There are games that we cannot play on Linux because of anticheat, which detects wine/proton translation.
How do I tell the company that produces this game that I am interested in playing it on Linux?
The company behind the game I am interested in does not allow any e-mail contact. The only way to contact them is the ticket system. I sent a ticket that I’d like to play it on Linux, but got only a generic response to follow up on news etc.
Maybe if we flooded them with such tickets, they would finally see that it might be worth considering?
What do you think about it?
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Best you can do is say your piece publicly (eg: their forums) and move on
I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I consider that in this scenario (as a Battlefield 2042 player) there are only three possible options:
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The company kindly activates Proton/Wine support, but they don’t do it because they love their users, they do it because they realized that specifically the Steam Deck has a certain market share that they are losing.
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Valve makes an agreement with those companies and with the anticheats and allows us gamers to play from Linux as if it was Windows but not bypassing the anticheat, but implementing some kind of anticheat also for Wine/Proton.
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The one I consider most likely, we’re screwed and we’ll have to wait for some hacker (or experienced users) to figure out how the hell to make the anticheat think we’re in Windows when we’re really in Wine. It seems to me that this happens with some Wine prefixes that I have no idea make it possible to play LOL on Linux.
- Headless capitalistic entities don’t love their users.
- Native support or this are the best case scenarios.
- Those workarounds would probably get flagged as cheating by those anti-cheat software, hell, some of these work as literal rootkits. I think Riot/LoL is a special case, they don’t directly support it, but also don’t treat it as a bannable offense, or something like that.
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Best just to boycott those games/companies and play/promote Linux-friendly games.
Say “go fuck yourself lul” into the mirror to save yourself some time.
Maybe if we flooded them with such tickets, they would finally see that it might be worth considering?
I’ve worked in customer support and most of the time these type of tickets just get a copy pasted response basically saying thanks for your feedback, kindly go fuck yourself.
If you want something that could be reviewed I’d suggest contacting their legal department or even their HR department. The other option is to look for individual employees emails and socials and just message them.
I recommend not doing any of these things though, because it can be quite annoying to deal with these types of requests, as you will likely not be the first person to suggest this.
Basically, if the problem is the “Easy AntiCheat/EAC”, all they need to do is to add 1 line of code for it to run on Linux! If they (game devs) don’t wanna do that, play another game, honestly!
