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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 98 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being so insanely wealthy, you can afford to leave money on the table and shoot yourself in the foot at the same time. Disgusting.

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

It's EA, I'm surprised they're not making the minimum requirements Windows 11.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 84 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

How dumb does one have to be to intentionally drop support for the hottest game console of the year?!

It boggles my mind.

Also, as a non-pirate (by laziness, not by conviction), I feel like I'm being offered an eye patch, a hook and a parrot every time I interact with a AAA game publisher.

Edit: I keep half expecting EA or Capcom to publish a press release outlining their favorite ways to obtain their games without paying, in order to work-around their own bullshit DRM. It's bizarre that they really think this crap is helping them.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think they just got tired of everyone hating Blizzard and Sony, and decided to remind us all that we used to hate EA the most.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm curious if they still have the most downvoted comment on Reddit.

Edit: Yep.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Jesus, and by an entire order of magnitude, too. I forgot about that.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago

as the saying goes: play EA games, win EA prizes

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 51 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Steam should allow you to download older versions when companies pull bullshit like this.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the equivalent of Sony requiring PSN account in countries where no PSN account exist. Just on a different technical level, but with the same outcome. This should be illegal.

[–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised Valve hasn't pushed a condition about this in their contracts stating that they can get a Verified badge only if they agree to keep the Steamdeck as a supported platform.

[–] napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This game never was verified. It was playable despite being unsupported, which it is not anymore.

[–] RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh yeah I read platinum on protondb and thought it was verified, my bad.

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That or adding to all the games from the same publisher that are verified a badge meaning “has intentionally made become games unsupported in the past”

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like that. If they add that, I'll spend more money with them in games I'm currently waiting to buy because I don't trust the publisher.

[–] Stampela@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

The main thing I can see being wrong with my idea is that, if enough publishers do it, it’s going to be a pointless badge.

[–] doona@aussie.zone 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Surely there isn’t that big of a cheating problem in a fucking rally driving video game, to the point where you need ring 0 anti cheat?

Regardless, this rise in invasive anti cheat is getting seriously annoying. I hope the right person gets pissed off and finds a way to make them run on Linux for the sake of the rest of the community, but even still, I’ll continue to play single player experiences and leave my mental health intact.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Every single version of DiRT Rally has MASSIVE cheating problems

Really spoiled the online stages

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Really spoiled the online stages

And now this change spoils single player.

[–] kaputter_Aimbot@feddit.de 13 points 5 months ago

While neither EA nor Steam ever said anything about support for Linux or the Steam Deck (the store page stated unsupported), it's still a dick move inserting kernel level ~~antichrist~~ anticheat MONTHS after release, altering the deal and making the product a security and privacy nightmare!

Also a really bad business decision to scare future buyers away, with Linux gaming gaining traction thanks to Steam Deck and the likes.

I personally won't buy anything from EA going forward and stick to my statement from the games Steam forum:

Another reason to just wait before buying a game, especially from large corpo publishers like EA!
Releasing unfinished, buggy games for prices north of 60 bucks AND "altering the deal" MONTHS later, rendering the product either unplayable or making it a security and privacy nightmare, is a big, BIG pile of BS!

Don't let the FOMO get you, learn from this.
Make your voices heard and place an appropriate review!

And by all means: try to get a refund!

...or this WILL happen again!

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[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like "ew no thanks"

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I think it’s hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like “ew no thanks”

I don't think the technical details reach the people making the decisions. They may have heard "Steam Deck works with PC games" (because there is no distinction between PC and Windows for them) and then don't allocate resources for a proper port to Steam Deck.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 35 points 5 months ago

Clearly EA weren't satisfied with only getting the "worst company in America" award twice.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (24 children)

Yet another proof that Proton is a great stop-gap solution but Valve should be pushing game publishers to make native Linux ports.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 56 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If a company isn't willing to support steam deck/Linux through an easier support option like proton, I highly doubt they'll be willing to support it with higher effort native ports.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a hardcore Linux fan, the only way I see game devs publishing native Linux ports is when when it has a >30% market share.

But I'm pretty sure the publishers will still come up with excuses like "The Linux platform is uncontrollable; there is no way to verify the platform integrity because everyone has root"

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

As a hardcore Linux fan, the only way I see game devs publishing native Linux ports is when when it has a >30% market share.

For Valve Linux isn't just another OS. It's their Steam Deck platform which they could promote towards publishers the same way as console makers promote their platforms. This story once again shows that chasing Windows compatibility without using Windows is a stepping stone but not the final answer.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Valve isn't promoting native ports in the first place and suits only know "Works with Windows games, we don't need to care about details".

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago

They would still want kernel level anti-cheat in that case.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

We don't need native Linux ports. Valve already created Linux compatible DRM anti-cheat and I'd be surprised if they weren't pressuring publishers to use it at all.

I really don't know what more they can do, other than refusing to sell games that don't work on Linux, which would obviously hurt them very badly, considering that makes up ~2% of their customers.

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[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

People are still buying EA shit.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Good thing I was already de facto boycotting EA games. Not necessarily out of conviction, but because all of them are total shit and simply not worth my time anyway, especially compared to what else is on offer elsewhere. Haven't even started on BG3 yet.

[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago

Cool, I won't buy shit from EA anyways.

[–] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I hate this game anyway. Codemasters was my favorite dev until EA bought them. Game stutters on high end PC hardware. Wouldn't even try on the Deck.

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