In March Linux Proton Users Will No Longer Be Able to Play The Game

[AlyaNimfa]

Like I get that the number of linux users is small, but is our contribution to the game small? Is our value as players small? I don't think so, and I hope that's not how Squaresoft sees it.

Well, you said it yourself. There aren’t many of you. And your value and contribution is small in the grand scheme of things. It’s a tad arrogant to say you are worth more than everyone else, which is what you just done.

[Diplopod]

Well, you said it yourself. There aren’t many of you. And your value and contribution is small in the grand scheme of things. It’s a tad arrogant to say you are worth more than everyone else, which is what you just done.

They're saying they're worth just as much as everyone else, not that they're worth more. They pay the same amount the rest of us do every month, they should be able actually run and play the game.

[DistractionCat]

Well, you said it yourself. There aren’t many of you. And your value and contribution is small in the grand scheme of things. It’s a tad arrogant to say you are worth more than everyone else, which is what you just done.

As Diplopod says, I only meant that I'm worth as much of a player as you are, as anyone is. I was careful not to say we are entitled to it working: We are not. It's literally not supported, and we're on our own if anything goes wrong. But Square *cares* when they disrupt a player's experience, and, well, suddenly and without warning I couldn't play the game. I wanted that experience to be known. Everyone's life is better if we can understand each other. I wonder what your stake in this is.

It's not just linux either, this has disrupted a lot of peoples' game experience. For a while you couldn't even login if you had non-alphanumeric characters in your steam ID.

Ironically, there's a workaround now, and any linux+steam players that were using the vanilla launcher, from now on, won't be. From a pragmatic standpoint, that's a bad outcome for Square. The intent was to lock players into a particular login system, for security reasons, and it's been circumvented in mere days.

[Fawkes]

I'm sure Gabe Newell is working day and night to make it compatible.

[Larirawiel]

Gabe Newell also plays FF14. He will notice quickly if the game does not start.


Cheers

[Alenonimo]

Really hope they make the game more Linux-friendly. Steam Deck looks pretty cool and would be neat to play the game on it.

[Lily_Skye]

stop being a hipster and use a real OS like Windows 10 or 11

[Breakbeat]

Aww. I feel quite sad for all 46 of you.

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Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Bellsong]

Great community by the way!

[MiaShino]

What the heck is with some of hostility towards Linux users in here, jeeeeeez some of you have deep issues I would consider working through.

Tis not overwhelmingly difficult to develop software native to Linux even if not native with advancements in Proton and DXVK easier then ever to get non native stuffs running. Do not much care what Torvalds said about package managers or some indie dev winging about bug reports. Have assisted in developing much for Linux (mostly server stuffs), was no problem.

For anyone in here without something lodged within their posterior, have been poking about the source code for one certain forbidden launcher. They are already in progress implementing various things to re-enable Linux compatibility for FF14. If are familiar with how to read code can easily find their github and have peek for yourself. Most of what I saw was placeholder code buuuuuut there is hope! Will be switching primarily to Linux myself sooooon as cannot stand Windows 10 or 11. Enjoy having low memory footprint and install size for my OS thank you very much. Also do not enjoy when my OS believes it knows better how I should use my PC then I do.

Really really fun disabling annoying garbage over and over and over like Windows Derpfender on my Windows servers, really really fun mmhmm. Do not have to do that on my Linux boxes. Pop in thumb drive > install > launch os > grab dependencies > never require a restart ever again is quite nice yup yup. It does not even gargle down several gigabytes of memory simply existing either or decide meow is the time to index my entire drive for "faster search lookup" I am looking at you Windows localhost guzzling down more cpu cycles than a muckbanger.