Wine Launcher 404

[Bows]

First forum post just to let SE know that another Linux user, and subscriber, is chiming in just wanting to play the game.

Help a Lala out!!

[Raaben]

Another Linux user here, game works fine expect for this launcher issue that was introduced. Please consider a fix for this; 99% of the game can be fixed when new things pop up, but apparently the launcher is now ignoring the browser type flag that lets us log in.

My question is I already pre-ordered Shadowbringers and was only in the first month of my 6 month subscription. If this makes the game unplayable for me, does that mean that Square cancelled my contract on THEIR end by this action, does that mean Square legally owes me $100 - $40 for pre-order, $60 for unused subscription 5 months @ $12/mo prorated?

No, they are not responsible for running this on an unsupported system. Let's not get started with baseless threats; that's a sure way to get ignored instead.

[junmoxiao]

Linux is not a supported system, so they are not responsible or obligated to do anything for us. But given that there are so many people playing on Linux, and that the community mostly does its own troubleshooting and bugfixing whenever possible, it would be a nice gesture on their part to help in a situation like this.

[AruTheUnicorn]

Another Linux user here, game works fine expect for this launcher issue that was introduced. Please consider a fix for this; 99% of the game can be fixed when new things pop up, but apparently the launcher is now ignoring the browser type flag that lets us log in.



No, they are not responsible for running this on an unsupported system. Let's not get started with baseless threats; that's a sure way to get ignored instead.

I am guessing Square thinks the Linux community is full of idoits

Got this from https://frontier.ffxiv.com/version_4_0_win/index.html , still poking around the code base....But this is very interesting...


// ユーザーエージェント
userAgent: {
name: "",// JSP,header.htmlにて代入
Type: {
WIN: "windows",
PS4: "playstation 4",
PS3: "playstation 3",
MAC: "mac"
},

is: function(type) {
return Browser.userAgent.name === type;
}
},

Hmmm, this is interesting....Wonder how much weight this is going to have if I fake my headers to look like a Windows box. If the Login displays.

[Alchemist00]

Also having this problem, hope it's an oversight and not a malicious update...

[Raaben]

Also having this problem, hope it's an oversight and not a malicious update...

It's more than likely. They're not coding this with non-Windows platforms in mind, so things like this can easily happen.

[Winterblack]

I've canceled my subscription and asked for a refund of my Shadowbringers pre-order under the assumption that I will not be able to experience that content. I'll happily let them have my money again if and when it's fixed.

SE can say they don't support Linux all they want, but the economics are simple. If I ain't playing, I ain't paying.

[newtype_]

Same issue w/ Wine. Annoying that the game runs flawlessly but the launcher is always the problem.

[AruTheUnicorn]

I've canceled my subscription and asked for a refund of my Shadowbringers pre-order under the assumption that I will not be able to experience that content. I'll happily let them have my money again if and when it's fixed.

SE can say they don't support Linux all they want, but the economics are simple. If I ain't playing, I ain't paying.

Sounds like that might be the best approach. I been talking with a number of folks on the GitHub Proton project. It seems LibCEF.DLL is not loading which is very much in Square Enix's code base. Somehow they are seeing it on a Non-Mac *nix system and they have a switch or if statement denying the LibCEF.DLL to load. Some of us believe that Square might be playing a "Hate" card on the Linux and Steam Community. So the best way of answering this...Lawyers and cutting the milk off to this Baby Trump wannabe. If they want to play like this, got another boycotting solution....Request Gabe kicks Square Enix off his platform, but this is not going to be fixed anytime soon. This is not a buggy Proton implementation, this is an issue with Square Enix's "hostile" practices in favor of Microsoft and Sony.

Update: They are blocking all Linux users intentionally. It is in there Login scripts are in msHTML and shuffling us as unsupported because they think it smart. There is a technical fix that I will not share here since they could use that information to further "1984" this game. It being discussed on and in all honesty I would suggest canceling your subs till this is fixed or if you are tech savvy just patch wine staging. This game will nowe have a lot of bork reports on ProtonDB I assume. Please abandon this world, the sky is falling for those who are advent supporters of soild and secure operating systems.

[RutaPea]

Just another Linux user chiming in. I remember the Mac OS version of FFXIV basically uses some proprietary wine, so it feels like this should not have happened. I hope it doesn't take too long to fix.

I cancelled my subscription for now. I was surprised to see there's no option to tick for "game broke" or any other functional issues. Not exactly nice to see that.

Not going to cancel my preorder (if I even can), since I'm hopeful it'll be fixed before then. I'm going to look on the bright side and say at least they're doing this change now so hopefully the expansion release won't be so bumpy. Maybe.