• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    As a Madden addict (not ultimate team, which is a cool idea ruined by monetization, just real teams head to head), I spent a bunch of time trying to jump through hoops to play it on Steam Deck. I went as far as installing windows to a microSD and trying to run it off that (because making it the actual OS or letting it touch my drive was unacceptable to me) before giving up.

    I ended up refunding, but I can see the motivation and frustration if something you’re really into doesn’t work when it should. (The previous version didn’t have anticheat and ran like a charm).

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      11 months ago

      Ha. Been there, spending hours and hours trying to get some game working. I’m thankful it’s been so much better in recent years. So much more painful a decade or so ago.

      That said, I never had to work around anticheat stuff. That sounds tough.

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        I wasn’t even trying to bypass it. I had a separate microsd I was going to run windows from just for Madden. But you don’t have a lot of options when they don’t think you’ve given them enough invasive access.

        I did bend the knee and get it for PS5 eventually, so I guess they still won.

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        11 months ago

        There have been exploits. You could break the AI to get an insta-sack for a while.

        I don’t think anti-cheat helped with that though. The actual reason is ultimate team. They don’t want anyone exploiting them instead of paying money.