A heads up: there's been reports of people being banned by EA and having EA claim their ban will stay, for playing Battlefield V with Wine + DXVK.
The post on the Lutris forum, has multiple people claiming the same thing. This wouldn't be the first time playing an online game with some form of Wine got people banned, as the same happened with Activision Blizzard and the game Overwatch although the majority of those bans were overturned. In this case, things might not go so well with EA already telling users they will not "remove this sanction from your account"—ouch.
Just another reason why I continue to fight for supported Linux releases. Support developers with your money that support the platform. Playing with Wine (and so Steam Play Proton too), is almost always not supported by the original developer and so they have no reason to actually do anything when problems like this arise. As much as it's a terrible situation, it's best to not play multiplayer titles (EA especially it seems) with Wine based solutions if they have anti-cheat systems in place.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
People should be thankful.
Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 3 January 2020 at 12:33 pm UTC
I don't like the current way that made multiplayer games, but its a shame that they are not able to detect properly if someone is cheating or not.
The next step is forcing to have x.y.z version installed with y.z hardware to be able to play. They should put a warning before buying a game like this.
https://consumerist.com/2012/04/congratulations-ea-you-are-the-worst-company-in-america-for-2012.html
They won again in 2013 btw. ;)
Guess i Will add One more brand to my hate list.
Quoting: jordicomawe don't have the slow downs, hangs, random crashes.Yep. No games , no problems.
Quoting: jordicomaauto reboots for the updates that the windows gamers has.Windows does not have such problems. The problem is on the chair in front of the monitor.
Using a Anti Cheat solution via a translationlayer, which can not be controlled by this Anti Cheat solution must lead to a ban.
That is the way this kind of software works.
One should never play Multiplayer games via Proton/Wine/DXVK, when it is not officially supported.
I use and like Proton - but only for singleplayer games.
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