With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux

Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by hombre_fatal on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:47PM (#25339401)

The problem with your idea is that nobody wants to play with cheaters.

Everything that makes the game fun is defeated by a single cheater.

So people are just going to choose between playing with 0 cheaters or go play a different game.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by waterhouse on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:54AM (#25344481)

Years ago I read about some game service that detected cheating and put cheaters into games with other cheaters. The author said it was pretty effective.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by drewzero1 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:30PM (#25363283)

Reminds me of Game Dev Tycoon's clever anti-piracy trick, where they released a "cracked" version of the game on file sharing sites shortly after launch. The "crack" disabled the copy protection but also changed the gameplay so that NPCs would pirate your products in-game and drive you out of (virtual) business.

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Re:With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work o... by adambyrtek on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:03PM (#25339543)

Good point, I haven't played games much since the late 90s and I'm returning to gaming only now (partially thanks to Proton), so my experience with multi-player is based mostly on modem or LAN parties with friends, where the social aspect helped to prevent cheating. I guess it's very different now when you can play with random people on the other side of the world.

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