"Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"
"Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"
Damn, since when does Ubisoft care about Linux?
Since people bought steam decks.
Most of the time Ubisoft games don't work on non-Windows OS, so bold of them to require that.
Some of Ubisoft games don't work well on Windows, so...
They do not create native Linux builds, but for the most part they all work under Protein.
What's the context? What does Ubisoft have to do with Microsoft-Activision?
Microsoft-Activision sold streaming rights for their games to Ubisoft as a concession to avoid being labeled a monopoly so the merger could go through.
I see, thanks!
I don't think any of their stuff doesn't work now. Even stuff like Halo with anticheat has been allowed to work via proton already.
This doesn't provide any promise that you can use gamepass or windows store games on Linux, and it doesn't provide any promise that they don't use anticheat in a restrictive way on Linux machines. They can trivially provide a bypass in the cloud environment that doesn't get shipped to end users.
Hopefully they don't do that, but this doesn't really mean a lot to individuals buying their games.