I migrated to Linux last week. I found out that Rocket League was unsupported (i.e. their servers refused connection) on Linux. So I went to Steam and enabled Proton compatibility for the game, and ran the Windows version with no issues.

EA seem almost malicious the way they're going against the tide of developers supporting Steam Deck / Proton. Online shooters is one thing, but this is a fucking skateboarding game.

Yeah they don't want their precious anti-cheat to be tampered with... to protect their microtransactions, which is the real reason they are even making this game in the first place. To make it a vaguely skateboard themed Fortnite skin selling money printer.

Oh no! Anyway.

I confirm that again, as a potential customer who does but games like this, will then not be purchasing their product.

Thats fine i dont buy EA games

This will have no impact on my permanent boycott of EA products.

Them not supporting Linux makes it easy for me to maintain my personal ban on EnshitificationAmalgamated.

Well and I don't support EA, that closes the circle

This is the only thing EA has released in years I was interested in. Wasn’t going to buy it anyways, and now I can’t play it even if I wanted to. I’ll just stick to session and skater XL if I want the skate experience.

Skate 3 works in xenia to scratch the itch.

Oh, that's a shame. My desire to try out Bazzite outweighs my desire to play this game, though.

If it's proton compatible, it might still be possible to play on something beefier than a steam deck, maybe?

They can keep it. No need to buy what they f-ck up.

Well that's ok, because I don't buy EA games anyhow.

Skate 2 and 3 sure are fun.

Full circle, I have confirmed that I will not be supporting EA's Skate

Fortunately, I don't care. I haven't bought an EA game since maybe 2010-ish and I have no plans to do so.

I was wondering why it won’t support Linux and the answer is anti cheat. Having played skate 1 and 3, I wondered why an anti cheat was needed. Apparently it’s an online game.

I have never played skate online before. Why would I want to play online over like just skating obstacles by myself? I’d rather have a skate able game in my pocket without multiplayer than multiplayer

Don't expect it to ever be supported either, not at least until the day Linux as a platform grows to a point where EA can't ignore it by blocking it like they also do for Apex Legends, Battlefield and more.

I forgot why I stopped playing Apex Legends.

So they only address legacy gaming setups?

How many “not buying it” comments will this post get before someone realizes it’s a free game?

Cool. Not buying it then.

It’s f2p.

I've been playing the Tony Hawk remastered to be fun as an alternative.

Skate 3 on an emulator for me i guess

I wanted to do another playthrough anyway