I really wish more devs made it possible to disable them. Just, run the game without it, connect to servers that don't care (or even better, provide a way to run private servers).

But you're not seeing the bigger picture! Making anti-cheat optional (even to single player) would open the game up for modding. How would this poor publisher make money if you could mod in the things they make you pay big money for. You have to think of the investors!

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This sort of thing is unfortunately rather common. And not just Linux. IIRC, this is similar to the beef that OBS had with StreamElements building a modified version with the same name that caused support request going to the wrong project.

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@Valck The games may not benefit from running them in Proton, but Proton benefits from testing those games.

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I finally remember to check this thing out. I get why they wanted to change something. In the stream client, you already have a top bar with functions and there is no need to have a duplicate of those in the store page. It made the store seem disconnected from the client. It still does, but now because of the different theming.

I have no opinion on it though. I don't really use the store from the client at all, which is why I hadn't noticed it.

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As with most stories, the truth will lie somewhere in between, just how far from which end? I am very curious to know.

On the one hand you have a big money corporation and you'd have to believe that they'd do something for the good of the game instead of getting out of a 250M obligation.

On the other hand you have the leaders of a studio that pocketed several hundred million dollars when they sold the studio to Krafton with more on the way. And now you'd have to take it on faith that they remained down to earth and just as committed to the product they were working on. It'd be really impressed if they managed that.

So I think I'm just going to ignore this mess and play a game!

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After speaking with dozens of potential strategic partners, Krafton clearly demonstrated that they’re aligned in helping us achieve our goals and can both enable and guide us through some of the largest upcoming challenges we’ll face as a studio.

Translation: they paid us the most.

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Yeah, I am at a loss here. Copyright is incomprehensible to me. You ask for permission, you get it, have a license and then get taken down anyway?

There are two problems here. First one is the DMCA, which is a stupid US law that puts the burden of proof solely on the user of a certain digital product. This opens it up for anybody to get something offline without having to proof anything themselves and stores like Steam have to do this. So this claim may still be false, but how the hell is a solo dev going to prove that?

The second problem is that unless there is an official registration of something or you actually made it yourself, it is hard to know who actually owns something. It's like that so called NFT "ownership" thing where the only actually prove that you own that number, but not the thing that it "points" to.

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A quick look over at ProtonDB, and it looks like everyone is using Proton sadly, and the few who use Native report mixed impressions.

The standard version is OpenGL and it suffers from a bunch of slow downs. The Vulkan Beta performs much better and it's how I finished the game back in the day (2016/2017), so should not be a problem for modern machines. Also part of gaming history since it is one of the first full games that used the then brand new Vulkan API (The Talos Principle being the other one I remember). It's unfortunate that Linux support got hidden due to publisher politics and that even fewer know that the Vulkan beta exists.

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I was wondering how I don't have Mad Max yet.

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Antitamper

So, that's why.

Only the Windows version though. Linux build is clean.

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Another reason why Stop Killing Games is a good initiative.

I'd say this needs a "Stop creating badly thought out live service games and use the talent for better projects" initiative.

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