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

The fact that companies think client side anti cheat is a good idea is so insane. Maybe try designing your server better instead of blaming the operating system for not letting you control your users

Someone did the math on Twitter.

There is about 2900 Linux gamers playing Apex.

So even if 100% of Linux gamers cheated it could in no way be the majority.

What I think happened is the dev team struggled to solve the problem so they used Linux as a scapegoat when leadership came down on them.

Just a reminder you can add a publisher to your steam ignore list such as EA or Ubisoft.

Edit: This video shows how

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iUUj2Y2MIE

How much fucking harder/extra work is it to maintain a Linux version of something? God damn, I don't even really use Linux outside of servers and I still think it's bullshit how little support it gets because it's like a Catch 22. Nobody works on it because nobody uses it; but nobody uses it because nobody works on it! (For gaming, anyway)

It's amazing how much actual change this one piece of hardware has done to bolster Linux's share of things, but it's still also just kind of a drop in the bucket.

Fuck EA

Cool, fuck EA.

If you accidentally ban linux users in three[1] different[2] banwaves[3], then linux was only halfway supported in the first place, even if they overturned (almost) all of those bans.

I think the real reason they did it was EA's financial situation. Since money is tight, the amount of resources they were willing to put into real linux anti-cheat probably dropped to "none at all," and now we're here. Otherwise other cheater-prone games like Counter Strike, Overwatch, Halo, The Finals, DayZ, Hunt Showdown, etc would have probably dropped/blocked linux by now too.

GET THAT REFUND!

NO TUX, NO BUX

People still play Apex?

Does this have anything to do with the other Steam related headline I read in a post earlier: " Games now have to disclose kernel level anticheat on steam?"

One of the few ea games I played,what a shame ig my luck truly died down.
Edit after reading the article it's that same excuse, too muc hakers,dude isnt your game full of hackers wayy before linux users.(I wrote it like that to make fun of companies that say linux is a way for hackers)
But this is the time to quit all greedy companies.
Edit 2 this article is actually written poorly,it isn't a emulator it's a compatability layer.

K bye.

Who am I kidding? I never bothered with that crap.

This must be the drastic change to increase monetization they were talking about just yesterday.

Lame. :/ Guess I'm changing my review then.

Is this not the game I saw an article about like yesterday saying EA had missed revenue forecasts and EA stated a major overhaul is needed?

I guess step one is to restrict the player base more.

This is really going to validate the anti-Steamdeck/anti-Linux gamers. It shouldn't.

"You can't play shitty MMO Battle Royale games if you're on a Linux PC!"

Fucking good. That's a feature.

They just can't stop killing this game, the last few updates have been dog shit and now they do this.

Oh no

Anyway

Well, I'm happy in a way i can't go back in it...

F. Them

Would've cared... If the game had gotten any good updates for the past... Year? Probably more at this point.

They're probably adding EA anti-cheat and that's why they say they're removing the Steam Deck support

These fucka banned me 2 years ago and I never even played the damn game. My brother convinced me to download this and when I opened it, bam, already banned. They new I was just too good and would win every game. Literally the only game I've ever been banned from.

Wasn't Apex Legends the game, that run better in wine than natively on windows?

Oh no. Anyways.