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[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting point. I wonder if this person spent hours trying to get that kind of junk working without an understanding of the OS (Their comfort level was hinted at through the article)

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

As a Madden addict (not ultimate team, which is a cool idea ruined by monetization, just real teams head to head), I spent a bunch of time trying to jump through hoops to play it on Steam Deck. I went as far as installing windows to a microSD and trying to run it off that (because making it the actual OS or letting it touch my drive was unacceptable to me) before giving up.

I ended up refunding, but I can see the motivation and frustration if something you're really into doesn't work when it should. (The previous version didn't have anticheat and ran like a charm).

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ha. Been there, spending hours and hours trying to get some game working. I'm thankful it's been so much better in recent years. So much more painful a decade or so ago.

That said, I never had to work around anticheat stuff. That sounds tough.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I wasn't even trying to bypass it. I had a separate microsd I was going to run windows from just for Madden. But you don't have a lot of options when they don't think you've given them enough invasive access.

I did bend the knee and get it for PS5 eventually, so I guess they still won.

[–] Tau@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why does a madden game need anticheat though

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

There have been exploits. You could break the AI to get an insta-sack for a while.

I don't think anti-cheat helped with that though. The actual reason is ultimate team. They don't want anyone exploiting them instead of paying money.