Marvel Game Developer Reverses Century-Long Bans on Linux, Mac Users (arstechnica.com)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/01/03/1929250/marvel-game-developer-reverses-century-long-bans-on-linux-mac-users
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/marvel-rivals-lifts-100-year-cheating-bans-on-mac-and-steam-deck-players/
The game's anti-cheat system had banned players until 2124 for using Proton and CrossOver software on Steam Deck and Apple devices. The company stated on Discord it "will not ban players who are playing fairly and without cheating" but has made no broader commitments regarding compatibility tools.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/marvel-rivals-lifts-100-year-cheating-bans-on-mac-and-steam-deck-players/
Harrison Bergeron (Score:1)
We've got to weigh down everyone else to keep them [1]equal [wikipedia.org] with Windows.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
100 year bans? (Score:2)
None of them have been around for 100 years.
(Marvel, Linux, or Mac)
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> None of them have been around for 100 years.
> (Marvel, Linux, or Mac)
But Apple has since the Garden of Eden; as proven by one wrong byte and the system crashed.
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They banned the players for 100 years, starting in 2024.
I misread that at first, too.
Revenue down? (Score:3)
Time to let people buy our product instead of blocking them from entering our store...
Would you go back? (Score:2)
I'm amazed anyone returns after a banning like that. Not enough to sue over and sweet fuck-all you can do - support is going to ignore you and assume you're guilty of whatever they banned you for.
Would you ever trust them with your money again?
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It's a F2P game, what money ?
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Eh, I can give them the benefit of the doubt here for making a mistake. It happened some years ago with Blizzard too; a handful of cheaters had figured out how to patch Wine to give them an advantage in World of Warcraft, which seemed to be how Blizzard management at the time discovered people were using Wine to play their games, and summarily banned the lot of them. After some degree of public outcry the bans were lifted except, allegedly, just the players who were actually cheating this way.
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At first glance I get what you're saying, but it's just a matter of how anti-cheat software is easier to circumvent in a Linux environment, apparently. Games like Black Ops or even Apex Legends recently on Steam announced when they stopped supporting Linux users the amount of cheaters found in any one game dropped dramatically. It's not that people who run Linux are all cheaters, but Linux is the platform best for cheaters to use. In competitive, PvP games this is a massive problem as at least half the lobb
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Well it makes some sense that it's easier to cheat on Linux, simply because Linux isn't intentionally designed to be actively user-hostile the way Windows is.
(Some parts of the Linux community, on the other hand...)
Re: I wonder if Microsoft paid for such bans (Score:2)
"Plus, if you can install Linux, I imagine you can dual boot with Windows if you really want to game. You're probably not a dummy =)"
But if he's not a dummy, he won't want to dual boot Windows.
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I think much of this is due to PvP. Ie, player-vs-player. If this was all single player games they wouldn't care. But with PvP games there are ALWAYS loud complains about cheaters. After all the primary rule of PvP is that if you win it was because you were the better skilled player, but if you lose it was because the other guy cheated. Players will be extremely upset if the network latency favors one location over another, so games often take care to balance things out or take into account latency.
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