Reminds me of the time Google decided that “Don’t be evil” wasn’t their vibe any more.

That sounds like it wouldn’t appeal to me as much.

I’m not particularly interested in ARC Raiders because I don’t like the chaos of FFA (or more than 2 teams in general).

I never played any of the earlier BF games, only One (Which I didn’t care for), 2042, and 6.

For what it’s worth, cheating in BF6 seems pretty rare. So, it seems that something they’re doing is having an effect at reducing cheating. There are probably other methods that they could use, though.

I’m guessing that their decision ultimately comes down to money - they probably figure that other methods would be more expensive to achieve the same result, and that the lost revenue from people who are turned off by the anti cheat is less than that cost.

I almost always am playing games with friends, so it depends on what they want to play as well. We generally rotate through different games at different times, and the choice depends on what we can find that everyone would enjoy. It can already be hard to do that sometimes, so removing more options could make it worse.

Battlefield 6 is one of the ones we have been playing recently, so that one would require Windows (at least as a dual boot option). It’s also hard to know what games might be the group preference in the future.

Regardless of how you see those things or what they actually do, it’s basically certain that the developers do not see them as malware. And I think it’s reasonable to assume good intentions in making those choices, because it is a PvP game where cheating can negatively impact other players. I would give them the benefit of the doubt regarding their intentions.

Many of the things that the Helldivers 2 devs have done could be excused with the benefit of the doubt as well, but they have stacked up a lot of broken promises, and recently there was a case of very blatant deception. It could be argued that it was not technically lying, but it was obviously intended to deceive. And there has been no apology for the deception since then, either.

Well, my choice of game is influenced a lot by what my friends want to play as well, and we tend to cycle through various games at different times. So I’d want to have the ability to play whatever they want to play. We have been playing Battlefield 6 a fair amount recently, so that one would require Windows.

Helldivers 2 works on Linux but we’ve basically retired that for now because of some scummy behavior by the devs. I have hopes that it will come back, but it has a bad taste for now.

Probably most of the other games we play would work (since most of them don’t have over the top anticheat). I haven’t checked all of them, though. It’s hard to know how often I would run across one that doesn’t work.

I expect that there would be some switching cost every time I switch OS (such as the time to reboot and/or the mental adjustment to the interface) and gaming is the majority of what I do on my PC.

So, I don’t think it would be worth it if I used Windows for all gaming still. But I would maybe consider using Linux for everything except for specifically games that require Windows.

I get it. I hate a lot of things about Windows, but switching to Linux would prevent me from playing some games that I would want to play, and that trade-off is not worth it to me.

Or is it motivation to die at the peak of your health?