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.
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.
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.
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.
This game never was verified. It was playable despite being unsupported, which it is not anymore.
Oh yeah I read platinum on protondb and thought it was verified, my bad.
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”
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.
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.
Steam should allow you to download older versions when companies pull bullshit like this.
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I think it’s hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like “ew no thanks”
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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.
Every single version of DiRT Rally has MASSIVE cheating problems
Really spoiled the online stages
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
antichristanticheat 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!
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Cool, I won’t buy shit from EA anyways.
