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Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking

by 0xC0ncord on 5/9/23, 7:22 PM with 29 comments

  • by autoexec on 5/10/23, 12:37 AM

    Roblox is making them billions, so I don't buy that supporting a linux client would cost them too much money to be practical.

    Honestly though, I hope they stay off linux and wine. I hope at least some gamers using linux will spend their time on other games. Maybe they'll find some games that aren't full of lootboxes that give children gambling addictions, other games that aren't designed to fill kids with insecurity and FOMO to pressure them into begging for money to spend on endless microtransactions, other games that aren't filled with massive amounts of advertising, other games that don't profit from child labor, or other games that aren't filled with sexual predators.

    There are too many great games out there which aren't abusive and hostile to players (both children and adult) for me to be worried about what happens to a scummy game like roblox.

  • by emptysongglass on 5/9/23, 8:52 PM

    Was it Linus himself who said don't take things away from users?

    The person they quoted from Roblox staff says they have to support a client they release. But why? Engaging with a community means you don't parent them. Tell the community, “hey we can't support this but if you want to support it yourselves we trust you to be adults about it”. That would be the most positive action to come from this. Instead it's very invasive anti-cheat (usually equivalent to rootkitting) and a full on block of Wine. Horrific behavior.

  • by NayamAmarshe on 5/9/23, 8:57 PM

    Further promoting 'Linux = Hacker' mentality. As if nobody could ever cheat on Windows, which they already do.

  • by dmitrygr on 5/9/23, 10:28 PM

    "blah blah blah...excuse excuse excuse...please hack our ridiculous anticheat^H^H^anti-wine system and release as widely as possible. thanks"

    OK, will look into it.

  • by gumballindie on 5/9/23, 9:36 PM

    I honestly believe that companies which dont support linux are made of inexperienced people, be it management or engineers. It’s such a basic requirement that your app whatever it may be should be cross platform.

  • by rolph on 5/10/23, 3:08 PM

    it seems that running an anticheat is greater priority than a linux client

    {{Even Wine support is difficult because of anti-cheat. As wonderful as it would be to allow Roblox under Wine, the number of users who would take advantage of that is minuscule compared with our other platforms, and it’s not worthwhile if it makes it easy for exploiters to cheat.}}

    give cheaters a cheat server to cheat on, get harsh on cheating in the no cheat server, get rid of anticheat, loose its problems

  • by imtringued on 5/10/23, 5:51 AM

    And nothing of value was lost.

    Roblox is a microtransaction infested hell.

  • by RockRobotRock on 5/9/23, 11:52 PM

    The staff response sounds perfectly reasonable. Maybe you should do something else with your day instead of getting mad at a children's game not supporting an uncommon operating system?