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Exactly. Another lemming made a fantastic quip to this effect, claiming that consoles and windows are performing "SCP level containment" for the rest of us. Let them have CoD.

Yeah, but we know that Linux people would cheer and praise those games if Linux support was suddenly added

Yep. No way Activision's going to leave an addressable market as big as SteamOS is trying to be just sitting on the table. Especially if Valve puts some incentives behind it.

Indeed. I chalk it up to the power of narratives and emotions. These are emotional decisions by managers who don't know what they're doing but salivate at the opportunity to limit someone's access to something for not paying them or for using something differently than how they'd like to after paying. You know, stupid s**t like kernel level anti cheat and denuvo.

But if the cheats are at kernel level, how can any anti cheat compete without going full server authoritative?

Remember when Linux was about freedom? If the OS lets me delete root recursively, it can also let me play slop. It's not my mom.

The vast majority of their players are just addicts who fell victim to the predatory mechanisms.

I don't play Fortnite, but the only players I know are kids, and they just play it because that's what everyone else is playing and they want to play with their friends. I'm not excusing the company for monetizing the shit out of it, but (anecdotally) the players' behaviour just reminds me of me and my friends playing Dooms, UTs, or Quakes back in the day.

Let's not forget the whole Counter-Strike economy is based on gambling, which I think is also not good, especially because there's a lot of young kids picking that up and becoming gambling addicts, which I think is a net negative for people.

Edit: People make games did a deep dive on this, as did Coffeezilla did a series on the whole ecosystem.

That's the only thing I worry about personally, not the users so much, but the capitalists who see "opportunity" once Linux gains a hold, and start figuring out how to make it disgusting like everything else they touch with their greedy little slop mitts.

It won't be "Well, Linux doesn't permit anticheat", it will be

"Okay how do we create some centralized power structure that makes invasive DRM and anticheat that runs on Linux?"

And they'll move to colonize.

While I don't like these games either, I think it would be better for them to support Linux, so all users can enjoy the games they want.

I feel like the steam machine could actually change the trajectory of gaming. I mean look at the playstation 5. It was crazy overhyped, they don't have any games, pay to play online, the next one is around the corner. The xbox is somehow even worse. If the steam machine sells, linux is gonna see an insane push and the game developers have to sink or swim.

It's Activision-Blizzard. It's the same megacorporation

Lemmy users: no, it's everyone else who is out of touch

My friends that play CoD only really play CoD, a few are trying BF6. They never play any games with me because my games are uninteresting. My game selection of infinity minus 1 is considered uninteresting compared to their game selection of 1. You got the age all wrong though, they are 20 to 50.