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Don’t preorder. That’s all I have to add.
EA has created such a terrible reputation for itself. I like The Sims, but I learned long ago not to get any add-ons until after it's been out for a while and people have made reviews about them. There are some packs, like the High School Years pack, where persistent, unsolved bugs make key elements of the pack unplayable. That pack came out three years ago and still hasn't been fixed, and I'm not getting it until/unless those issues become resolved... which they probably never will be.
They still try to shove ads in your face multiple times on start up (and embedded a fucking shopping cart symbol to a menu that's visible during game play... which fucking pulses until you click on it.) Hey EA, if you want my money so bad, how about you fix your shit to make it worth my money? No amount of obnoxious ads will convince me to buy something unplayable.
Best thing to do with an EA game: Wait ~3 months after full release. It almost always gets discounted, it’s likely been patched probably twice, the gameservers have been patched, and the download servers aren’t mobbed.
Now you can actually enjoy the game without, “OmG iT’s UnPlaYaBlE!!1”
Nr. 1 top seller on steam. These are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
Too little too late EA. Go lay yourself down in the ditch where you laid all of my favorite gaming studios that you bought and murdered.
Agreed it's far to little too late. I've proudly avoided EA like the plague for a few years now and haven't missed out on anything worthwhile
Don't care unless they drop the kernel level anti cheat
I believe the rumour mill had this requiring the TPM secure boot.
This is what stopped a lot of users upgrading to windows 11 also.
I mean 2042 already requires Secure Boot sooo this is pretty much set in stone.
It does?
The free weekends never required it
They enabled it in one of the most recent updates. No idea why they would do that but they did.
i don't know if you've ever seen professional competitive fps gamers, but their aim and hearing can be insane. they're almost equivalent to an aimbot. They can react in a hundred milliseconds and then lock on a head to such an extent that it really does look like a lock-on. When the enemy moves very fast they can still predict enemy movement based on their player character's animation, keeping the lock-on. Flying enemies are at their mercy as well, because they fly in a predictable arc. They can perfectly counter weapon recoil patterns because they've trained on them. I know there's the valve approach of banning cheaters based on suspicious behavior, but at an extremely high level it's almost impossible to separate cheaters from extremely good players, especially if the cheating gets more subtle. I really do dislike kernel anticheat and I use linux myself, but there are reasons for it.
- Kernel level anti cheat doesn't stop this from happening. 2. Giving them this access is a violation of all of our privacy. It's completely unrestricted access to everything on your machine. 3. Devices exist and are becoming more popular, that sit outside of the users PC watching watching the gameplay and making adjustments on the fly to player input to counter things like recoil. 4. This makes this unplayable for Linux users and contributes to Microsofts forced update bullshit. If Microsoft cared about security they wouldn't allow this type of anti cheat. Plenty of BF games existed and functioned without this.
Kernel level anti cheat will not save you from cheaters. It only creates another vulnerability that opens us up to exploits and kills users privacy.
Even if you are okay with it, it doesn't work with linux.
i know, that's why i mentioned it. i don't mind losing out on games with kernel anticheat. if you really do want a big battlefield shooter, battlefield 4 is still an option. if you want something smaller then maybe you can try the finals, which also breaks free from the hero shooter genre a little. if you do want a hero shooter then marvel rivals also works on linux. i don't think you're missing out on a lot. maybe battle royale shooters? fortnite, pubg and cod warzone won't run on linux, but to some that's also a benefit.
Kernel level anticheat, so IDGAF.
Man, I ~~thought~~ bought unravel the other day for $5 on the steam sale. I didn't know it was going to a bitch to play on the steam deck. God damn. It's not playable on the deck because of the damn launcher. I need to switch to desktop mode to play it. It makes me sign in every single fucking and I'm getting sick of it. Fuck EA.
I have bf4 and steam takes care of the whole ea login, maybe it's your setting or something? That being said, EA killed all the other battlefield games on the deck with poorly thought out anti cheat, so ya, Fuck EA.
They really did the Linux gamer dirty.
They were also dog shit but that's the last money they get from me until Linux is supported.
Going forward, no tux, no bux
The only setting I changed is I enabled proton in compatibility. That's it.
Sure, at launch ;)
Even then, online-only and/or no bots = no buy from me.
This was my first thought too. Evil corp can always alter the deal further.
I can't wait to enjoy this change in 4-5 years when I pick up Battlefield 6 for $1.50 on a Steam sale.
Can we stop calling computer programs Apps?
How about progs
Sounds like a race from Starcraft or WH40K 😂😂
Why? It’s just short for application, which has been used to mean a computer program for decades.
Why?
It's dumb. These aren't mobile devices.
The term predates mobile devices by a long time. The only reason to limit the terms like this is for a non-techsavy audience which Lemmy isn't.
Thank god, if this upcoming beta isn't a technical mess, and actually fun, I didn't wanna buy it on their EA app.
wen tux
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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