Ignoring one smaller market while gleefully supporting another, Epic Games have announced they're getting Fortnite along with Epic Online Services Anti-Cheat on Windows Arm.
There are so many variations/forks/distros of Linux that it is basically impossible to control the gameplay experience (prevent cheating) in a way that Epic want to. At least that’s what they say.
Honestly, that’s a pretty idiotic point. Going by that logic, it would also mean that cheating itself would be hard, since not every cheat/hack would work on every system.
Honestly, the main system they would need to work with is the Proton environment. And even games that don’t have a native runtime have no problems with more hackers.
It’s the same reason why some developers only allow the Steam deck to run their game: they think all Linux users are hackers and would either put pirated copies of their game in the internet or cheat in their games with ease.
There are so many variations/forks/distros of Linux that it is basically impossible to control the gameplay experience (prevent cheating) in a way that Epic want to. At least that’s what they say.
Honestly, that’s a pretty idiotic point. Going by that logic, it would also mean that cheating itself would be hard, since not every cheat/hack would work on every system.
Honestly, the main system they would need to work with is the Proton environment. And even games that don’t have a native runtime have no problems with more hackers.
It’s the same reason why some developers only allow the Steam deck to run their game: they think all Linux users are hackers and would either put pirated copies of their game in the internet or cheat in their games with ease.