Gregory's ServerIt's pretty crazy Valve can give a game a Steam Deck Playable rating, give it a special banner on the Steam page to note it's a most-played game on Steam Deck....and then the developer can just add anti-cheat, not enable it and tell people it was never officially supported huh?
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@gamingonlinux Nothing there confirms one thing or the other :) I guess time will tell. @seyon I'll just point again, to the article of mine i linked you to, everyone is wrong on this, developers don't need kernel-level to block Linux, it means nothing for us  Well there goes my 10 bucks. I think I am just gonna avoid buying multiplayer online games even if they work on Linux unless the game is listed as officially supported on Linux like CS2. Unfortuantely I hate to play solo. Online gaming is fun because I can chat with my friends. The other day I was thinking about GTA 6 and was sure that Rockstar will definetly enable Anti-Cheat on online mode. I was not expecting GTA V to get that treatment. But having seen the amount of cheating on GTA V, it is justified. I myself always played with Closed Friends Session to keep cheaters out.  @gamingonlinux It's like Rockstar is just fucking over any person on Linux or has proper security measures on their computer.  @gamingonlinux time and time again, I have to repeat this to free operating system users: games that don't support any system outside of Windows and Mac don't care about you, you're not even second class citizen. Proton/Wine is a bypass you use and others made. They don't give a dime to the developers of Proton/Wine or any kind of software that you're using to run their games. They don't give a shit. @gamingonlinux First time? @gamingonlinux not to downplay how disappointing this must be for GTA V Online players, but as a long time Linux gamer (~20 years at this point) I'm not worried about having to boot into Windows any time soon. There are so many games that work effortlessly on Linux thanks to Steam and Proton that I'm never going to run out of entertainment, even if I can't play everything. It's a night and day improvement over wine in 2004. - rockstar press hasn’t replied @gamingonlinux the wording of the FAQ regarding the Steam deck also reads a bit like "We don't give a f..."    @gamingonlinux Honestly, this is why I use GOG to buy my games whenever possible. As long as I have the offline installer backed up, I know my game will continue to work as expected.  @gamingonlinux one more name to add to my list of "no more money from me"... Bungie To people who keep saying Microsoft are removing kernel-level stuff, it won't solve the situation, which I already wrote about: @gamingonlinux It won't solve it directly, but if win32 games are forced to abandon proprietary kernel anti-cheat in place of some kind of standardized Windows API, then potentially that API could be implemented on Linux/Wine. A lot of other things need to fall in place for that to happen, though. I've been wondering what Valve were going to do about this for a while, I've speculated that maybe SteamOS could ship with a signed kernel, secure boot, remote attestation and run games in secure VMs? |
@gamingonlinux I guess that thing will be solved pretty soon by Microsoft (who would tell): https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-paves-the-way-for-Linux-gaming-success-with-plan-that-would-kill-kernel-level-anti-cheat.888345.0.html