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EAC already supports Proton, albeit recently, [1] and BattlEye supports Linux and macOS natively already with Proton support in the pipeline [2].

It's not impossible, it's just up to Activision.

[1] https://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-la...

[2] https://twitter.com/thebattleye/status/1441477816311291906

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Except that dev has to opt-in which I'm pretty sure none of the major studios will do, supporting another platform for a very vocal population with a few users.

Activision make a killing from selling DLC & Season Passes from their games like Call of Duty. Not sure why they'd give up free money from a single toggle switch with no extra work.

Unless out of spite, like when Snapchat banned third-party clients for Windows Phone (like 6snap) and accounts using it (I'm still raging that my 'benbristow' username got banned and now I'm using 'benbristow1' because of that).

Fun fact: The guy that made 6snap (and other 6 prefixed apps like 6tin (Tinder)) (Rudy Huyn) was hired by Microsoft and is now one of the leads behind the updated Windows 11 Store app

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