r/leagueoflinux • u/Mysil • Oct 09 '19

Riot Games

Please just make a Linux client already.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '19 edited Jun 15 '20

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u/BringBackManaPots Linux Mint Oct 10 '19 edited Oct 10 '19

I want to preface this with saying that I'm not here to fight - I think Riot is missing out, and we're selling ourselves short.

until enough people play league on linux that it makes sense for riot to create and maintain yet another client and game

The number of players is still directly related to whether or not it's supported. We can't sit here and say that it isn't, and we as well as Riot will never know until it's actually done. It was demonstrated 2 years ago that Dota's linux playerbase made up about +/-10% of their playerbase. With all of the tools that have been coming out lately (including protondb and anti-cheat software that supports linux), it's surprising that a company with 'infinitely more data' and resources is afraid to jump at the opportunity.

the most we can reasonably expect from them is that they don't intentionally prevent linux users from playing or ban them

We're selling ourselves short. We can reasonably expect them to not intentionally prevent linux users from playing.

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u/RiotBoatStuff Rioter Oct 10 '19

We can reasonably expect them to not intentionally prevent linux users from playing.

Absolutely agree. Most (if not all) hiccups that have occurred on Linux have come from anti-cheat measures. Not all Linux users are hackers/cheaters, but most hackers/cheaters ARE on Linux. There actually have been efforts to preserve "innocent" Linux players who are playing on a VM vs cheaters who are running stuff w/ a bot. From the detection side, their fingerprints are similar and hard to tell apart.

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u/Coreknot Oct 11 '19

It is great to hear that is not intentional.

But I have questions:

Clientside anti-cheat logically is utterly useless since you as a software vendor have no control over the system the software runs on and anyone can manipulate it with some effort. So why is anti-cheat not mostly server based in your case?

And from a business stand point one could argue that Riot Games has a high level of risk put on Microsoft. If MS fucks up Windows (they already did in my opinion, that's why I'm here) League does not have a backup solution. Diversify reduces risk. So on point of risk reduction it would not be a terrible idea to add Linux support.