The game doesn’t become inherently less enjoyable just because your system doesn’t meet the requirements to run it.

There is a big problem in having to change your worldview so that no longer being able to enjoy a game you wanted to experience becomes a non-issue.

Less cheaters?

I don’t know what you mean.

Sure, but from the end user perspective, it doesn’t matter whose fault it is - the result is you can’t play a game you otherwise just can in Windows. We know it’s their fault.

If you never play any games with anticheat that’s fine, but all it takes is one game, and then later another, and then later another, to make Linux a dealbreaker for many gamers. These are not unpopular games.

It can be the whole difference between someone sticking with Windows but itching to make the switch, and someone actually making the switch.

What good is 90% of games working if you have 3 games that you really want to play that don’t work?

Had a quick look into this, this is the best related info I could find on the situation with Rust.

But what percentage of games that use anticheat?

Does Bazzite let you play games that use anticheat?

https://areweanticheatyet.com/

Switching to linux means you can’t play 60% of games that use anticheat.

Doesn’t it work?

I have a block button on mine, but I have no idea who this person is.

https://xkcd.com/927/

I feel like demos have become longer recently than they used to be. It used to be that you could only get through the equivalent of a level or two, now it’s more like they last up to 2 hours - the same period you might play and steam refund a game to demo it that way.

Seems like a very healthy development in gaming.

Didn’t age verification - also recently implemented - cause youtube views to drop?

Here’s a case of it very well explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDPUzfwa4u0

I often wonder how ads of any kind have ever worked, unless it was an ad for something we had already planned on buying.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/