EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum

Imagine being so insanely wealthy, you can afford to leave money on the table and shoot yourself in the foot at the same time. Disgusting.

It's EA, I'm surprised they're not making the minimum requirements Windows 11.

How dumb does one have to be to intentionally drop support for the hottest game console of the year?!

It boggles my mind.

Also, as a non-pirate (by laziness, not by conviction), I feel like I'm being offered an eye patch, a hook and a parrot every time I interact with a AAA game publisher.

Edit: I keep half expecting EA or Capcom to publish a press release outlining their favorite ways to obtain their games without paying, in order to work-around their own bullshit DRM. It's bizarre that they really think this crap is helping them.

I think they just got tired of everyone hating Blizzard and Sony, and decided to remind us all that we used to hate EA the most.
- I'm curious if they still have the most downvoted comment on Reddit.
  
  Edit: Yep.

as the saying goes: play EA games, win EA prizes

Steam should allow you to download older versions when companies pull bullshit like this.

Surely there isn’t that big of a cheating problem in a fucking rally driving video game, to the point where you need ring 0 anti cheat?

Regardless, this rise in invasive anti cheat is getting seriously annoying. I hope the right person gets pissed off and finds a way to make them run on Linux for the sake of the rest of the community, but even still, I’ll continue to play single player experiences and leave my mental health intact.

Every single version of DiRT Rally has MASSIVE cheating problems

Really spoiled the online stages
- Really spoiled the online stages
  
  And now this change spoils single player.
While neither EA nor Steam ever said anything about support for Linux or the Steam Deck (the store page stated unsupported), it's still a dick move inserting kernel level ~~antichrist~~ anticheat MONTHS after release, altering the deal and making the product a security and privacy nightmare!

Also a really bad business decision to scare future buyers away, with Linux gaming gaining traction thanks to Steam Deck and the likes.

I personally won't buy anything from EA going forward and stick to my statement from the games Steam forum:

Another reason to just wait before buying a game, especially from large corpo publishers like EA!
Releasing unfinished, buggy games for prices north of 60 bucks AND "altering the deal" MONTHS later, rendering the product either unplayable or making it a security and privacy nightmare, is a big, BIG pile of BS!

Don't let the FOMO get you, learn from this.
Make your voices heard and place an appropriate review!

And by all means: try to get a refund!

...or this WILL happen again!

I think it's hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like "ew no thanks"

I think it’s hilarious with the market for Linux handhelds this hot that these companies are still like “ew no thanks”

I don't think the technical details reach the people making the decisions. They may have heard "Steam Deck works with PC games" (because there is no distinction between PC and Windows for them) and then don't allocate resources for a proper port to Steam Deck.

Clearly EA weren't satisfied with only getting the "worst company in America" award twice.

Yet another proof that Proton is a great stop-gap solution but Valve should be pushing game publishers to make native Linux ports.

If a company isn't willing to support steam deck/Linux through an easier support option like proton, I highly doubt they'll be willing to support it with higher effort native ports.
- As a hardcore Linux fan, the only way I see game devs publishing native Linux ports is when when it has a >30% market share.
  
  But I'm pretty sure the publishers will still come up with excuses like "The Linux platform is uncontrollable; there is no way to verify the platform integrity because everyone has root"
- Valve isn't promoting native ports in the first place and suits only know "Works with Windows games, we don't need to care about details".
They would still want kernel level anti-cheat in that case.
We don't need native Linux ports. Valve already created Linux compatible DRM anti-cheat and I'd be surprised if they weren't pressuring publishers to use it at all.

I really don't know what more they can do, other than refusing to sell games that don't work on Linux, which would obviously hurt them very badly, considering that makes up ~2% of their customers.
The cost to maintain "native" ports is too high to make sense for most developers.

PS: Proton also makes it easier to preserve games since an "native" port would become incompatible overtime without work to adapt the software to changes in the system it's running.
- The cost to maintain “native” ports is too high to make sense for most developers.
  
  If that was the case, no console ports would exist, except maybe Xbox because Xbox uses modified Windows internally.
  
  Proton also makes it easier to preserve games since an “native” port would become incompatible overtime without work to adapt the software to changes in the system it’s running.
  
  Inform yourself what Steam Linux Runtime is before making such comments. You are 100% wrong.
- You are getting downvoted by people that have no idea how software development and maintence works.
  
  Every feature cost. More than most people realise. Both in development time and to maintain it over time and releases. It all adds up, not saying EA are correct in not supporting it. But to think it is free is just incorrect.
  
  They made a business decision to not support it. We think it is the wrong decision, but it is ultimately theirs to make.

People are still buying EA shit.

Good thing I was already de facto boycotting EA games. Not necessarily out of conviction, but because all of them are total shit and simply not worth my time anyway, especially compared to what else is on offer elsewhere. Haven't even started on BG3 yet.

I hate this game anyway. Codemasters was my favorite dev until EA bought them. Game stutters on high end PC hardware. Wouldn't even try on the Deck.

Cool, I won't buy shit from EA anyways.

The kind of people who like competitive video games -especially sports - are the same kind of jerkasses that used to bully actual fans of video games in the 80s-90s. So enjoy your busted-ass FIFA lol

WRC is a rally racing game.

And even if it weren't, this is a shit take.
- Truly
Meanwhile, esports gamers, being the biggest bunch of dorks on the planet.
Especiallyspecially in the 80's the "nerds and jocks" division was tangible. For jocks it was a social suicide to say they played video games or knew how to use a computer and nerds were beaten and bullied for being a member in the local computer club.

Jocks often had secret friendships with a nerd to play video games that they instantly denied if questioned.

So I understand where your hostility comes from, but still a little rough.

Here the setup broke down in the 90's when jocks started using computers to get to the early social medias, because nerds sisters were there. Sisters had taken interest what their nerd brothers were doing and saw the potential in chats and forums.