Quoting: GuestNext up Ubisoft?

Nah. Microsoft is highly opportunistic with its aquisitions. Unless it explodes in its hands -some angry Activision shareholders being able to fight this- this is obiously them getting Activision at discount price thanks to the recent exploits of the Bobby Kotick charming persona. Culture aside, Activision is a money printing machine.

They might not do good games (in the good old Blizzard sense of it), but they do games that sell a lot to the masses. Hadn't this abusive stuff exploded we would be here reading again how Bobby announces record profits, appoints himself a crazy performance bonus, how he thanks his eployees for their desperate crunches that made for another year of financial success and then fires them in mass to squeeze a little more profit now that development is not needed anymore.:sick:

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"Go home Liam, you're drunk."

I admit that's the first thing I could think when I read the title. :grin:

Ok... that's heavy. I need some time to digest it.

Personally I don't care for Activision. But Blizzard is associated with a lot of my young age good memories. Ofc that Blizzard is gone, destroyed forever by Bobby long time ago. M$ won't ressurrect it.

But who knows. Microsoft is indeed changing its company culture in the better. Slowly. But surely. Maybe in the long run, once Bobby is removed for good (ofc he will stay for the time being), under Microsoft they will again produce good games made by gamers for gamers (possibly without abuses this time :tongue:). Or maybe not. For sure, the way things are right now, there is nothing to lose. Starcraft is the only thing I care right now and it's already in mantenance mode. So I'm fine I guess.

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Imho subscriptions are... evil. They are rarely price/efficient for customers and they tend to quickly add up to unreasonable monthly total expense. No wonders publishers loves so much.

As a personal policy I have cooldown periods for all family subscriptions. Including Netlix, Tidal and such. I'm the nightmare of the publishers I guess. I made an exception for gol though. :P

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Quoting: mr-victoryWhich type of EAC does Fortnite use?

For games in active development it matters less. For games with indefinite life like Fortnite it doesn't matter at all. You find the resources to integrate with new libraries and APIs to ensure of the success of the project for its whole lifetime.

For old games in mantenance mode it's a different story. Updating a library it's not a given but can be done if it's a reasonable effort (the fabled "few clicks"). Refactor the game to use a different one (especially when the software works as is) it's a desperate case to make to management. In any industry not just gaming.

EOS anti cheat supporting proton opens the door for new games to be playable on deck. (and that's very good and not a given, don't forget that)
EAC not supporting proton shuts the door for old games to be playable on deck.

That's the simple, transparent message that should have been given to gamers, even if it makes less PR.

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Quoting: GuestPeople need to stop making this out to be some conspiracy by Epic, when it isn't.

Excuse me, what?

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Quoting: SakuretsuThe thing I really wanna know is:

Was Valve aware of that before they made the claim of "just a few clicks"?

Epic made the "few click away" announcement [External Link].

EAC was bought by Epic (not Valve) a few weeks before they announced EGS (and imho when they did, and Tim explained his "gaming vision", it became clear why they bought it. So the actual surprise was that they were supporting proton just because it would benefit gamers, not that they use it as a troyan horse to impose their infrastruture in the industry).

Reading it now it's clear that they didn't outright lie and that they really meant "Epic Game Services -which includes EAC" support is few clicks away. But the press (gamingonlinux on top in this case) wasn't disingenuous when it wrote that EAC was one click away either. Only actual devs trying to make this work know these kind of details, like that the same product EAC has two different libraries with different licenses and stuff attached. I mean, after the articles Epic could just release a statement and let the press disambiguate this. New games will probably use EOS libraries. But there is no way old ones will undergo all the work to integrate it when EAC library works fine for its intended purpose.

But I guess they were just happy to get free PR and then leave to the individual devs to deal with the unrealistic expectations of their fanbase. And possibly create attrition with them (ovbiously it's not just Vermintide, it's plenty of "plz do the few clicks and support proton" threads on EAC games Steam forums).

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Quoting: GuestI'm simply pointing out it's disingenuous for one dev to put all the blame on Epic here, they're not the one's relying on Proton.

The blame is on the "one click away" choice of words.

With those words they created a lot of expectation from his players and now he has to go on steam and explain that not only one click away means integrate a different library into the game, it will also require an EULA update for EOS (or at the very least some lawyer work to understand if this is the case).

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From this [External Link] thread it looks like it's more than a few clicks away and there are quite a few string attached.

It's been what, 3 months since the one click thing came out? It's strange that only now someone points this out.

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Quoting: hardpenguinI think people commenting here today confused GamingOnLinux with some mailing list for free software and privacy zealots...?

While I understand the point of the concerns over intrusive anti-cheat solution, the problem stands. I would rather play one of the most popular video games in the world on Linux thanks to Proton than to use Windows. And so would many other Linux gamers.

Such a pity.

It's not that cheating ruining otherwise good games is not an issue. It's that there must be better ways to fight cheating than having intrusive and shady software look into all your memory and send reports back to some remote location.

Have the game run into some trusted, standardized container and have all the worst shit you want and some more run isolated there with the just stuff it has to monitor. At the worst make something intrusive but open source so one at least knows what it actually does.

Just don't make one sided spyware that has access to all your memory and expect people to trust you, your collaborators, your investors, all your providers and the government(s) that rules over all these people to make only your multiplayer interests with everything they get out of your machine.

People who play games with anti cheat should seriously consider to run that stuff on different partitions than where they use their sensible data. Even if it mean to have two Windows partitions.

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Call it what you want it, but that's Spyware. I don't see why anyone should put effort to support that on linux. I don't see added value, but damage here.

A shame for who likes the game, but if you have to make your pc insecure for it, make a Windows partition and use it to play pubg, while you use the Linux one for all the serious stuff like banking, shopping, play sensible games and so on.

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