Recently, Gabe Newell said during the Casual Connect conference that Windows 8 is a catastrophe:
“[Windows 8] is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. We’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. … It will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.”
To this comment, Blizzard Entertainment Executive vice-president of Game Design Rob Pardo agreed:
“Windows 8 is not awesome for Blizzard either.”
Blizzplanet speculates Blizzard Entertainment might consider Linux as an alternative if Newell's vision of a future post-Windows 8 turns out to be as grim as portrayed by the former Microsoft employee and Valve co-founder.
Blizzard Entertainment is currently developing an untitled Next-Gen MMO, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III patches and its expansion.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.
This joins the likes of Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition, EA SPORTS FC 24, EA SPORTS FIFA 23, Battlefield 2042 and Madden NFL 24 that all have EA's own homegrown anti-cheat that make them simply unplayable on systems running Linux.
Now if you try to run it, you'll be greeted with an error. A shame to see a game that's multiple years old get broken like this and no doubt EA will continue to use their own EA anticheat in future online games. Battlefield 1 is still okay, and Apex Legends is also still running but perhaps it's only a matter of time before EA force it onto those too?
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47 comments in hours bf5 won't launch anymore ea is saying meh not my prob bitch tosses a faq
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Yes counter cheating that is good but when the ea app on pc is still totally broken and these cheaters are on 2042 same anti cheat this is just putting scotch tape on trumps file cabinet to prevent leaks its nothing more than a stop gap.
I mention ea app as for 4years it was in beta then tossed out with 3 year old issues and i still cant not get the products that i purchased on origin yeah i purchased digital but guess what there is no dvd games on pc anymore.
The rough part of all of this is that for those of us on PC mostly be it Windows or Linux based, the anti-cheat sucks up a lot of resources. It kind of reminds me of the conversation between, security and freedom. Too much of ether is both good if managed well or very bad. We just as gamers keep seeing this pop up over and over again. Wish I had some magic wand to stop cheaters... but I don't... hell we just seen what happened with Apex at a high level event.. getting that kind of access and such is not good... but at the same time. Can anyone, one person provide me an example where Anti Cheat has even like a hit rate above 50? I know I'm pulling numbers out of my ass, but it seems the cheaters beat the systems in place time and time again. Where there is a lock, and a smith to make it. We always will have a thief that breaks it.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
I guess Blizzard will stick to supporting Windows 7 and below until Microsoft no longer support those OS, and if Windows 8-9 no longer make it feasible for game developers to continue working with the platform.
Man for some reason i think companys are feeling butt hurt because of the Windows Store thingy
Let's see how Windows 8 changes till the release
Why is it people are saying things now when it's most likely to come out in October this year. Bit late now guys, you could of changed the way MS was handling Windows 8 if they said something a little sooner.
Haven't read why Windows 8 is hard to develop for yet, but I'm guessing it'll be another PS3 situation. Developers will complain, but eventually they'll have to go for it. Just a matter of how long they decide to put it off.
Just stick to Windows 7 like everyone else then.