I mean if you run on an operating system, you’re not really serious about anti cheat. You should require all of your players to buy your own hardware that is sealed in a titanium box. They should have to give a blood sample before each session, and they should have to be completely surrounded by webcams the entire time. Better yet, have them report to their nearest prison’s solitary confinement wing for a 100% monitored play session.
Let’s get actually serious about anti cheat.
If I need spyware to ensure I’m playing a game right, that’s a game I don’t need.
Dude should ask Linux players how they can actually play games with EAC and Battleye if that box is turned on, then they’ll realize that none of the cheaters use Linux (if any at all). Most, if not all of them, use Windows with specialized scripts.
Third rate game’s developer says people who already have EAC working on proton are “not serious” uh…
Why hasn’t the amazing economy propelling AI industry fixed cheating yet?
Arc Raiders was just deck verified
… Rust still exists? As in, the murder-hobo-survival game that was early access like, 10-15 years ago?
It’s been polished a lot since then (they update every month), but yeah, it’s still around and it’s fun. Sucks that Alistair has this take tho.
If the game Rust is what is keeping you away from being on Linux it might be best you never go to Linux. Just save us all the future headache, thanks.
Games shouldn’t be serious about anti-cheat.
Singleplayer games*
Edit: include non-competitive multiplayer too
Games should be serious about anticheat, it just shouldn’t require a rootkit into the players computer
When we stopped support for Linux, we saw more cheat users exploiting Linux, than actual legitimate users. — reddit
That’s curious phrasing. Did he expect legitimate users to stick around after support was taken away? Or does he mean that there were more cheaters than legit users before support was dropped?
That’s not to say that cheating was super widespread on Linux, — blog
Okay, so his blog post suggests that it was the former, making his original argument really bizarre.
When we stopped supporting Linux, users made up less than .01% of the total player base, even if that number has doubled, or tripled, it’s not worth it. — reddit
When we discontinued linux support in 2019, — blog
The Steam Deck was released three years later, and nearly four more years have passed since its release. The portion of gamers using Linux has grown considerably more than he imagines above, and continues to grow.
Enabling proton support would mean we’re asking the EAC team to provide support for a whole other platform, which we fear would reduce their ability to support Windows — blog
That is a false dichotomy. Rather than assuming what the Easy Anti-Cheat folks would do if more support were needed for Linux, he should probably ask. I would expect them to respond to increased demand by hiring qualified staff, not diverting existing staff to tasks for which they are unqualified. This is how businesses grow.
For now, we’re still weighing up the risks and will continue to explore options with EAC. Don’t expect to see Proton support in the near future, but we hope to have it enabled someday. — blog
I think that’s the most sensible thing he has written on the topic.
By the way, even in 2019 having only 0.01% Linux players in a game that officially supports Linux feels abysmally bad. I’d wager it had Linux support on paper only and when you tried playing it would be an awful experience.
EAC supports Proton, the devs only need to enable it. And if they think something is lacking compared to Windows, I’m sure they could get Valve to work with EAC on improving those aspects.
I know you don’t need to hear this but just for the record, ARC Raiders just launched with EAC and works perfectly in Proton. This dude is either lying or ignorant, and I’m not sure which is worse.
He’s a lying sack of potatoes. I literally called it out on here when I read his gaslighting Reddit post. EA did the exact same thing with Apex Legends, of which my producer was a heavy Apex player on Steam.
Brawlhalla has been running fine with EAC for years too
It’s Platinum rated on ProtonDB since before the actual launch. https://www.protondb.com/app/1808500
Rust? That’s a beverage in star citizen
And what my car is mostly made of right now.
(It was brand new when Star Citizen was announced)
I feel the same about GTA 6, which has been in development longer at greater cost
And nothing of value was lost.
We have Rust at home.
I have no plans to play Rust, so no harm no foul I guess.
The headline confused me for a second. I was like, aren’t they adding more and more rust to the kernel?
RUST is a game, Rust is the programming thing. Maybe we need to normalize that in posting articles lol
Same, I had to double check the article lol. Rust next to the word developer was a sort of short-sighted phrasing.
There is a personal element to this, somehow. The developer’s relationship with Linux took a weird turn at one point and there’s been a will-they-won’t-they tension ever since.
