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Roblox says it hasn’t blocked Linux or Steam Deck, but it’s reportedly toast there
Roblox says it never officially supported them, anyhow.
In a Roblox developer forum, a staffer explained the company had actually unofficially supported Wine for some time — but that the unofficial support wouldn’t last, because some people were using it to reverse engineer the company’s Hyperion anti-cheat and develop Roblox hacks. “We see it being used for cheating, which is heartbreaking, to be honest, as this was a personal effort of our developers under the assumption that folks out there would understand and not misuse it,” wrote Bitdancer, according to GamingOnLinux. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney once said he wouldn’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck for the same reason, because of the “threat model to a game of Fortnite’s size” from custom Linux kernels that could defeat anti-cheat.
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