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Grand Theft Auto V gets BattlEye anti-cheat, breaks online play on Steam Deck / Linux
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Breaking Linux support after-the-fact ought to be grounds for a full refund (no matter how much time or hours of play have passed). Valve ought to allow such refunds and forcibly debit Rockstar's Steam publisher account, whether Rockstar likes it or not.
Same thing happened for the whole Bioshock series. They rolled out the update just over 2 weeks after a big sale so it was beyond the standard refund policy too.
Rockstar doesn't officially support Linux though... So it's on valve that they certified it for steam deck. There's no grounds for charging that back to r*
I disagree. I bought a game for all the features it had at the time of buying it. There is no avenue for a consumer to push back against publishers changing that
While if you bought it, it should be source included and you should be able to host your own servers/pick any patch to play on
We don’t have those consumer protections because software is a relatively new thing
80 years isn't "new"
It really wasn’t a consumer constant in the 40s
You’ll have people in governments that remember a time without computers
You’ll have some that don’t understand buying is just renting because it wasn’t a thing
Even 30 years is pushing it as a widespread thing for home use 30 years ago would fall into the second group
I think my first notebook ran Windows 95 but I knew people that didn’t have computers
Well they are still selling in-game money without letting anyone know that they possibly cannot use it. But guess what rockstar, if I have to choose between your games and Linux, Linux wins every time. Later...
Who cares about Rockstar's opinion of "grounds?" Valve should simply do it anyway, and kick Rockstar off Steam entirely if it bitches about it.
That's a good way to lose a lawsuit, end up giving all the money back plus interest and punitive amts, potential damages, etc. Smort.
Since GTA is a money printing machine. i doubt they’d ever do that