Old launcher no longer working

[Ransu]

Except that Square Enix doesn't treat it as "nothing more than a store." Steam licenses are sold as separate licenses for a separate platform, being treated on the same footing as Windows, Mac, etc. If SE wants to treat Steam as its own platform, then they either need to support that platform or discontinue selling an independent license for it. They do not sell separate licenses for every other digital store that carries FFXIV.

Steam isn't a platform, its a store. Regardless of how SE treats the steam license, steam is still nothing more than a store page and on their store page it straight up says;

OS: Windows® 8.1 64 bit, Windows® 10 64 bit, Windows® 11 64 bit.

They do not support linux, they are under no obligation to support linux, nor should they support linux. Linux gives users full access to the OS kernal which is just a breeding ground for hacking/exploits and its the very reason developers like Bungie flat out said they will ban anyone trying to play Destiny 2 on Linux.

Using Linux is a "at your own risk" situation. The game does not officially support it and its on you to deal with those consequences, not SE. They have no obligation to abide to a less than 1% crowd that Linux on their home PC's.

[HereInPlainSight]

They do not support linux, they are under no obligation to support linux,

Not really asking anyone to support it, just asking them not to break it, on one specific platform. Keep in mind, the game itself runs perfectly fine under Linux. This is strictly a launcher issue. We're not complaining we crash when we go to a place in the world. The launcher within Steam is just being extremely restrictive, a problem not shared by anyone who's not using a Steam-specific key.

nor should they support linux.

Weird thing to say, but okay, sure. And again, 'support' is different from 'avoiding specific breakage.' The only trouble Linux has is with an old, dated technology in a launcher for XIV. Nothing to do with the game at all.

Linux gives users full access to the OS kernal which is just a breeding ground for hacking/exploits

... Oh, wow, okay, sure. Because Linux users are the ones exploiting all the games, especially the ones they can't even play because of anti-cheat. You're gonna have to pick a side, here -- either we're an endangered species or we're prolific.

and its the very reason developers like Bungie flat out said they will ban anyone trying to play Destiny 2 on Linux.

Nah. No anticheat needs kernel access in the first place, not really. It's the easy answer, but it'll always be the laziest answer, and the worst one. They can say whatever they want -- lazy dev is lazy.

Using Linux is a "at your own risk" situation. The game does not officially support it and its on you to deal with those consequences, not SE. They have no obligation to abide to a less than 1% crowd that Linux on their home PC's.

Once again, are we a prolific problem persistently pestering the populace, or are we less than one percent?

Oh, and 'don't fix what ain't broke.' This was an easily avoidable problem given there doesn't seem to be any actual need to push this update. Again, we don't need to be 'supported.' But we also don't need to be hampered.

[junmoxiao]

They could also just make the account linking feature opt-in (or opt-out) instead of mandatory for all users. It's a hoop that non-Steam users aren't even being forced to deal with right now.

[Ransu]

Once again, are we a prolific problem persistently pestering the populace, or are we less than one percent?

Its a can that doesn't need to be opened, thus the take companies like Epic and Bungie are taking against supporting linux.