Linux players getting banned on Apex Legends again
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from sirsquid@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 22 Aug 2023 14:42
https://lemmy.ml/post/3713645
from sirsquid@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 22 Aug 2023 14:42
https://lemmy.ml/post/3713645
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
As a little PSA word of warning, it seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave or they’ve tweaked something in their anti-cheat that Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in for Apex Legends.
This issue happened back in late February into early March this year, with a mixture of mostly desktop Linux players with a few who played on Steam Deck getting banned from Apex Legends.
Various reports have begun appearing across Reddit and a fresh post on the EA Forum with users detailing their bans.
Apex Legends is currently Steam Deck Verified and their Easy Anti-Cheat is supposed to be supported on Linux, so hopefully the bans will once again be overturned.
When you play games with anti-cheat regardless of the support status on Steam Deck and desktop Linux, there’s always the chance even if you’re a legitimate player that you’ll somehow get caught up in a ban wave after doing nothing wrong.
They’ve also merged the original and new forum posts into one and the amount of people mentioning they’ve been banned continues to grow.
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Fuck EA. UwU
EA: notices ur OS
That’s rOSist… Have they indicated specifically which point of ToS was broken? Did they give any details?
It seems like there’s a glitch somewhere in their system that is causing these accounts to be inappropriately flagged. EA has enabled EAC support for Linux, so there’s no ToS reason why playing on Linux would get you banned. If they didn’t want Linux players, they could have just disabled the Linux version of EAC.
It’s possible they want to support Steam Deck without supporting the rest of linux desktop, which would just be… dumb. The Steam Deck, in Valve’s own words, is “just a PC” anyway.
Considering they unbanned
allmost of the linux users last time though, this is likely just another mistake.They unbanned most last time. There were still people who were never unbanned and were never told why.
The “why” is that it just isn’t worth EA’s time to fix the remaining accounts. The players don’t matter as long as they already paid for the game.
Apex Legends is free to play.
Well color me silly. In that case, no clue. EA gon’ EA I guess.
I got caught up in it. At this point I have no respect for the company. This was one of my favorite games to play but I refuse to touch any EA products anymore. I only hope they unban me so I can officially delete my account.
Edit: After going through 12 emails, with 6 consecutive different associates, In which 5/6 asked me for verification that I owned the account instead of actually progressing the case - I finally reached someone who helped. I submitted a request on the site and am waiting back to get confirmation my data was deleted.
The email chain went like this: Assistant 1: Requests verification code and asks if I want to exercise my right to be forgotten Me: (verifies and confirms) Assistant 2: Sends a disclaimer and asks me to confirm Me: (confirms) Assistant 3: Asks if it’s for this account, if there are any others. Me: (confirms) Assistant 4: Requests verification again and asks if I am trying to exercise my right to be forgotten. Me: (confirms) Assistant 5: Requests verification code and asks me if I have any mobile games. Me: (confirms and answers no) Assistant 6: Requests verification code again. Asks if I am exercising my right to be forgotten. Me: (says I’m not confirming any more and to delete my damn data according to the GDPR)
Right after that someone contacts me that they are looking into it. Eventually I get an email with a link to the help site that asks me to to confirm my email I follow through, request a deletion and it says to wait a couple days for a confirmation email.
I also receive another email from another associate shortly after (#7) asking me to confirm that I want to request my data is deleted.
A fuckin’ nightmare.
You can't delete your account if you're banned? Seems a bit iffy.
Shady to say the least. But as long as you have a single ban active, they keep you from deleting it
A GDPR request could accomplish that easily. They will obviously need to keep some amount of information so you just can’t make a new account.
Right now they’re giving me a run around for it so it hasn’t been so easy
How long ago did you contact them? If they haven’t done what you asked within 30 days*, you should report it to your country’s data protection agency. I also recommend that you inform EA that you are willing to do that, if they are not cooperating.
*In some cases they can extend the deadline a bit, but in general it’s 30 days.
It was yesterday but good to know that there can be at least a general timeline. I guess I’ll just have to put up with all the walls for now.
So just like Reddit does if I’m not mistaken ?
Send them the GDPR horror letter
Think I have any actual recourse to pressure them into deleting it? They won’t let you delete any account with an active ban
Source: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/do-we-always-have-delete-personal-data-if-person-asks_en
Well, I contacted them and used the GDPR as my reasoning. Let’s see if they comply or come up with another excuse.
It's also worth giving them the benefit of a doubt. It might be just a bug or an oversight.
I don't see how player data even would be worth risking GDPR fines. But at least you don't have to worry about it.
EA ruin my favorite gaming franchise: Battlefield
Or DICE did under the supervision of the geniuses over at EA.
Now I will never get to play another Battlefield game…
So yeah, it’s better to stay away from EA products.
Seems like EA doesn’t want to make games anymore. Folks should oblige them.
You have to admire EA’s strategy. They have the official chick game, The Sims. Then they’ve got all the sports games; pretty much any national or international sports ball league has a perpetual contract with them, and sports bros who play Madden or FIFA just…can’t understand not buying sports branded stuff. They’re more secure in their market than Gold Bond Foot Powder.
Exists projects similar to The sims that maybe can take the monopoly of this genre, just to show how absurd The Sims is: if you sum all stupid DLC and expansions you probably can buy all current consoles for that money. The problem is the sports games, like you said the perpetual contract just kill any competition.
Sounds like a decent candidate for an open source replacement project.
What do you mean “chick game” :(
Over 60% of players of The Sims are women aged 18-24. Only 48% of women in the United States will claim to have ever played a video game in their lives and only 6% call themselves a “gamer.” I can’t think of an original IP game franchise more successful than The Sims in terms of revenue or copies sold that can claim a female supermajority audience.
It is the official game of chicks.
I wonder what are the percentage of women of any age for The Sims, if it’s like 70% or 80% or higher lol
Bro, Apex Legends is a shit game. They're doing you a favor.
My friend and I tried playing it a few times, and the same thing would happen every time: we’d find nobody until its like 5ish groups remaining, and then get beamed before we knew where it came from. It’s probably a skill issue, same thing happened in Warzone except earlier in the game, but we ended up dropping it anyway. Never happens in any other game though.
The 2 worst things about the game are the lack of a replay feature and no bots in training mode. You never know how you died, can't observe what you did wrong, analyze your mistakes, nor train against anything remotely human. Only option is get mowed down repeatedly until you get better.
Amazingly rewarding
I remember playing it right when it came out and enjoying it, especially with the titanfall movement. I assume it’s changed for the worse?
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Stupid games like… playing on an officially supported platform?? Oh the horror! Who would do such a thing??
I think it was just a joke about how Apex Legends is a bad game.
Yeah, probably
It is still a downgrade of Titanfall.
True that! Titanfall to this day plays amazingly. I played Titanfall 2 on my Steam Deck a bunch and it’s so much fun.
Knowing Titanfall 3 died for this is heartbreaking
I saw Apex Legends as a “Works great on SteamDeck” yesterday.
Does it really work if I get banned for starting the game?
Technically game works great.
The admin, on the other hand… thats your problem.
Breaking: Shit company with shit games using shit strategies is treating their customers like shit. What a surprise.
EA was cool 30 years ago, but since then it turned into liquid shit.
If you can, please voice your concerns on Proton DB, Steam Community, the Steam Discord, anywhere you can. The terrible things these companies do must be known everywhere.