We need the game publishers to face more consequences for neglecting a significant segment of the market

We need the game publishers to face more consequences for shoving BS kernel level anti-cheats and not focusing on where it actually matters, server-side.

(Which would also solve the Linux AC problem by extension)

No. It's a video game. Publishers have no business being in my kernel.

anti cheat with kernel privilege access? No, thanks

I mean if the game you paid money for is deliberately broken to shaft you, you are a clown for reviewing the game positively. Judging by the complaints of every game with linux-breaking anti cheat, it has failed to remove any of the cheaters.

Nope, fuck that. I'm not running that anti cheat shit on my machines, I just won't buy it.

Sure. Harassing developers always works. I remember when everybody did it to CDPR about The Witcher 2 so they fixed all the issues and made a perfectly working Linux version of The Witcher 3. They definitely didn't swear off Linux completely.

I dont disagree with this but i don't know about significant segment, thats kind of delusional

I'll settle for the old Rust approach, where you could still play on (or host your own) servers that didn't have anti-cheat enabled.

I'm not sure extortion is the best way to get companies to support Linux. I think market share is the only real metric they care about.

Nearly 800 hours in Scum, now I can't play it anymore because it's missing Linux EAC support. Too bad.

SiGnIfIcAnT sEgMeNt

inb4 all of the "significant segment" gives me a total of 27 downvotes - I am a full time Linux enjoyer on all my personal computers. Including but not limited to all of my gaming purposes. And I'd love for more game devs to release Linux native builds.

I just don't have illusions about being in any kind of target audience for larger game devs.

If that segment of the market was significant, corpos we be bending over backwards for those dollars.

We need the game publishers to face more consequences for neglecting a significant segment of the market

MacOS?

^{(please don't hurt me, it was a joke.)}

The only game I currently play is KSP. I've grown so tired of all the crap out there.

unfortunately for us, I don't think we're what they would consider "significant"

This is like the people who give recipes bad reviews because they swapped the eggs for banana and it didn't bake right.

Gamers will literally beg corpos to rootkit them.

Bully for you.

When I eventually make the switch to Linux your efforts will make it even more seamless.

Are we so desperate that we want what is basically malware ported to Linux? Ew. I didn't tolerate that shit when I was running Windows, and I'm sure not going to start now.

I'll just keep on voting with my wallet, and not pay money for such user-hostile products.

So, as a bazzite enjoyer what in particular need I do?

If you do this to indie publishers instead of directly contacting them, you're a cunt

Based, imo.