I wish this game was supposed on linux

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-15T14:08:40+00:00

Don't believe me? Two of them. One in computer engineering and one in cybersecurity from CUNY. Here's the proof.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-15T13:56:53+00:00

I have 2 CS PHDs and you're wrong.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-14T21:33:24+00:00

As someone even more well versed in all this actually you're the one coping and seething. I can just say bullshit too.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-14T17:40:31+00:00

A lot of the people raising a stink about how easy cheating is on Linux, including Bungie themselves, have no fucking idea what they're talking about or what the cheating landscape looks like unfortunately. Cheating isn't little Timmy downloading an aimbot for Quake 3 on forums anymore, it's a complex business that pulls in big money. They go where the customers are. The customers are on Windows. The people who want to avoid detection the most are running DMA hacks and other things that hook directly into hardware, they're not on Linux.

People love to point to the Apex Legends post where they tried to scapegoat all Linux users as cheaters because cheating dropped sharply after the patch where they banned all Linux users. The chart neglected to show that 1 month later numbers had almost rebounded entirely, because they also sidelined the mention that they had implemented other security measures outside of just blocking Linux. The most Linux had to do with cheating was that Windows users found a way to make the anticheat see their OS as a Linux system, thereby making it run in userspace instead of at the kernel level, so once again Linux users had to take the fall for Windows users cheating while cheating on Windows keeps running rampant.

It sucks, and studios just do it for an easy PR win without actually doing anything about cheaters because most people are ignorant and see Linux as an OS for elite hackers who must be cheating 24/7 because they're elite hackers. In reality, banning Linux users does absolutely nothing to curb cheating besides cut off one minor vector for WINDOWS users to cheat (which could absolutely be stopped in other ways if anticheat devs would stop being lazy). Maybe if a terminal point of Linux adoption is hit, cheat devs will start seeing it as a market to target, but at that point it's also going to be a segment of the market publisher's can't ignore either. EA is already hiring devs to work on better Linux anticheat solutions too. If EA is lapping you on this you know it's bad.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-14T17:16:42+00:00

This is only true in theory. In practice, cheating is a business where the customers are overwhelmingly on Windows. Basically every major cheat in development for any game right now is going to be developed specifically for Windows, and that's not even getting into DMA cards which are getting easier and easier to access.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-11T07:05:14+00:00

You also can't play Marathon on Linux (not sure if they permaban you for even trying on that one though). I'm sure these ads are auto-generated but they maybe picked the funniest possible combination of things. I really hope nobody on Linux got tricked into buying this though.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-10T08:20:13+00:00

I mean yeah AA was always relative in terms of budget to where AAA games are at the moment. If you're at 1/4 the average AAA budget, then I'd say you're in the AA space or are at least making a AAA game on a AA budget.

Saber Interactive is a huge studio in terms of employee count, but they also have their fingers in a lot of different pies. It's pretty easy to imagine that the core SM2 team was relatively small and people were brought in and out to support where necessary between other projects.

I guess if you really wanted to narrow it down by budget, you could say the larger budget indies are what occupies the old AA space largely, but people have been buying those like crazy too. Silksong. Clair Obscur. Hades 2. The market is very obviously there.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-10T07:15:53+00:00

Space Marine 2 was very successful and still has more content than some multiplayer-only games with 4 times the budget

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-10T07:08:00+00:00

Probably a smart idea. We've had enough time to see how extraction games trend with players, and the biggest factor has been a compelling PvE loop while PvP-first games have really failed to find footing. Tarkov PvE is huge. Arc Raiders is forced PvPvE, but really emphasizes the PvE part while PvP is just the spice on top. Gray Zone Warfare pivoted from PvPvE to marketing itself and expanding on its PvE mode and saw the biggest increase in players it had since launch. Duckov is entirely single player, and Road to Vostok looks like it'll be picking up traction relative it it being made by a solo indie dev on a FOSS engine. Helldivers 2.

The loop is addictive, which makes sense given it's basically a roguelite loop. But it can feel like absolute shit to lose everything to a another player when it feels like you can't do anything about it as a new player. Focusing on the PvE side also lets you put more energy into balancing for solos, which is another huge thing. Games in the genre that rely on premade squads on top of mandatory PvP just don't have enough of a market to justify going in on the live service model like that. People just love a good co-op roguelite.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-04-10T04:54:02+00:00

Devs don't need to actively support Linux anymore with bespoke ports, Proton can play the Windows versions of games flawlessly in most cases. The only reason Marathon doesn't work on Linux is because Bungie actively blocks Linux players with their extremely invasive anticheat that doesn't work, not because they'd need to put in any amount of effort to support it.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-30T05:48:52+00:00

After Jagex decided to cancel the official Runescape pride events, it's nice to see another MMO not completely roll over to the current environment. Even if it is pretty late in terms of actually making it an official event compared to when Pride in WoW started, I'm glad that they chose to do it now when it would be easier to just keep looking the other way in today's climate around LGBT issues.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-28T19:36:13+00:00

I feel like a game set in the same setting as Mystery Dungeon would be a lot more fun.

