Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days
Dagamant@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt doesn’t, installing the game does. The terms of service just let you know that you are willfully infecting your computer with spyware.
Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days
Dagamant@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIt doesn’t, installing the game does. The terms of service just let you know that you are willfully infecting your computer with spyware.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then I suppose the loophole is to play on Linux.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Not in general. Typically, games with kernel level drm or anticheat just didn’t work at all.
Borderlands 2 specifically has a native Linux version though, and it may or may not abuse this fact. It isn’t run in a sandbox-like environment like Windows games that run through proton, but according to protondb it does run through proton? In any case yes, it’s probably better than running it on Windows.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, support for Borderlands 2 continued long after it was clear that Steam Machines weren’t taking off, which means it’s on a newer version than the Linux native one that Aspyr ported. You can still run the Linux native version, but if you want to play with your Windows friends or just get access to all the DLC, you need to run it through Proton.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are you running out as root for some reason? Cause if you are not running it as root, it doesn’t have root access, absent some kind of major security flaw in Linux.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
No of course not, but if it’s run under proton/wine it doesn’t even have access to any normal files. When it’s run natively it does (documents and all that). I’m not saying it’s doing anything with this, or even that it would make sense.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t even give them the storage space tbh…just makes other people think it’s ok because they can claim ‘big yuge numbers of players’
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Borderlands. They already had that claim. I don’t feel good about it, but they made this change after I’d already started this trek. It’s one more data point that gets me closer to only buying games on GOG, but I’m not all the way there yet. It’s definitely nefarious that it’s all good and legal to change the terms of the thing you bought after it’s already been sold to you.