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[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 76 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All of this anticheat bs is still making the baseline assumption that the problem needs to be solved at the expense of the players.

It's illegal to steal someone else's property. We don't enforce that law by cutting off everyone's hands preemptively so that there is less demand on police to solve a problem that hasn't happened yet...

If people are assholes and go against the wishes of society, you police and moderate them. If they can't moderate their platform, that isn't the fault of the community - it's a failing of the corporation. It's such a ridiculous mindset. It's a fucking video game...

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

You deserve an upvote from everyone and anyone whomst has ever played a video game online

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There was a time when my steam friend preasured me to get Apex Legends, but I refused because of piece of shit EA. Seems I made a right choice.

But then again nobody plays that anymore, so nothing gained, nothing lost.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

EA fucked us out of a TitanFall 3. And a 3rd Alice from American McGee

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Block EA on your steam page and avoid all this bullshit.

[–] Emerica@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you fully block a publisher? I’m sick of seeing Activision and EA games up there so it’d be great if you can.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Steam allows you to ignore publishers.

  1. Go to the steam store page for publisher.

  2. Select the gear icon. Right of the "News" tab

  3. Select Ignore this creator.

[–] Emerica@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Little late but, thank you! Got it done.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago

What a shame, my kid plays this on our Linux pc, he's gonna be devastated.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That sucks.

Apex was the game I played with my friends to keep in touch long distance. Guess I gotta find something new now. Sure as he'll ain't installing Win11 for it.

I guess it's been a long time coming. The dev decisions and priorities the last few years have really made it feel like I'm the last person they want playing their game.

[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

If you are looking for a semi competitive shooter, I'd highly recommend The Finals. Tons of fun and solid gun play. Game isn't officially supported but runs great on linux.

[–] exu@feditown.com 8 points 7 months ago

Deep Rock Galactic?

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Let me guess without reading: kernel-level anti-cheat?

[–] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Nope. They had anti cheat that supported it, but they experienced higher issues with cheating via linux than elsewhere. Which sucks. People who cheat suck.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I'm curious to see how Valve will respond to this seeing as they have CS. I imagine they'd be interested to build a solution but I'm not sure how plausible that even is.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I never understand why when this happens the solution is always "cut off everyone" instead of placing Linux players in a lower trust lobby

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

That would just cause legit Linux players to generate negativity by always being stuck with cheaters. It's way easier to just remove support if it really is most of your cheating problems for such a small player base.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Linux users are starting to sound like a bunch of entitled dicks. /s

[–] visor841@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

It's EAC, which is kernel level on Windows but not on Linux. I guess they wanted to go full kernel-level anti-cheat.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

It's using EAC which supports Linux.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok, we kinda don't give a shit about that toxic dead game.

[–] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is still a loss for linux gamers.

[–] BonerMan@ani.social 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically yes but a rather insignificant one. Fuck them.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

I think apex legends is still one of the highest concurrent player games on Steam. I think top is like csgo, apex legends, rust, maybe deadlock? I haven't been online in a while but this is probably how it is based the last time I checked.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 9 points 7 months ago

Oh no! Anyways...

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Wouldn't put it on my deck if it printed me a 5 dollar bill every day.

Nor on my cell phone.