Battlefield 1 gets EA anticheat in September - will be left broken on Steam Deck / Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago

I think Valve should prohibit the addition of mandatory invasive 3rd party software after a limited window at launch. Unless they want to offer refunds and forfeit Steam's cut I guess.

It's absolute horseshit that publishers can add all sorts of garbage years later that was in no way agreed to at the time of purchase.

Edit: I guess in this case it's not really 3rd party since it's EA's shit software, but the general point stands.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah automatic opt out refunds. Like if I want to keep it anyways I should be able to, but I should just by default get money back if my gaming knowingly broke on me.

Fall guys comes to mind, I bought 3 times because i was having fun and wanted to share with friends, then they broke the game on me. Bait and switch

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I wish the loss of players would hurt them but I’m sure they’ve gathered it isn’t enough to worry about.

[-] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Well, looks like I'm picking up a new hobby then.

Boating sounds fun!

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