saying EA had missed revenue forecasts and EA stated a major overhaul is needed?

    I guess step one is to restrict the player base more.

  • Pavidus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    13 hours ago

    This must be the drastic change to increase monetization they were talking about just yesterday.

  • lemmur@szmer.infoEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Wasn’t Apex Legends the game, that run better in wine than natively on windows?