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Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The CEO has a wierd hate boner for Linux. Like it would be one thing if it was just anti cheat but he like personally hates Linux. It’s weird.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was binary for UT2k4 that never made it to Steam for no good reason. Fuck Tim Sweeney for delisting the Unreal franchise.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s dumb. Steam needs competition.

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    • themagzuz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      wdym? fortnite is owned by epic games. that is steam’s competition

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We just said Epic doesn’t like Linux. I want a Linux compatible competitor to Steam.

        I run Heroic Games Launcher and it works well, but support should be native

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• silicon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably because of anti cheat.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s because the CEO is a weird corporate ghoul

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• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, it could be. Like, there’s no reason that the program its self couldn’t run through a comparability layer like wine or proton.

  It’s just that it, like many other big multi-player live service shooters, it requires kernel level “anti cheat” programs. Basically programs that run at the lowest level of your system and check what’s running on the system, making sure the user isn’t running any cheats or altering how the game runs to cheat. They need to be at the lowest layer to prevent programs below them spoofing the checks they are running. So if they detect that they’re not running at the lowest level, they tell the game not to run, or at least, not to allow the player to join online matches.

  These could theoretically could run through a compatibility layer, but then they wouldn’t be running at the lowest layer of the system, defeating the point of them. They would have to run natively on Linux, and the companies that make them have not made versions that run natively on Linux.

  The actual efficacy of these anti cheat systems is dubious, as there is still cheating in games that use them, and they’re super invasive, being basically spywear. But they’re required by a handful of major games.

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  • SoftNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think if the steam machine is a huge success like we think it will be and a large Linux playerbase emerges it will happen eventually. No way they would just lose out on all that profit.

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