As a little PSA word of warning, it seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave or they've tweaked something in their anti-cheat that Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in for Apex Legends.
        • lud@lemm.ee
          2·
          10 months ago

          A GDPR request could accomplish that easily. They will obviously need to keep some amount of information so you just can’t make a new account.

            • lud@lemm.ee
              3·
              10 months ago

              How long ago did you contact them? If they haven’t done what you asked within 30 days*, you should report it to your country’s data protection agency. I also recommend that you inform EA that you are willing to do that, if they are not cooperating.

              *In some cases they can extend the deadline a bit, but in general it’s 30 days.

    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu
      10·
      10 months ago

      EA ruin my favorite gaming franchise: Battlefield

      Or DICE did under the supervision of the geniuses over at EA.

      Now I will never get to play another Battlefield game…

      So yeah, it’s better to stay away from EA products.

  • 30p87@feddit.de
    733·
    10 months ago

    Breaking: Shit company with shit games using shit strategies is treating their customers like shit. What a surprise.

    • mihor
      82·
      10 months ago

      EA was cool 30 years ago, but since then it turned into liquid shit.

    • cynetri (he/any)@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      10 months ago

      My friend and I tried playing it a few times, and the same thing would happen every time: we’d find nobody until its like 5ish groups remaining, and then get beamed before we knew where it came from. It’s probably a skill issue, same thing happened in Warzone except earlier in the game, but we ended up dropping it anyway. Never happens in any other game though.

      • elouboub@kbin.social
        14·
        10 months ago

        The 2 worst things about the game are the lack of a replay feature and no bots in training mode. You never know how you died, can’t observe what you did wrong, analyze your mistakes, nor train against anything remotely human. Only option is get mowed down repeatedly until you get better.

        Amazingly rewarding

    • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I remember playing it right when it came out and enjoying it, especially with the titanfall movement. I assume it’s changed for the worse?

    • Dubious_FartEnglish
      28·
      10 months ago

      Technically game works great.

      The admin, on the other hand… thats your problem.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    352·
    10 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    As a little PSA word of warning, it seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave or they’ve tweaked something in their anti-cheat that Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in for Apex Legends.

    This issue happened back in late February into early March this year, with a mixture of mostly desktop Linux players with a few who played on Steam Deck getting banned from Apex Legends.

    Various reports have begun appearing across Reddit and a fresh post on the EA Forum with users detailing their bans.

    Apex Legends is currently Steam Deck Verified and their Easy Anti-Cheat is supposed to be supported on Linux, so hopefully the bans will once again be overturned.

    When you play games with anti-cheat regardless of the support status on Steam Deck and desktop Linux, there’s always the chance even if you’re a legitimate player that you’ll somehow get caught up in a ban wave after doing nothing wrong.

    They’ve also merged the original and new forum posts into one and the amount of people mentioning they’ve been banned continues to grow.

    The original article contains 486 words, the summary contains 182 words. Saved 63%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • Kaito@lemmy.world
    30·
    10 months ago

    If you can, please voice your concerns on Proton DB, Steam Community, the Steam Discord, anywhere you can. The terrible things these companies do must be known everywhere.

  • Millie@lemm.eeEnglish
    251·
    10 months ago

    Seems like EA doesn’t want to make games anymore. Folks should oblige them.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      10 months ago

      You have to admire EA’s strategy. They have the official chick game, The Sims. Then they’ve got all the sports games; pretty much any national or international sports ball league has a perpetual contract with them, and sports bros who play Madden or FIFA just…can’t understand not buying sports branded stuff. They’re more secure in their market than Gold Bond Foot Powder.

      • ZeroHoraEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Exists projects similar to The sims that maybe can take the monopoly of this genre, just to show how absurd The Sims is: if you sum all stupid DLC and expansions you probably can buy all current consoles for that money. The problem is the sports games, like you said the perpetual contract just kill any competition.

        • Millie@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          Sounds like a decent candidate for an open source replacement project.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          10 months ago

          Over 60% of players of The Sims are women aged 18-24. Only 48% of women in the United States will claim to have ever played a video game in their lives and only 6% call themselves a “gamer.” I can’t think of an original IP game franchise more successful than The Sims in terms of revenue or copies sold that can claim a female supermajority audience.

          It is the official game of chicks.

          • ipkpjersi
            2·
            10 months ago

            I wonder what are the percentage of women of any age for The Sims, if it’s like 70% or 80% or higher lol

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    262·
    10 months ago

    That’s rOSist… Have they indicated specifically which point of ToS was broken? Did they give any details?

    • moody@lemmings.world
      14·
      10 months ago

      It seems like there’s a glitch somewhere in their system that is causing these accounts to be inappropriately flagged. EA has enabled EAC support for Linux, so there’s no ToS reason why playing on Linux would get you banned. If they didn’t want Linux players, they could have just disabled the Linux version of EAC.

      • sp6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        It’s possible they want to support Steam Deck without supporting the rest of linux desktop, which would just be… dumb. The Steam Deck, in Valve’s own words, is “just a PC” anyway.

        Considering they unbanned all most of the linux users last time though, this is likely just another mistake.