Surprisingly, Rockstar have now added BattlEye anti-cheat to Grand Theft Auto V / GTA Online, and sadly it seems they have not enabled the support for Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Valve's Proton. ARTICLE UPDATED.
  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    31·
    6 months ago

    While if you bought it, it should be source included and you should be able to host your own servers/pick any patch to play on

    We don’t have those consumer protections because software is a relatively new thing

    • ThatWeirdGuy1001
      2·
      6 months ago

      The first generation of software for early stored-program digital computers in the late 1940s

      80 years isn’t “new”

          • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
            1·
            6 months ago

            You’ll have people in governments that remember a time without computers

            You’ll have some that don’t understand buying is just renting because it wasn’t a thing

            Even 30 years is pushing it as a widespread thing for home use 30 years ago would fall into the second group