Steam Deck, Mac, and different Linux-based enjoyers of superhero shooter hit Marvel Rivals can as soon as once more play with out worry of being pulped beneath an unlawfully swung banhammer. Builders NetEase had just lately doled out bans of as much as 100 years to gamers they suspected of dishonest, however of their eagerness, failed to differentiate between official compatibility layers – the software program that non-Home windows working techniques, just like the Steam Deck’s SteamOS, use to run native Home windows video games – and precise hacks. Per IGN, NetEase have now apologised to the affected gamers, and lifted the bans.
“We sincerely apologize for this case and wish to guarantee you that we don’t and won’t ban gamers who’re taking part in pretty and with out dishonest,” NetEase’s Discord assertion reads, maybe not with the sort of wording I’d use if I’d simply banned gamers who’re taking part in pretty and with out dishonest. It continues: “Now we have recognized the precise causes behind these false bans and have compiled an inventory of affected gamers. Now we have lifted these bans and wish to specific our heartfelt apologies for the inconvenience this has brought on.”
Proof, there, that justice will be served by apologetic executives simply as successfully as vigilante supersoldiers and/or sentient bushes. I haven’t performed Marvel Rivals – Ed’s evaluate would have put me off even I hadn’t already had my fill of hero shooters – however I do observe that Valve have rated it Playable for the Steam Deck, so the variety of falsely condemned SteamOS gamers may have been substantial from that alone.
Proton, the precise compatibility layer that SteamOS integrates, does have some previous kind for triggering sure anti-cheat techniques, although within the Deck’s early days this was extra all the way down to a easy lack of software program compatibility relatively than real considerations over Proton’s potential dodginess. Nonetheless, the prospect of exposing video games to the untameable, open-source Linux nonetheless spooks some builders. Fortnite has by no means labored on SteamOS, for one, and Apex Legends just lately reduce help over potential dishonest considerations.
Truthful play to NetEase for refraining from such a heavy handed method, even for those who nonetheless cannot point out Winnie the Pooh in its chat.
