Yes. And no one should play EA games, because that supports such behaviour. They're all shit anyway.

Microsoft is gonna close off access to their NT kernel, eventually. When that happenes all anticheat will have to be in userspace. I'd imagine at that point all of those games become Linux compatible.

Fingers crossed m$ takes that option away as they're threatening they might after the crowdstrike debacle.

Even if it doesn't happen, all is not lost. Apex Legends for example, does in fact work in proton, meaning Respawn debilarately enabled proton support in their EAC config.

Battlefield meanwhile, is a complete shit-show I hear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/yNiqKWQZxO

"Hey there. I'm the Community Manager for Armchair Developers. While we continue to establish a baseline for Maxima's functionality and presentability the repo will remain private. The road is long and we are just at the beginning of it. We will have more to share about Maxima next year."

There's some value in having open-source clients to proprietary services. Of course ideally one would avoid using them, but since many are stuck with games they already purchased and the launcher was bolted on later in an update, it makes sense.

At the very least it probably doesn't implement a lot of the telemetry, and it doesn't require you to figure out how to make the launcher work under Proton, only the game.

Less proprietary is better than nothing.

@pastermil @mr_MADAFAKA It's the opposite: because there is a proprietary service we need an open source access to it.