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6/7/2026 10:21:55 AM
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Please, let Linux players back in.
You don’t have to officially support it. You don’t even have to provide us custommer support.
Even if Microsoft had never contributed to the genocide in Gaza and aligned itself with the current corrupt US administration (opening your users to much more serious security issues than keeping cheaters out of a game will ever be), there would still be little reason to impose Windows. Even if you think kernel-level anti-cheats aren’t a security violation in itself.
The stated reason back then was to stop cheaters, but Overwatch, for all its flaws, welcomes Linux players and in my experience has an order of magnitude fewer cheaters. Plenty of competitive games run BattleEye raw, without blocking Linux or adding extra in-house shenanigans on top of the 3rd party anti-cheat just fine.
Even if for some obscure technical reason this couldn’t apply to Destiny 2, you could simply disable the anti-cheat for non-world’s first race PvE activities, even if I don’t think the competitive integrity of mayhem modes or the SRL warrants such drastic measures in the first place.
Many of us played D2 for half a decade before being blocked, and D1 before that. Some of us only switched to Linux recently because of the reasons cited earlier. All of us would be overjoyed if we could take part in one of our favorite games of all time’s final farewell update.
Linked is [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/xuonok/focused_feedback_linux_and_alternative_platform/]Bungie’s official megathread[/url] on the question opened 4 years ago. It’s still active. Guardians are still begging you to let them back in to this day.
Please Bungie, reconsider locking Linux players out.
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Honestly with linux support already baked into Steam's proton and BattlEye it's not like Bungie has to even greenlight a linux-specific release of the game. All they have to do is just lift the restrictions and allow the compatibility software in both to take over from there. With the state the company is in, they need every spare player they can get.
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I stopped playing Destiny when switched over to linux. Installed windows on an external drive to check the last update and boy, what a mess that OS is. Also dual booting sucks. From now on, any game that doesn't support proton is a game that I won't play I and a game that won't have my money. I know this may make no difference for Destiny as the game is already dead, but may make a difference for Marathon.
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14 Replies[quote]You don’t have to officially support it. You don’t even have to provide us custommer support.[/quote]Thats not how it works. If they put it on a platform, they have to support it. You may not want or need their support but others will. [quote]The stated reason back then was to stop cheaters, but Overwatch, for all its flaws, welcomes Linux players and in my experience has an order of magnitude fewer cheaters[/quote]And cheaters chased Apex Legends off of Linux. [quote] Plenty of competitive games run BattleEye raw, without blocking Linux or adding extra in-house shenanigans on top of the 3rd party anti-cheat just fine.[/quote]D2 also uses their own in house anticheat that runs only on windows. [quote]All of us would be overjoyed if we could take part in one of our favorite games of all time’s final farewell update.[/quote]then install windows or geforce now There is not enough Linux players who would be paying customers to off set the costs that would be incurred by adopting a new OS support.
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Won't happen destiny 2 will only get a few hot fixes and patches to put the game in a stable enough state now. It's over no more big updates to destiny plus Linux would be a waste of time for a game on life support
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Idk where you get your info that there are less cheaters in overwatch. On pc at least, cheaters are running rampant. I do feel for you though, it sucks to be excluded but why not invest on a console instead? It’s cheaper and hopefully gives you the same satisfaction. Of course I don’t know your situation but I doubt bungie will make any drastic change like that again.
