Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next

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• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looks like I won’t buy EA games on a whole new CPU architecture

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now I get to not buy their games by choice!

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• dashdsrdash@awful.systems ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah, one of those “good news” bits that means the opposite.

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• Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ah. kernel-level means fuck off.

  ew. get better server-level protection. stop being lazy

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally no where does it say they’re attempting to modify the kernel.

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    • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Javelin, their kernel-level anti-cheat”

      this. this right here. kernel-level = bad.

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I believe Linux is around ~4 games away from becoming globally mainstream:

  • EA’s FC series (FIFA)
  • Activision’s Call of Duty series
  • Epic’s Fortnite
  • Roblox (playable RN but 2nd class experience)

  One more game would be great for those people that play them and are interested in moving away from consoles.

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• cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would much rather dual-boot than have them mess with the Linux kernel.

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• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I may be tempted to buy their new Battlefield game if they’d support Proton/Linux, but that’s a big maybe. Probably nothing else.

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only reason I installed windows was to play a few games like this. I otherwise do not use th windows install for anything. Login, play the games, log out, log into Linux and do everything else I would on a computer.

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    • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I used to do the same but I stopped dualbooting about a year ago and have been 100% Linux since then. I am not going back to Windows, even for games.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Battlefield is pretty much the only big online game I enjoy anymore, and since I switched legit it’s the only game that I haven’t been able to play. It’d be great if they can figure out some way to make it work. Cheaters are such a huge problem in battlefield that I understand why they won’t bring it to Linux without knowing how to set up an anti-cheat solution. Battlefield 5 was just unplayable because of the constant bots and cheaters.

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    • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Such a shame what cheating is doing to the market. Some part of me likes the idea of getting the cheaters outta there, but another is going “hold up, what about Linux?”.

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• Toneswirly@beehaw.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Good thing EA has nothing worth playing! Or piracy; either one!

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• superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if this means Madden will work on Linux at some point in the future.

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That would just make Linux worse

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not so sure that kernel-level anticheat on Linux is really a good thing…

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