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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The Finals works on Linux!

In other news, I got a message saying I was banned from The Finals for playing on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's gotta be rectifiable somehow. Did you contact some sort of support?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It said I could reach out to support but I was hopping off and it didn't give me any links or anything actionable in the message. So I guess I can go hunt down the support info and complain.

If I don't get unbanned, oh well. I guess I won't play that game anymore. Its not like I spent any money on it and my time invested in about an hour at this point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That ban also pop up on your steam account? Because if it does that can screw you in other games if they have community servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Anti cheat and Linux is why I can't use Linux. I already have 2 games impossible to play on Linux.

BDO,EFT FYI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was banned from The Finals for playing on Linux

How is that not illegal?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, civil rights lawyers have been pretty busy lately trying to stop the slide into facism, so they haven’t gotten around to making our choice of OS a protected class.

Seriously though, why would it be illegal? It’s their game, so they get to be assholes and decide who gets to play it with them. I don’t think that’s ever going to change, and I’m not sure it should. We do the same thing in the Fediverse, deciding who gets to use the instances we control.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would say claiming that a game supports a certain operating system and then banning players for playing it on the system is false advertising, especially if the game is paid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The game is listed as not supporting SteamOS (Arguably the most popular linux distro for gaming right now) and incorporating drm that does not work on Linux, this is far from false advertising as I can see it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073850/THE_FINALS/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know that's a turn-of-phrase but it's their game so they can do what they want.

It probably trips some EAC flag because it realizes something is "amiss". Id guess going through proton might behave a little differently and they think you are cheating or installing hacked dlls or something so they ban.

I know when other games have caught a wave of Linux users in bans they reverse them in time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If someone buys a product from you, you shouln’t be able to deny them from using it based on arbitrary criteria without a refund.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don’t worry, they refunded his $0 for the free game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, it’s free? Then never mind.