Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live

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Zippy Bot · 9 months ago

Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live

🦄🦄🦄 · edit-2 9 months ago

I think this is something that e.g. the EU should look into. Breaking a product for a number of people by adding shit like this after launch should at least be elligible for a refund or straight up banned.

@moody · 9 months ago

Unfortunately, I doubt there’s anything that can be done legally. It’s announced, promoted, and sold as a Windows game. I don’t think they have any responsibility to make sure it works on other platforms, though I think they should do it anyway.

That said, if these companies want people to depend on their servers to play games, server-side anti-cheat makes a lot more sense and is a lot more effective. But they don’t care about what makes sense.

@Ashtefere@aussie.zone · 9 months ago

The problem is not the cheaters, it’s the amount of money they earn from mining your data unrestricted with kernel level access. It’s a fucking gold mine.