‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Was this before or after this: lemmy.world/post/29593011

  Because I’m curious why Valve would have gone to so much trouble to make the game run on Linux just to ruin that.

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  • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well the game runs well if you just launch it with only one Proton configuration and keep playing on that. The issue is changing the Proton version is recognized as multiple installations by the DRM and it locks you out after a couple of tries.

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is what I didn’t understand. Thank you for explaining.

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• newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well cool, now I know not to pick up the game yet.

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• td_sp@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  but the linux circlejerk swears game support is on par with windows!

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  • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s because of testing the game on different versions of Proton, which is treated as a hardware change. The fault lies entirely with Denuvo, and with anti-consumer DRM in general.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the windows circlejerk says private, secure, performant OSes that also play most games are trash not worth trying. Hm.

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not a circlejerk to want to play a game I’ve paid for

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  • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m not a huge Linux stan, but it’s pretty damn close to it. I rarely run into compatibility issues, and when I do, there’s a very high chance a workaround exists. Hell, there’s even times when a game actually runs smoother on Linux.

    In regards to the topic at hand, Denuvo’s activation limit fucks over Windows users, too. It just happens far more often due to the compatibility layer (e.g. proton, wine, etc) making it look like it’s a new computer trying to access the Denuvo servers for a game each time you change it when testing (e.g. proton v8, v9, experimental, etc).

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is if anti-cheats & DRMs are not included in the package

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rule 1 of Lemmy: Worship Linux, or be subjected to poor treatment, unfortunately.

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  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You seem like a sad and angry person

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is, except for the ones that come with built in APTs.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not that I would have bought it - not my type of game - but this game gets on my blacklist.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Only pay money for open source

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• Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  am gonna stick to Classic Doom(including doom 64) thanks even tho i didnt play doom for a while.

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