youngGoku,

Minecraft and Dota2 run on Linux :)

Honytawk,

Well, you can’t blame developers to not cater to their 1% player base. Especially since that group usually have the most problems and requires more development time.

youngGoku,

Is it really that much detached from macOS though? They can dist to Mac then Linux shouldn’t be much different, right?

thepiguy,

I mean, it is not a fault on Linux’s end. We have all the tools we need in the form of wine and dxvk, it’s the game which fails to work due to some obscure dependency or a mandatory rootkit. One great example is genshin- the game itself works flawlessly, but it has a rootkit which obviously does not work on Linux and you have to patch it out.

GenBlob,

If there’s a game that can’t run on Linux in the current year then that’s intentional and it’s not worth anyone’s money.

BaalInvoker,

Complex and recent games run on Linux these days.

Not allowing run a game in Linux is, nowadays, a choice from its developer rather then a causality. Proton is a really powerful tool!

If a game don’t run in Linux, via Proton or natively, that’s dev issue that actively blocked Linux.

Elderos,

It is almost always due to the anticheat programs.

BaalInvoker,

Still… There are anticheats that allow Linux, like EAC, Hyperion and many others… If they choose one that does not allow Linux, or choose one that allow Linux but block it, it’s a dev issue

Elderos,

Virtually no anticheat worked on Linux just a few years ago except maybe Valve and Blizzard in-house solutions. Games that are out and already committed to a specific anticheat can’t do much but to wait, so it is not really on them. Changing the anticheat solution mid-way on a released game would piss off so many people you can’t imagine. On a brand new game though, I would agree that this should be considered.

cooopsspace,

Blaming the Publishers and Devs because it’s actually pretty hard to fuck up a game so that it doesn’t work on proton these days

JasSmith,

Or do as I do.

  1. Buy game.
  2. Never play it.

I have a problem.

Hamartiogonic,
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Or as I do:

  1. Watch videos of Cyberpunk
  2. Think of buying it
  3. Realize I still haven’t finished Mass Effect
  4. Never actually buy Cyberpunk.

Currently I’m thinking of Baldur’s gate 3, but you know… I’ll probably get around to it in a few years.

PerogiBoi,
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You’re allowed to get another game even if you haven’t finished a previous one. You’re only here for like 80ish years so why not sample all that interests you?

Ricaz,

It’s not that great tbh. I spent maybe 6 hours in it and didn’t get hooked. With BG3 however, I’m at 60 hours and I can’t put it down

SSUPII,

One of the refunds reasons you can select is “the game doesn’t run on my PC”. This is completely valid.

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