Yeah. EA and Respawn have remained largely silent on this. The Verge reached out too and is still waiting for a response. Hopefully, the devs are considering it at least for sometime in the future.
Logically they have to keep the anticheat up to date. So this feature should come eventually.
Besides, having a top10 Steam game not working on Steam Deck is weird.
But the Proton EAC thing must manually be enabled by the developer. They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.
@DecisiveDove wrote:They can update to the latest version and still have the thing disabled.
What it would say?
"We think that the anticheat developers don't know what they're doing so we won't enable it"
"We think that the Steam Deck is bad so no need to support it"
"We think that the Steam Deck is good, but we wait and see, we won't move a finger to check the checkbox to help"
"We think that Apex Legends isn't suitable for the handheld, so not worth to check the checkbox (at the same time we've got a version for Switch and we've actually developed a handheld version "Apex Legends Mobile" for two entirely different OSes using a different game engine)"
EA/Respawn will not lift a finger if it isn't lucrative enough, to add on what @devel_origin mentioned. They'd have to opt-in to add native Linux support for EAC. Although Apex loads fine (menu) using proton they'll have to maintain separate Linux versions of the EAC. AFAIA, unless the deck actually sells, they will not bother.
@jamate2142 wrote:Although Apex loads fine (menu) using proton they'll have to maintain separate Linux versions of the EAC.
EAC is maintained by the EAC developers, Proton working with games is maintained by Valve/CodeWeavers. EA/Respawn has just to check a checkbox.
EA does not have the best reputation when it comes to supporting Linux however, so I doubt they will enable it only to let Linux users play. However, the Steam Deck might ensure that they cannot ignore Linux when they start losing money because of it.
If I understand the text below, quoted from:
https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/services/en-US/GameServices/AntiCheat/index.html
Linux Wine / Proton SupportIt is possible to run many Windows games on Linux using the Wine or Proton compatibility layers and the anti-cheat client protection can support this configuration. To enable support for your game, you must be using SDK version 1.14 or greater and activate a client module for the Linux platform.
Players running the game using Wine or Proton will use the Linux client module, so you should test and activate client module updates for Linux regularly in addition to Windows.
correct me if I'm wrong but the underlined would imply that Respawn/EA would have to put in a bit more work then simply checking a check-box.
As much I'd love to play Apex on Linux, when was the last time EA actually made a game that respected players' choices/opinions more than their money?
IMO, EA will NOT release it on linux, unless there's a profit incentive, the bigger a company is the less it cares about responding to its playerbase.
that's not how it works LMAO? it's the same anti-cheat just running on more systems.
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