• lordnikon@lemmy.world
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    This is huge the fact the had to apologize shows the the we are getting to that point where Linux gaming can’t be ignored anymore.

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      I disagree and I think you’re undermining how cool it is of the marvel rival Devs specifically for caring about linux players. lots of other games are ignoring linux just fine (I miss gta Online so damn much), ultimately we are still at (last time I checked) like 4% max of the gaming share

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    Just saw the Ars Technica article on this, and it included this lovely section:

    As detailed in the r/macgaming subreddit and at r/SteamDeck, many players who successfully got Marvel Rivals working would receive a “Penalty Issued” notice, with a violation “detected” and bans issued until 2124. Should such a ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

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        As the glow of civilization fades to the last ember, a single player still stands, still plays, and he uses a linux distribution which name has been forgotten to time.

        It is the year of the linux desktop.

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      Should such a (100 year) ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

      Lol. Harsh, but fair.

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        I’m not the person you replied to.

        Netease is a Chinese company and some people don’t like that. They have also been known to make scummy, cash grab, micro transaction riddled games and are disliked for this.

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          It’s not that they’re a Chinese company in and of itself it’s simply that every Chinese company that has ever been involved in technology, see Eufy, always turns out to be a scam / privacy invasion nightmare.

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              You know all those IP cameras that no one ever encrypts, and you can easily find with a Google search, akso sometimes you can even control them. Well, that’s what your doorbell is.

              Given the fact that some people put cameras up in their bedrooms this is a major problem and almost certainly has led to blackmail, but we won’t find out about that obviously because you don’t admit that you’ve been blackmailed otherwise it defeats the purpose of paying them off.

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              Some found out that the camera feed isn’t e2e encrypted (eufy claimed they were) so you could see other people cameras

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                Tbh, I thought that was resolved. From what I can tell, it was. While a vulnerability like that is damning, it seems that they patched their web portal where the bug was and it was the end of it.

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                  AFTER it went viral, not when they got notified that there was a problem. Fuckups are to be expected, we’re all human… it’s how they’re handled that matters.

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                  That was their claim yeah, but think about it, If it was end-to-end encrypted they shouldn’t even have the unencrypted video to expose on the web. Where did they get that from? The whole thing should sit encrypted on their servers until you decide to watch it, they shouldn’t have any access to it.

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      Apex also did this a couple times, until they just disabled Linux support

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        Not really. EA sometimes made changes that broke Linux or Steam Deck support. It was Valve (and probably others to be fair) who fixed it couple of times.