This is stuff you only read on certain forums. Most people don't even notice DRM
Had I downloaded the warezed version, I wouldn't have needed: a- Steam, b- the Windows whatever login, c- the updates. Best experience goes to: pirated version. (Had I wanted the patches: pirates eventually release updated versions, too).
For the record, these days I do like Steam, though I far prefer GOG and DRM-free games (when I have the time to play games at all, that is. Which is almost never).
I buy all my games these days but there are people who do lots of thankless work and I'm not sure why.
Unfortunately Epic is notoriously Anti-Linux, from their CEO down. So the status of EAC under Linux is a giant question mark
And the reason anticheat did not works with wine is mostly because they use kernel modules, which you obviously can't run a windows kernel module on linux kernel.
If you run it in a VM, most of them will just fine with it.
(But the Battleye will give you a big "fxxk you")
It is quite telling that studios rather target ChromeOS or Android than any proper Linux distribution, the days of Loki are long gone.
Windows has a larger selection but its also incredibly trivial to pirate.
I've never bought more games than when I had no windows install at all.
Maybe it works better on Ubuntu.
Granted I've only worked in smaller studios - but anecdotally, OP is correct - game companies don't care about Linux users, high expense for such a small market share.
Just because they don't know what to blame, doesn't mean they don't notice it.
A prominent example is performance degradation with Denuvo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_DD-txK9_Q
I can give this a "me too" to an extant. I use to be like, "Rah rah! Down with DRM!" years ago, but at some point I kinda forgot that DRM even exists—it just no longer comes up in my lifestyle at all.
This thread is an example of this. I saw the thread title and was like, "Oh right...DRM and cracking games...right right right..." that is a thing that