@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.
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