Bungie Rejects Steam Deck's Linux, Threatens To Ban Destiny 2 Players There
'The Verge: When will Bungie let Destiny 2 come to Valve's Steam Deck handheld gaming PC? It's looking like the answer is never -- because the soon-to-be Sony subsidiary has published a help page that not only says the game's unsupported, but outright threatens to ban prospective Steam Deck players (via Wario64). The help page has a new section titled "Steam Deck and Destiny 2," which reads: "Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton unless Windows is installed and running. Players who attempt to launch Destiny 2 on the Steam Deck through SteamOS or Proton will be unable to enter the game and will be returned to their game library after a short time. Players who attempt to bypass Destiny 2 incompatibility will be met with a game ban." To be fair, Bungie isn't the only one to reject the Steam Deck without necessarily providing a satisfying explanation -- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney explained to me why Fortnite won't get updated for the Steam Deck last month, even though Epic's own Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) claims game developers can enable it with "just a few clicks." And while both Apex Legends and Elden Ring now fully work on Deck despite using anti-cheat, it's also true that many other top multiplayer games have yet to fully arrive.' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/22/03/02/2153252 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 (office) +64 (7) 577-5304 (home office) https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 13:44:48 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'The Verge:
When will Bungie let Destiny 2 come to Valve's Steam Deck handheld gaming PC? It's looking like the answer is never -- because the soon-to-be Sony subsidiary has published a help page that not only says the game's unsupported, but outright threatens to ban prospective Steam Deck players (via Wario64).'
Some analysis of the reasons why some game makers, at least the bigger ones, are being so hostile to a Linux-based platform <https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/why-the-steam-deck-might-be-too-open-for-fortnite-and-destiny-2/>: When [CEO] Sweeney was pressed on why Epic wasn't interested in porting Fortnite, he said, "We don’t have confidence that we’d be able to combat cheating at scale under a wide array of kernel configurations, including custom ones." It seems that, on Windows, anti-cheat systems typically hook quite deeply into the kernel. Valve is not supporting this on its Linux-based platform (at least, not initially), recommending that game vendors use user-space hooks instead. And these may not be as effective as the vendors like. And even kernel-based hooks may not work all that well anyway.
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