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EA/Respawn now block Apex Legends from running on Linux and Steam Deck

by 0xC0ncord on 10/31/24, 6:46 PM with 8 comments

  • by elmerfud on 10/31/24, 7:12 PM

    I hope Valve responds by just ignoring them. Game companies wanting to put in kernel mode shims for their game. That's just ridiculous and a blatant piece of spyware on your system that is untracked and unknown. Because as we all know if you've read any amount of history these companies cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Perhaps if they wanted to open source their anti-cheat mechanism that would be a step in the right direction.

    Really the big problem is they just suck at writing software and they don't want to put appropriate controls server side because it is more resource intensive for them. So might as well hack your computer, because why not. There is literally no reason user mode anti cheats with appropriate server side verification cannot work.

    Honestly I wish valve would put in stronger customer protections such as disallowing most third-party eula's when acquiring software through steam.

  • by fxtentacle on 11/1/24, 12:03 AM

    I feel like this should be a reason for getting a full refund on all in-app purchases. That way, these decisions will sting at least a bit financially.

    The correct decision, of course, would have been for their server to properly detect impossible client actions. But I guess that's a lot more work.

    The next generation of cheats will probably emulate Windows well enough to avoid detection, so I feel somewhat thankful for them kicking off an arms race that'll lead to Wine becoming more precise.

  • by 0xC0ncord on 10/31/24, 7:07 PM

    While I never personally had an interest in these kinds of games, this is quite unfortunate. For a long time, a major selling point of being an Apex Legends player was that it was officially supported on the Steam Deck since its launch, while Epic Games vehemently opposed bringing Fortnite to the platform. This is pretty sad news to anyone who fell into the former category.