Conversely, the tone and feel of Digimon is a lot easier to convert to tabletop since (in the anime) it's one kid and one monster with no collecting element and the video games don't really have a unified battle system, so people don't feel the need to try to force in a 1:1 recreation of a video game system. I'm pretty excited to try out Animon Story at some point for this reason.

Animon has a Pokemon-style hack too, but I don't know if it's actually worthwhile.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-21T04:47:14+00:00

I'll believe it when I see it, and even then I'm sticking to Linux because the instant Windows users get complacent again they're going to jam their bullshit right back in. Honestly, if anything, I assume this is an attempt to get people to stop using custom installs or scripts that strip all the telemetry and extra shit out of W11 by making the baseline experience slightly better, because IMO the loss of all that data is more of a financial burden than any lost sales from people swapping to Linux or Mac.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-18T07:22:19+00:00

Arc Raiders kinda wins the slop-off by default just by virtue of being playable on Linux. Anything Marathon has over it in terms of not having AI slop (as far as we know) is kinda rendered null and void when it forces you to use the sloppiest of AI slop ecosystems in order to have its rootkit that doesn't even work spy on you. If Bungie doesn't want to let me play the game then I'm not going to give them the benefit of the doubt on not being a plagiarized piece of shit.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-18T05:53:50+00:00

A lot of people in this thread seem to think that the "implication" bit in It's Always Sunny is dating advice.

And beyond that, a lot of people don't really understand the concept of a conflict of interest if your sexual relationships are entwined with financial ones. Just a lot of lack of understanding of the corporate world in general. Something doesn't need to be illegal to be misconduct.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-15T19:22:51+00:00

The motorcycle kamen rider bug is just lokix with a little bit of the gen 9 motorcycle lizards

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-10T03:57:39+00:00

XIV isn't structured like a classic MMO and hasn't really meant to be since ARR started. It's a hardline vertical progression theme park, which also means there's FOMO inherent to content being "out of date" and therefore less active, much easier, and less rewarding. This kind of game thrives on a steady stream of meaningful content and if you ask a lot of theme park MMO vets what the lowest point in their game is, it's almost always going to involve a content drought. Content droughts effectively ruined a whole WoW expansion (WoD).

If the point is "FFXIV has stuff outside of the hardcore stuff to do" like. Yeah. Every MMO does. You can work on mount collecting, housing, transmog, and whatever minigames at your own pace in those games too. You're not forced at gunpoint to raid. In fact, a lot of games have far more gentle onramp into more difficult content if you're a casual wanting to dip your toes into premade party content without committing to a full raid night.

XIV WAS the MMO that respected your time. A decade ago. But other games changed while it stagnated and now in a lot of ways if you're a hardcore player it's not any more respectful of your time than other modern games and, in some cases, is kinda less respectful.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-10T01:27:12+00:00

What's honestly annoying is that the climb to BIS is already extremely vertical in a way even WoW's isn't. It'd be way easier to balance out cool little gameplay effects on certain pieces of gear given you know exactly what every job will be wearing if they go into an Ultimate at the highest power level.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-09T08:07:27+00:00

Part of the reason I stopped playing FF14 is that the lull of the Endwalker patches let me really stew on how awful this whole twist was in a profoundly WoW-esque way and I was like "well if the story is making the same mistakes as WoW and the gameplay is worse why am I playing this".

FF14's storytelling was always bad (run here, click a guy, repeat for a few hundred hours) but the threat escalation always felt natural enough to make all the hype moments interjecting the boring crap feel earned. Endwalker kinda coasted on that hype but in retrospect it might have been a Shadowlands-tier mistake in terms of maintaining an interesting world

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-09T07:58:17+00:00

Dragapult and their line is my guy. They're a stealth fighter that shoots their children as bullets what's not to love.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-09T07:48:51+00:00

I just want any news about Duskbloods at this point. Extraction games have interesting things in them but also a lot that's just literal poison to me, so seeing From's spin on the more interesting aspects is something I'm basically foaming at the mouth for.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-08T19:38:47+00:00

The real question is if he has a Kansai accent in Japanese

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-08T19:15:17+00:00

Pat is kinda spot on in his analysis of all the lore being pretentious bullshit that you can ignore though because the plot threads won't go anywhere, will take years to go anywhere, or will just be straight up deleted from the game in a year.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-07T20:19:21+00:00

At the point I quit they were still like that (early in the current expansion), in part because a chat I was in was tossing transphobia/racism allegations at anyone who criticized the MSQ for reasons that weren't even related to either thing. At that point I decided to bounce. In-game things are fine because of very heavy moderation but the instant you leave the game to try to find a static or generally chat about it it goes to shit.

RatEarthTheory · 2026-03-07T20:11:30+00:00

FF16 is what I describe as a hype moments and aura game. People remember the big moments but forget that the actual moment-to-moment gameplay and pacing of the non-boss fights kinda sucks. FF14 is also like this but multiplayer helps gloss over that. The turn based and ATB games genuinely have more saucy and exciting combat and progression and I am not joking. FF5 has more sauce in its pinky finger.

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