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Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How much fucking harder/extra work is it to maintain a Linux version of something? God damn, I don't even really use Linux outside of servers and I still think it's bullshit how little support it gets because it's like a Catch 22. Nobody works on it because nobody uses it; but nobody uses it because nobody works on it! (For gaming, anyway)

It's amazing how much actual change this one piece of hardware has done to bolster Linux's share of things, but it's still also just kind of a drop in the bucket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ohh my god true, these companies are massive but man for a while many games are windows first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

One of the few ea games I played,what a shame ig my luck truly died down.
Edit after reading the article it's that same excuse, too muc hakers,dude isnt your game full of hackers wayy before linux users.(I wrote it like that to make fun of companies that say linux is a way for hackers)
But this is the time to quit all greedy companies.
Edit 2 this article is actually written poorly,it isn't a emulator it's a compatability layer.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone did the math on Twitter.

There is about 2900 Linux gamers playing Apex.

So even if 100% of Linux gamers cheated it could in no way be the majority.

What I think happened is the dev team struggled to solve the problem so they used Linux as a scapegoat when leadership came down on them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

This sounds likely. Unfortunately, when the problem doesn't go away a few months from now, it's not like they'll reenable Linux support...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

People still play Apex?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah me, I wanted it for a friend which we didn't end up play in the 3 year window it was supported.(or the window I started gaming on linux)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes* unfortunately. It's very popular.

I'll never understand why people enjoy P2W games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not P2W though, right? I thought they only sell cosmetics w/o competitive advantage (outside a mistake here and there), everything that actually impacts competitiveness is provided equally to everyone.

If that's not the case, could you link something that indicates that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You have to pay to unlock heroes, many of which can improve your performance once you find one that best matches your playstyle. I consider that P2W.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would say you are right, because all the playable legends are able to be bought with the free currency you can get by just playing the game.

I guess some people could make the argument that paying players have faster access to new legends and legendary finishers, etc. I would say this is more like "pay to skip some grinding" than "pay to win".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, if it's unlockable in a reasonable amount of time (say, 5-10 hours per hero), then it's basically the same as those stupid F2P mobile games where you can pay to "speed up time" or whatever. Or if there's a rapid churn where you lose access to heroes after some amount of time (i.e. even if you pay, they'd disappear).

But if you can grind for a few hours to get the hero you want, then yeah, not P2W.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Not people on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

This is really going to validate the anti-Steamdeck/anti-Linux gamers. It shouldn't.

"You can't play shitty MMO Battle Royale games if you're on a Linux PC!"

Fucking good. That's a feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

They're brainwashed chuds, it doesn't really matter what they think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Counter opinion:Atleast they will mostly play indie games, they are soo much better then these AAA games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Why is it a good thing that people can't enjoy the games they like on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

You need an internet break.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

It's also keeping people from even considering linux for gaming so I don't share your sentiment. Like it or not, these games are insanely popular. My gaming buddies won't even think of switching to linux until 100% of the games they play are working on it, and that include "shitty MMO Battle Royale" I'm sorry to say.

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