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Apex Legends is, yet again, falsely banning linux players (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by sp6@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3398415

This was a big issue ~5 months ago, and they ended up unbanning all of the linux players (I know reddit sucks, I'm sorry, but it's currently the best source of info I could find): https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/11gaefo/ea_is_falsely_massbanning_steam_deck_and_linux/

However, three reports from this morning (including myself) just rolled in, as well as a few others from the past month (check recent replies): https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Linux-players-getting-banned/td-p/12338557

One of the banned players from this morning was also banned (then unbanned) when this was an issue 4-5 months ago.

More recent reddit posts about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/15uqt7w/linux_users_getting_falsely_banned_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/15ur654/apex_legends_linux_users_getting_falsely_banned/

Valve's github issues: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/4350#issuecomment-1684189384

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[–] Water@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Falsely banning" makes it sound like they are doing it intentionally when in reality it's just a bug.

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How would you have phrased it? I figured if I left "falsely" out, it would come off like the bans were intentional. But to be fair, I guess we don't know if it's intentional or a bug yet... but I imagine, and hope, it's a bug.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

'Accidentally'?

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[–] sp6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gaming on Linux now has an article about this: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-players-getting-banned-on-apex-legends-again/

We're up to 12 linux users banned in the past ~day