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What'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 t
by izacus 3y ago
What'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'.)