A leading PC-user rights campaigner has voiced concern about video games developer Valve's move to sell Linux-based versions of its products.
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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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.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
Valve has updated its stance on AI games on the Steam storefront, allowing creators to publish AI-created games.
Hell no. I want games that have been made by creative minds who have a passion for their craft, not a bot with a penchant for plagiarism.
So instead of paying for an engine and assets to create a game they are paying for an engine and assets to create a game.
His argument is silly, claiming Steam as a form of DRM, has no business on Linux. It's perfectly "ethical" to finally bring games to Linux.
Surprise, Richard Stallman, not everyone agrees with you.
Also, "That's (windows 8) where the vast majority of users will be and it would be commercial suicide to do otherwise", I have serious doubts about that - Vista already proved that may not be the case, despite how outdated XP had become. Win7 hasn't been out for nearly as long, and I see no compelling reason to switch in terms of features. Instead I see compelling reasons to stick with Win7.
However I still don't think they'll skip over Windows 8, and I don't think anyone suggested Valve would, either.
It's unethical for Steam to sell Linux versions of its games? But Steam is also selling Mac versions of its games. So why is selling to one version is ethical but it's unethical to sell to another? MS doesn't even want to promote Alan Wake for the PC and during last year's E3 MS was too busy promoting the X Box 360 version Call of Duty MW3 instead of the Windows 7-exclusive BF3.
Steam is a form of DRM? Yes, everyone knows that and accepted this form since it's the least painful and restrictive of all DRMs. Have he seen what kind of PC games MS have been making over the last couple of years? They're ALL free-to-play games with Fable 3 as the only exception. Free-to-play games are the next evolution of the worst kind of DRM - permanent online connection.
someone is butthurt....