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Re:Wine 4.0 released by Raymonf on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:47PM (#18974558)
It must have to do with the lack of profitability, especially after developing an anti-cheat solution.

I'm not 100% certain if EasyAntiCheat supports Wine at all, or even Linux at all, but that's what they (Epic Games) use. If not, they'd have to write an in-house solution that probably won't work.

In the past (again, I'm not sure about the present), CS:GO was victim to having a Linux client; rather, people figured out that it was much more vulnerable to exploits due to it not having a working anti-cheat solution.

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Re:Wine 4.0 released by Nullabillity on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:06AM (#18976542)
> I'm not 100% certain if EasyAntiCheat supports Wine at all, or even Linux at all, but that's what they (Epic Games) use.

It does. EAC detects Wine, and can load a Wine version if the developers enable it. There have also been a few cases where they enabled it upon player requests (without dev involvement).

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Re:Wine 4.0 released by raptorfactor on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:01AM (#18976519)
EasyAntiCheat and BattlEye rely on kernel drivers, which WINE has no support for.
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