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Just to clarify, Capcom is not intentionally breaking Linux/proton/steam deck compatibility.

They've been updating older games with new anti cheat for a couple weeks and a few of them have been broken on Linux but it is just a lack of testing or incompetence, not maliciousness towards Linux gaming.

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They've been updating single player games with new DRM. Maybe it's not malice towards Linux users specifically, but I'd call it malice towards their customer base.

Which games are those? At least with Rise it has coop multiplayer.

https://www.monsterhunter.com/rise/us/multiplayer/

Isn’t the cat already out of the bag? If someone was inclined to crack the game, surely that work had already been done with the first release.

> They've been updating older games with new anti cheat for a couple weeks

Anti-cheat, or DRM? They're not the same thing.

What's the difference? To me, DRM is about controlling what the user can do with your software, and anti-cheat seems to match that description.

Anti-cheat serves a useful purpose for customers. Cheating is a real problem that can destroy online games and ruin fun for a game's customers. While anti-cheat can introduce its own problems, it does have real benefits for users.

DRM has no benefit for legitimate users, it can only harm them.

> Anti-cheat serves a useful purpose for customers.

Not in single‐player games it doesn’t.

I mean sure, there's bad ways to deploy anticheat software. That doesn't mean it's the same as DRM.

Given that product keys and activation servers are forms of DRM and not anti-cheat.

I'd say that anti-cheat is effectively a subset of DRM, as it prevents unauthorized changes to the binary, typically.

Honestly, that's worse. If it were deliberate there would be some feet somewhere that could be held to the fire. In the case of incompetence, everyone just shrugs their shoulders and deals with it.

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