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Re:Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and ... by rolph on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:08AM (#35888484)
it seems that running an anticheat is greater priority than a linux client

{{Even Wine support is difficult because of anti-cheat. As wonderful as it would be to allow Roblox under Wine, the number of users who would take advantage of that is minuscule compared with our other platforms, and it’s not worthwhile if it makes it easy for exploiters to cheat.}}

give cheaters a cheat server to cheat on, get harsh on cheating in the no cheat server, get rid of anticheat, loose its problems

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Re:Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and ... by esyir on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:33PM (#35889745)
>it seems that running an anticheat is greater priority than a linux client

Yes. Unless you have a better way of mitigating the cheaters, you'll find this to be the preferred choice by almost everyone. In this bubble, people are going to decry the loss of control. But in their market, the problem has gotten so bad, that not doing so would rapidly evaporate their entire product.

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