Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux

Comments

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is over not being able to install kernel anticheat on linux. However that same Apex anticheat was used to hack players devices during a tournament earlier this year.

  source

  • morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yep, precisely why I don’t play kernel anticheat games.

    Considering 99.9999% of all the games out there don’t have it, and I have a selection of games large enough to last a lifetime, I don’t lose sleep over that decision.

    source

    • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am convinced that kernel AC is… mostly on games that have a fuckton of cosmetics. Let’s see, who’s against Linux specifically? Destiny, even if it was in Stadia and that was Linux. Fortnite. Ubisoft has it on juuuuuust a select few games, everything else they’re happy to see on every platform.

      source
  • recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    just wanted to also provide an alt video link to the hack that occurred for anyone that has Ublock Origin or Privacy Badger enabled:

    Apex Legends HACKED During ALGS Tournament 2024…

    source

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Alternative video link from Invidious, which is an alternative YouTube client without YouTube or Google: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=LY6PGd8auHI

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not surprised. They banned me for playing on linux earlier. They never got a cent out of me so nothing lost. Never drop cash on f2p slop.

  source
• huskypenguin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing the player base is fairly low and they’re trying to appease investors after their “poor performance” this year.

  source

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If they wanted to increase player numbers surely they’d make something new instead of more micro transactions. EA seems less like a games studio but a capitalist venture of extracting the maximum amount of profit from something

    source
  • SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    By lowering their player base even further?

    source