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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anyone with half a brain could see this coming from a mile away. My conspiracy brain almost thinks this is some concerted and calculated effort by Microsoft to artificially lock games to Windows through anti cheat. It's disgusting, isn't needed, and just plain isn't effective. They can spew all the metrics out of their ass, we all know that it's just not effective.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I am not sure about this conspiracy theory of yours: Microsoft does not want third party applications in the kernel space anymore.

    https://www.theverge.com/news/692637/microsoft-windows-kernel-antivirus-changes

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    a year ago on Mastodon when EA started locking out games like Apex Legends, BF1, V, 2042, etc from Linux I said "I bet you Microsoft is about to launch a handheld and since they have a deal with EA and Gamepass they want EA Exclusivity on their handheld and to lockout Steamdeck/Valve" sure enough a few months later Microsoft announces their Xbox handheld with Asus.

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