Roblox’s new anti-cheat software program places a cease to in-game exploits, however at what price? In accordance with Liam Dawe from Gaming On Linux, it is blocking the Wine software, which means “you will not be capable to play it on Linux any extra, in any respect, except you discover some type of particular workaround.” He provides: “Beforehand the roll-out of this replace was being examined solely with some customers. Now although it is right here for everybody giving a 64 bit shopper and introducing their Hyperion anti-cheat software program which they’re deliberately blocking Wine with.” Here is what one in all their workers needed to say about this: Hello – thanks for the query. I positively get the place you are coming from, and as you level out, you deserve a transparent, good-faith reply. Sadly that reply is basically “no.”
From a private perspective, lots of people at Roblox would like to assist Linux (together with me). Virtually talking, there’s simply no manner for us to justify it. If we launch a shopper, we have now to assist it, which suggests QA, CS, documentation, and so forth., all of which is rather more troublesome on a fragmented platform. We launch weekly on a half-dozen platforms. Including within the time to check, debug, and launch a Linux shopper could be costly, which suggests time taken away from bettering Roblox on our present platforms.
Even Wine assist is troublesome due to anti-cheat. As great as it could be to permit Roblox below Wine, the variety of customers who would make the most of that’s minuscule in contrast with our different platforms, and it is not worthwhile if it makes it straightforward for exploiters to cheat.
I am sorry to be such a downer about this, nevertheless it’s the fact. We’ve to spend our time porting to and supporting the platforms that can develop our neighborhood.
Once more, I am personally sorry to need to say this. Method again in 2000 I had a couple of patches accepted into the kernel, and I led the port of Roblox recreation servers from Home windows to Linux a number of years in the past. From a technical and philosophical perspective, it could be an exquisite factor to do. However our first accountability is to our general neighborhood, and the chance price of supporting a Linux shopper is way, far too excessive to justify.
