Michael Larabel: A game studio has shared publicly that Activison is preventing a new game from actively being made for "that platform", a.k.a. Linux.
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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.
Despite an insurmountable lead for Windows, MacOS has been in second place. Thanks to the Steam Deck, Linux has overtaken Apple's OS on Steam.
Really just tells you how small the MacOS gaming market was even after all this time.
That’s awesome, well deserved. I love my Steam Deck. Steam OS is fantastic at this point. I can do almost anything on Deck with desktop mode that I use my normal laptop for. Since launch it has constantly improved. One of my favorite devices ever
This comes after AMD's decision to incorporate Linux into their hardware.
Something smells fishy...
Why wouldn't Activision allow the game to be made for Linux when Steam is going to roll out the new Steam boxes? I'd imagine it wouldn't cost a lot to port it.
I would think it would be because of a small userbase, but they're porting it to Mac! C'mon Activision!
Smiling cheap and fishy and cheesy with a side of mac.
I assume they don't think the cost of testing on Linux would be worth the extra sales. Probably they aren't taking things like Steam boxes (and Steam support for Linux in general) into account, but it wouldn't be the first time suits screwed up.
why would anyone want to release a game on that garbage OS?