While previously you've been able to play League of Legends on Linux, and there's some pretty die-hard fans using Wine to play it, that's set to end soon with Vanguard being introduced.

This also applies to Valorant. I know a lot of people look down on both games, but it’s still unfortunate for Linux to lose access to such a popular game.

I thought this part was particularly interesting:

Half of anti-cheat is making sure the environment hasn’t been tampered with, and this is extremely hard on Linux by design. Any backdoors we leave open for it are ones [cheat] developers will immediately leverage for cheats

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      81·
      9 months ago

      To be fair, I think the backdoors they’re referring to would be ones meant to allow Linux users to play.

      But with Riot being owned by a Chinese company, I suspect there are plenty of backdoors to go around.

      • WalrusByte@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Yeah, you’re right. It just sounds kinda bad to call them “our backdoors”. It’s not inaccurate, but still sounds kinda sus

  • inlandempire@jlai.lu
    21·
    9 months ago

    Their post is a bunch of PR hidden by funnyspeak while not addressing people’s concerns in any way. The worst is that they’re officially ditching LoL on linux because reasons, they’re forcing the anti cheat on windows BUT they can’t implement it on MacOS because Apple won’t allow it

    • Kayn@dormi.zone
      1·
      8 months ago

      How are they ditching LoL on Linux if they’ve never officially supported it in the first place?

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      8 months ago

      Their post is a bunch of PR hidden by funnyspeak

      I disagree, I think they said pretty plainly that they rely on security by obscurity, which is fundamentally at odds with an open platform that gives you control over your hardware. They’re not wrong, they can take their shitty anti-cheat arms race and shove it.

  • RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml
    15·
    9 months ago

    I enjoyed playing TFT but this whole thing made me ditch LoL altogether some months ago. And cheaters on LoL are so rare…

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      According to the original Riot post, 1 in 15 games has a cheater, and in some regions it’s 1 in 5 games.

      But valorant has the same kernel anticheat, and has rampant cheating. So I don’t think the new anticheat will actually help.

      • RenardDesMers@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 months ago

        Depends also on their definition of cheater. If they count the mindless weak bots that keep playing just to farm currency in non ranked or if they only count serious cheats.

          • warm@kbin.earth
            7·
            9 months ago

            League just doesn’t have that many ‘traditional’ cheaters and the game lends itself to server-side AC way more than most. The cheaters in League are more often win-traders at high elos and smurfs in low elos. Also lots of feeding and trolling. So I have no idea why they are adding Vanguard, a good reason to stop playing the game though.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
    32·
    9 months ago

    No sweaty, angry, sexist, racist, sub-human filth League gamers on Linux? What a shame. How will Linux users ever recover knowing the trash will never leave the dumpster? I for one am completely devastated.

    /s