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Got greeted with this message today. I've been playing Apex on linux for more than a year. Not sure if this could be related? Is this just me?

I've contested the ban and I'm currently waiting for a response from ea support.

UPDATE : Got an email response from EA today. It's basically a generic message saying that my account was associated with "cheating practices" and so they will not remove the ban.

This is absolutely fucking ridiculous! I've been playing this game since 2020 and have 3K+ hours on record, now this shit happens and there's no recourse ? Fuck this company.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure on ApeLegs but they have increasingly been disabling linux "support" for the Battlefields because of their anti-cheat.

I don't know how popular ApeLegs actually is. But for a lot of live games? Those are making MASSIVE bank and anything that can hurt the economy can kill the game. So a lot of studios actively just disable/block linux support because the added effort of making sure everything works in Proton is too big of a risk. Because nothing would increase Linux marketshare quite like free vdollars in Fortnite.

It really fucking sucks. But I find that many studios (like Digital Extremes) are really good about making it clear that even though they don't officially support Linux, they are very much fans of Proton (and Warframe has had a lot of bugfixes specifically FOR Proton support). Whereas EA has spent the past few months systematically disabling Linux "support" for every game they develop.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't know how popular ApeLegs actually is

~~13th~~ 7th most played game on Steam in the past 24 hours, and 13th at the moment https://steamdb.info/charts/