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  • Because even when it’s supported, the people who tend to circumvent it find ways to do so on Linux, because it’s less secure. They choose instead to just not deal with it rather than trying to hire or build up that expertise, which would come at a high cost for little benefit.

    Personally, my problems with this type of game go beyond its anti cheat support, so enabling Linux support for their anti cheat still wouldn’t earn my sale anyway.


  • What part of it baffles you? I don’t like it either, but in order for them to get the same level of security on Linux that they do on Windows, they’d have to do all kinds of work embedding their anti cheat in the kernel. I don’t know if the license of the kernel even allows for that, but good luck getting Linux users to agree to knowingly installing a rootkit to play a video game.






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    5 days ago

    Well, yours is certainly one perspective that I don’t share. I’m sorry his post wasn’t polite enough for you, but I promise he is and will continue to be friends with all of these people afterward; it’s a small industry and only getting smaller.

    While several reviews are knocking the game for things that he and I find not only to be non problems but in fact solutions, I found value in him sharing that perspective coupled with a negative review detailing the opposite, which is why I put it here.


  • Grubb has no ill will toward his colleagues. But there are plenty of them praising games that he and I found disappointing for that sanding down, so I understand frustration when there are reviews knocking down a game for delivering what we feel games “ought to be” doing. You get short snark because it fits better in a character limit. If you want more nuanced opinions of his, they come in podcast form, not written form.


  • I understand that reviews are subjective. I just found it funny that the characters in the game were shouting the solution to the reviewer’s problems at him for so long that he found it frustrating.

    Jeff Grubb’s not-a-review was speaking to exactly the kind of thing that’s important to me in games and why he likes this one so much, which did me a great service, so I’m not sure why you’re shitting on him for spicy takes here, lol.


  • From Jeff Grubb:

    And also, to be kind of a shit, I think the complaints about being underleveled and not having the right gear, mostly come from games like these being streamlined to the point where they usually have no friction. The obstacles in this game aren’t just tolerable, they’re the main reason I love it.

    I definitely read a review where the reviewer was frustrated that he was underleveled and annoyed that his companions kept yelling at him to upgrade his gear, lol. But seriously, this sanding down of any sort of friction is something that has gotten to me with plenty of games in the past decade, so I appreciate someone laying it out plainly.


  • They lock up games under exclusivity contracts that others do not, which means you’re stuck with their launcher and all of its problems or lack of features. In this case, they’re the publisher, so it’s a bit murkier. They’ve also got strong ties to Tencent, so some people are cautious of the influence of the Chinese government. For me personally, it’s that they don’t support Linux at all, and unlike GOG, I can’t guarantee that they’ll never push an update that breaks that compatibility. Seeing as my platform is unsupported, I’m not entitled to any kind of make-good, so I’m just not going to spend any money with them. I’ll only play it at this point if it leaves Epic or if it’s one of their free giveaways.