It wouldn’t astonish me if this were a semi-deliberate act by microsoft. While they’re trying very hard to expand to every platform, non-windows pcs seem to be the exception. Linux and OSX have the game gamepass support as your phone.
Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game
vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Seeing this pains me, especially considering Id Software’s history with Linux. Prior to being bought by Bethesda, every Doom game, and at least most of Id’s other games, had native Linux ports. Even Doom 3 had a native Linux port, it doesn’t seem to work anymore but there are source ports like Dhewm3 available for it.
BreakerSwitch@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 1 month ago
This is what happens when bean counters make the decisions. Linux is only 4% of market share so I am sure the cost of supporting Linux users was not worth it.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
What’s so fucking annoying about these DRM issues is that basically all of the AntiCheat and DRM we have WORK ON LINUX IF YOU ENABLE ONE FUCKING SETTING
Easy AntiCheat for example is quite literally a checkbox at some point of compiling or whatever, I’ve seen someone do it!
Newsteinleo@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Shows you how little they value Linux games
Aux@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It never is just a checkbox though. You have to test the result and with Linux you have to test dozens of distros. For a fraction of users. If Linux crowd wants to be taken seriously, they should settle on a single distro for everything.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Lol