Say “go fuck yourself lul” into the mirror to save yourself some time.

This has been an age old battle. Some of them changed their mind, under the pressure of the steam deck, and some didn’t. Those who didn’t will probably never change it at this point, despite literal hundreds of thousands of forum threads, that are still not stopping.

Your first checkpoint should be here

I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I consider that in this scenario (as a Battlefield 2042 player) there are only three possible options:

1. The company kindly activates Proton/Wine support, but they don’t do it because they love their users, they do it because they realized that specifically the Steam Deck has a certain market share that they are losing.

2. Valve makes an agreement with those companies and with the anticheats and allows us gamers to play from Linux as if it was Windows but not bypassing the anticheat, but implementing some kind of anticheat also for Wine/Proton.

3. The one I consider most likely, we’re screwed and we’ll have to wait for some hacker (or experienced users) to figure out how the hell to make the anticheat think we’re in Windows when we’re really in Wine. It seems to me that this happens with some Wine prefixes that I have no idea make it possible to play LOL on Linux.

Maybe if we flooded them with such tickets, they would finally see that it might be worth considering?

I’ve worked in customer support and most of the time these type of tickets just get a copy pasted response basically saying thanks for your feedback, kindly go fuck yourself.

If you want something that could be reviewed I’d suggest contacting their legal department or even their HR department. The other option is to look for individual employees emails and socials and just message them.

I recommend not doing any of these things though, because it can be quite annoying to deal with these types of requests, as you will likely not be the first person to suggest this.

Send an email to the CEO, make a post on their forums, anything helps tbh. I disagree with other people saying nothing can be done, because the noise matters when lots of people do it.

There’s no standard way, since the standard methods tend to get ignored. But if you make a public thread or ticket, link it in this community and we can upvote it too!

Best just to boycott those games/companies and play/promote Linux-friendly games.

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Most big companies have feedback channels for customers on their websites.

What company are you talking about in particular?

This might not be what you wanna hear, but accounting for linux in game dev, especially in online games, comes with added costs. For most companies those added costs do not make financial sense, when the linux demographic is so incredibly small (1.63% on steam: https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/ )