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    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I was banned from The Finals for playing on Linux

    How is that not illegal?

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Well, civil rights lawyers have been pretty busy lately trying to stop the slide into facism, so they haven’t gotten around to making our choice of OS a protected class.

    Seriously though, why would it be illegal? It’s their game, so they get to be assholes and decide who gets to play it with them. I don’t think that’s ever going to change, and I’m not sure it should. We do the same thing in the Fediverse, deciding who gets to use the instances we control.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I would say claiming that a game supports a certain operating system and then banning players for playing it on the system is false advertising, especially if the game is paid.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    The game is listed as not supporting SteamOS (Arguably the most popular linux distro for gaming right now) and incorporating drm that does not work on Linux, this is far from false advertising as I can see it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073850/THE_FINALS/

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I know that's a turn-of-phrase but it's their game so they can do what they want.

    It probably trips some EAC flag because it realizes something is "amiss". Id guess going through proton might behave a little differently and they think you are cheating or installing hacked dlls or something so they ban.

    I know when other games have caught a wave of Linux users in bans they reverse them in time.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    If someone buys a product from you, you shouln’t be able to deny them from using it based on arbitrary criteria without a refund.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Don’t worry, they refunded his $0 for the free game.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

    Oh, it’s free? Then never mind.