This game is aggressively hostile to Linux players for absolutely no reason. Not only is there a precedent of every (non riot) fighting game working on Linux, there is precedent of ArcSys games working great on Linux, as well as Sony published games working on Linux.

Yet this game has decided to stoop low to straight up block any Linux player from even LAUNCHING the game. Unlike the previous ArcSys fighting game to have Easy Anti Cheat, Dragon Ball FighterZ, this game will not even let Linux players launch the game whatsoever. No offline play, nothing at all. If you purchases this game on any device running any flavor of Linux, you might as well have flushed $60 down the drain. That is unless you enjoy looking at a splash screen telling you that you aren't allowed to play the game.

Easy Anti Cheat has been widely supported on Linux for many years now, and it's common knowledge that a game simply having an anti cheat is typically not enough these days for it to be completely incompatible with Linux. Only the extremly invasive anti cheats, see Riot's Vanguard anti cheat, are the ones that do not work. You can read the article itself from Valve, Easy Anti Cheat specifically was mentioned as being an easy process.

"Our team has been working with Epic on Easy Anti-Cheat + Proton support over the last few months, and we're happy to announce that adding Steam Deck support to your existing EAC games is now a simple process, and doesn't require updating game binaries, SDK versions, or integration of EOS. Alongside our BattleEye updated from last year, this means that the two largest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and Steam Deck."

When asked about potential Linux support on the Marvel Tokon Discord, a community manager responded with, "what you need to understand that this is like requesting it for a different platform like the switch."

Not only is this a completely false statement, the community is not asking for a NATIVE linux port. We simply just want to play the game how 99% of all other games on Linux work, through wine/proton.

And I understand that the inclusion of Easy Anti Cheat is most likely a Sony mandated thing, not ArcSys themselves. But one thing to know is that, cheating in Fighitng Games is incredibly miniscule compared to basically any other genre of multiplayer video games. Does it happen? Yes, but does any fighting game (which often have zero anti cheat at all) ever have to deal with waves of cheaters? No. Not even close.

I suppose that this is to be expected from Sony these days. As with their recent actions of deleting paid content from people's libraries, killing off the PS3 and Vita stores, while at the same time doing their best to ensure a digital only future where we will have zero rights over the content we purchase, not allowing Linux support is just another cap in the feather of massive anti consumer practices they are putting on full display.

This game is aggressively hostile to Linux players for absolutely no reason. Not only is there a precedent of every (non riot) fighting game working on Linux, there is precedent of ArcSys games working great on Linux, as well as Sony published games working on Linux. Yet this game has decided to stoop low to straight up block any Linux player from even LAUNCHING the game. Unlike the previous ArcSys fighting game to have Easy Anti Cheat, Dragon Ball FighterZ, this game will not even let Linux players launch the game whatsoever. No offline play, nothing at all. If you purchases this game on any device running any flavor of Linux, you might as well have flushed $60 down the drain. That is unless you enjoy looking at a splash screen telling you that you aren't allowed to play the game. Easy Anti Cheat has been widely supported on Linux for many years now, and it's common knowledge that a game simply having an anti cheat is typically not enough these days for it to be completely incompatible with Linux. Only the extremly invasive anti cheats, see Riot's Vanguard anti cheat, are the ones that do not work. You can read the article itself from Valve, Easy Anti Cheat specifically was mentioned as being an easy process. "Our team has been working with Epic on Easy Anti-Cheat + Proton support over the last few months, and we're happy to announce that adding Steam Deck support to your existing EAC games is now a simple process, and doesn't require updating game binaries, SDK versions, or integration of EOS. Alongside our BattleEye updated from last year, this means that the two largest anti-cheat services are now easily supported on Proton and Steam Deck." When asked about potential Linux support on the Marvel Tokon Discord, a community manager responded with, "what you need to understand that this is like requesting it for a different platform like the switch." Not only is this a completely false statement, the community is not asking for a NATIVE linux port. We simply just want to play the game how 99% of all other games on Linux work, through wine/proton. And I understand that the inclusion of Easy Anti Cheat is most likely a Sony mandated thing, not ArcSys themselves. But one thing to know is that, cheating in Fighitng Games is incredibly miniscule compared to basically any other genre of multiplayer video games. Does it happen? Yes, but does any fighting game (which often have zero anti cheat at all) ever have to deal with waves of cheaters? No. Not even close. I suppose that this is to be expected from Sony these days. As with their recent actions of deleting paid content from people's libraries, killing off the PS3 and Vita stores, while at the same time doing their best to ensure a digital only future where we will have zero rights over the content we purchase, not allowing Linux support is just another cap in the feather of massive anti consumer practices they are putting on full display.