> ...which the Linux wrappers (mostly the wine project) refuse to support for security reasons.

I mean, several of the major anticheats can be configured to work just fine on Linux. [0] It's up to the game dev whether or not it's permitted. So, yeah, unless the game is one where its dev makes huge blog posts about how "advanced" its anti-cheat is (like Valorant or the very latest CoD/Battlefield games) it's quite likely that multiplayer games will work just fine on Linux.

And if they don't, and the faulty game is a new purchase on Steam, then ask for a refund and tell them that the game doesn't work with your OS. Easy, peasy.

[0] I have 100% solid, personal knowledge that Easy Anti Cheat can work on Linux. On Linux, I play THE FINALS, Elden Ring, and a couple of other EAC-"protected" games without any troubles. I have perhaps-unreliable memories that at least one of the games I play uses Denuvo, which is only sometimes used as anti-cheat but does use many of the same techniques as kernel-mode anticheat.

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jsheard 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> I have 100% solid, personal knowledge that Easy Anti Cheat can work on Linux.

That's no secret, but the catch is that the Linux version is much, much easier to bypass. That's why some developers choose not to enable it, or in the case of Apex Legends, enabled it but later backtracked and disabled it again.

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Draiken 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> That's why some developers choose not to enable it

That's an excuse. It's mostly incompetence or more often than not the company doesn't think it's worth the effort. With more Linux users, the balance will eventually shift from "fuck them" to "we have to figure out a way".

	▲	johnnyanmac 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well yeah, it always comes down to money. Even on an indie level Linux support is a commitment. https://reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/e2ww5s/mike_rose_linux... Now if you do care about quality, having a committed, technical audience giving quality big reports is a godsend. But that's not where we are this decade rife with layoffs and rampant outsourcing in the industry.

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simoncion 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> ...but the catch is that the Linux version is much, much easier to bypass.

Shrug. Rumor has it that the Windows version is already fairly trivial to bypass.

	▲	dleslie 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, it absolutely is; if your product doesn't update its EAC bits regularly then it may as well not use EAC at all. Even still, there are known ways around it.