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Re:Steam Machine by belthesar on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:53PM (#45906507)
"EAC supports Linux, but devs just won't turn it on" is the clickbait answer, but the details are more nuanced. EAC has multiple security levels that a title can set based on the threat model of the game, and most games with heavy MTX that use EAC shy away from it, largely because Fortnite doesn't do it. EAC is owned by Epic, and if Tim Sweeney says that you can't do MTX on Linux safely, then any AAA live services game with in-game MTX is going to shy away from it, regardless of how true the statement actually is.
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Re:Steam Machine by duskwuff on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @03:58PM (#45906564)
"MTX" as in, microtransactions?

What do microtransactions have to do with anticheat?

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Re:Steam Machine by sitzkrieg on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:30PM (#45907013)
granting clientside without paying, things like that
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Re:Steam Machine by tempest_ on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:03PM (#45908142)
You don't want someone having a skin that you are charging money for among other things.
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Re:Steam Machine by mindcrash on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:57PM (#45907363)
The Finals has mtx, is protected by EAC, and is playable on Steam Deck.

Throne and Liberty, which is also protected by EAC and has mtx, is also playable on Steam Deck.

So this is bullshit and it clearly shows it's the publisher's choice. What Sweeney thinks has nothing to do with it.

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Re:Steam Machine by agoodusername63 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:53PM (#45909501)
no it shows those guys are willing to take the risk and learn the water is fine.

most aren't

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Re:Steam Machine by fullstop on Thursday November 13, 2025 @11:39AM (#45917005)
> What Sweeney thinks has nothing to do with it.

I don't know if this is a fever dream or if it actually happened, but I seem to recall reading something about Tim Sweeney using Linux for a week to see how it compared. If he liked it, Epic Megagames would publish titles w/Linux support. He ended up complaining about some irrelevant things in KDevelop and it was pretty clear what his intentions were before even trying things.

I can't find any reference to this online, but I'm pretty sure that it happened. This would have been ~1998.

edit: It may have been Mark Rein?

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Re:Steam Machine by Cloudef on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:56AM (#45911238)
You are only safe if you run Tim's rootkit :)
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Re:Steam Machine by Rohansi on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:05PM (#45923039)
This. While EAC does support Linux it is nowhere near the level of protection of EAC on Windows.
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