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Good thing Microsoft didn't just buy a major AAA game company to decrease the odds of that working.
by waveBidder 3y ago
Good thing Microsoft didn't just buy a major AAA game company to decrease the odds of that working.
- SXX 3y agoMicrosoft still releases majority of games for Windows. Sony buying them would be much larger problem.
- izacus 3y agoMany of Windows games block Steam Deck linux distro to "preserve experience" and "prevent cheating".
- lawn 3y agoAfaik this isn't true. What some games have is a particularly invasive anti-cheat that's not supported on Proton. But it's not targeting Steam Deck in particular, it's just a side-effect.
- izacus 3y agoWhat's not true? That games block open hardware with excuse of cheating prevention just like Microsoft blocks other hardware with same excuse on Xbox? That's trivially verifiable. For end user it makes no different whether it's a side effect or not.
- shkkmo 3y agoIf it is "trivially verifiable" then you should be able to provide examples. Some anti cheat tools, such as "Easy Anti Cheat" are supported on Steam Deck, some are not supported yet. Perhaps some will never be supported. AFAIK these later categories are generally due to anti cheat hooking into low level windows functionality that Proton doesn't support. You could argue this is "blocking open software" but that would be a stretch since this behavior is generally better described as a lack of support rather than explicit blocking None of it is due to game publishers including code that limits the hardware that windows runs on (blocking open hardware).
- COGlory 3y agoThere are games that will ban your account if they detect Proton. Destiny 2 comes to mind.
- shkkmo 3y agoI would grant that as an example of blocking open software, but since Destiny 2 can be run on windows on a steam deck, it doesn't seem to be an example of blocking open hardware (not that steam deck hardware is actually 'open'.)
- onli 3y agoSome games do or did specifically block proton. Roblox was one example. But it is some, not many, a usually widely critized exception. Linux and the steam deck specifically are not regularly specifaclly blocked - why would they do that? It just would limit their customer base and annoy actual customers. Tu put actual effort into earning less money would be crazy. The games that do not work either still use incompatible cheat detection, like you said, so we are talking only some multiplayer games. And the incompatible rest is just a technical accident that Proton will probably fix with time.