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Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Re: Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Post by john_strinlai »

tempfile wrote: post #9
thrownawaysz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they are not selling the game for Linux. Only for Windows. It's another story that it works because of Proton but technically they don't support the platform at all. https://store.steampowered.com/app/304390/FOR_HONOR/ https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/for-honor/article/system-...

So they should have to return the money you paid, to account for their mistake in selling you the game.

>account for their mistake in selling you the game.

i hate ubisoft as much as the next person, but if they listed the game as only supporting windows when it launched, and someone bought it for linux despite it not being supported, ubisoft did not make a "mistake" in selling the game to them. the buyer made a decision to purchase the game for an unsupported system.

(the rule i follow, which hasn't gone wrong yet, is to avoid all ubisoft games like the plague)

edit: am i missing something here? those disagreeing, please let me know why you believe you deserve a refund in this situation, knowing that ubisoft only advertised support for windows.

Re: Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Post by stackghost »

Insanity wrote: post #14

I recently moved to Linux for gaming. Last time I tried was around 2008 and I guess I was reluctant to move gaming to Linux because that experience was far from smooth. Honestly, it's like magic that I can run "The Finals" on highest settings without any hiccup. It literally 'just works'. Happy that I could completely get rid of Windows (it was only there for gaming). It's still hard to believe, given back in 2008 wh…

Which distro are you using? I'm currently on bazzite and it's merely an okay experience.

Re: Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Post by Hamuko »

AlexandrB wrote: post #4
vsviridov wrote: post #3

When you though Ubisoft can't get any worse...

I've gotten very comfortable not owning Ubisoft games[1]. [1] https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-exec-says-gamers-need-t...

Apparently so have other gamers considering that Ubisoft's stock price has fallen over 90% in the last five years.

Re: Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Post by mysteria »

Wouldn't it be possible to have two tiers of servers here? Like have one that's accessible to everyone with a possibly increased risk of cheating and one restricted to Windows users.

I remember in the old days some games had optional anticheat and there were servers with and without it.

Re: Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Post by john_strinlai »

mysteria wrote: post #26

Wouldn't it be possible to have two tiers of servers here? Like have one that's accessible to everyone with a possibly increased risk of cheating and one restricted to Windows users. I remember in the old days some games had optional anticheat and there were servers with and without it.

of course that would be possible, but i can't see ubisoft opting into that.

it'd be an additional expense for a very small % of the player base of a 9 year old game.

Re: Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10

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Post by bogwog »

unpopularopp wrote: post #15

That's the caveat of Proton. Running games on unsupported platforms they are not meant for. And if it doesn't work who's fault that? Valve? The dev? No one because it's open source so fix your own? Honestly Valve should have a stricter warning if a game is Windows only

The situation here isn't that the game doesn't work. It does work, it's just the Ubisoft isn't happy with the quality of Easy Anti Cheat's (their third party anti cheat provider) Linux offering.

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Post by cheschire »

foxyv wrote: post #11

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Ubisoft didn’t make either iteration of MW2. That was activision.

But a year after that bullshit, then Ubisoft started pushing the always-online requirement for even single player games like assassins creed. Maybe you were thinking of that?

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