So EA's anticheat bans linux players
Hello people So i read a post on Lutris about someone who has been banned by FairFight just because the anticheat panicked when it read "dxvk" an opensource library who let us play on linux while yo...
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@EA_Darko > So i read a post on Lutris about someone who has been banned by FairFight just because the anticheat panicked when it read "dxvk"
read again, i wrote i read a post on the forum of Lutris (forgot to mention "forum") and someone (not me) was banned because he played BF5 on a distro Linux and the anticheat FairFight thought DXVK was a cheat.
But DXVK is not a cheat it's > A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine. (Definition find on DXVK github).
Example > What if i play Apex Legends (it's an example i don't like BR) and your anticheat find out i play Apex not on Windows 10 but on Gentoo what will happen ?
Answer > The anticheat will ban me because in its code there is no line who says "linux / dxvk / d9vk / vkd3d (direct X 12), lutris, wine".
So 1 - 2 years ago i said EA needed to join Linux and of course no one from EA reacted because i'm not a youtube/streamer who is in EA influence program.
So what next ? Are you going to join linux and let us play your games without being banned or keep closing your eyes ?
@nenoro_95It is quite clear that EA or Epic Game will never consider Linux after all this years Linux Community has been asking for Linux ports for their games. When you search linux in Answers HQ, you can see the request for linux can be date back to the time of BF3, which was 2012. 8 years has passed, and this request is ignored. Given an update in Apex Legend in February was also breaking WINE deliberately and also the recent ban and suspension of account in BF5, We can safely interpret that as a big "NO" to linux for their games already.
I only kept Windows for only one EA games: Titanfall2. And 99% of my time is using Linux. Windows are as bad as where my other posts and many others peoples who had already stated in Answers HQ (or other forums or in reddit). I am disappointed for EA whom they do not see the Linux potential for their possible business gain. Their refusal on porting games in Linux and calling Linux users as cheaters had enough to cause their old fans and Linux community angry.There's an easy solution to this problem use the FAR superior Vulkan API instead of Directx.
If you talking cheats there probably are 99% more cheaters using windows, perhaps they should begin to ban Windows instead.
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