I appreciate that Riot at least took the time to consider supporting Linux and explaining the situation to the community. Unfortunate that I won’t be able to play League of Legends anymore but I guess there’s not that much momentum behind a community of only ~800 daily users. Looking forward to switching to DotA.
They claim “we have never officially supported Linux” and then took a random day to point at how few people went through the effort of making it work anyway as their reason to not support it.
A random day months after announcing they would break it on Linux. I think the numbers before the Vanguard announcement would be far more representative.
Sort of unfair when weirdly enough MacOS is ok tho, they didn’t consider anything, simply decided not to.
DoTa is sooooo good! Never looked back :))
I’m actually grateful for this. Vanguard was exactly what I needed to stop playing the game. I had an unhealthy relationship with it and this actually helped me.
All the more reason to play Dota 2 instead
i did that, would not recommend it either
Curious - why? I’ve played LOL and the Blizzard one, but I never tried Dota 2
just as toxic, frustrating and timewasting. i quit it for the same reasons people say they quit lol. i did play lol for a short while and found it to be that bad too.
Too many distros so they can’t fully secure it. And if they did target just one distro the blowback would be intolerable as always. Currently only 800 players through lutris so its just not worth the investment. I get their reasoning it just sucks
And if they did target just one distro the blowback would be intolerable as always.
Would it be? Steam officially only supported (maybe still does) Ubuntu for a long time and I’ve never seen much blowback.
There was quite a lot when it came out, it died out after a while. There is far less for the steamos now based on arch but I think thats because its just on the steamdeck and they haven’t prevented other distros from being ported to the hardware
I feel that the 800 players count is severely misleading counting, they’ve announced no Linux support and vanguard changes for months now most people already stopped playing LoL on linux, this 800 number is counting now not a accumulative number.
Basically they pulled skewed and cherry picked metrics showing extremely low Linux activity to justify locking those players out of playing their game. It’s scummy and their “trust me bro” attitude towards vanguard should be concerning more than anything.
What I took away from this article was that there’s a shit load of cheaters in LoL, 15% of ranked matches or something like that had cheaters or smurfs. 1 in 10 games in NA and 1 in 5 matches in Europe is just insane.
I see this as an absolute win
