Steam has a history of removing things people don't like (for example: banning ad-ridden games)

So if all these reports can bring them to add this to their TOS, it's worth it

Not a lot. Even when it isn't a flatpak windows software running on linux won't be able to interact with the system anywhere near as deeply as on windows.

They'll be able to tell it's linux, though.

I'm sorry, but Battleborn was brilliant. Deadlock is the first game to re-capture (and expand on) the mix of mechanics Battleborn put together.

Didn't stop Gearbox from shutting it down so that no-one who bought it could ever play again. Not even the story campaign.

It's because Take Two came out with a fuck-you-in-the-ass EULA for all their games. I actually look forward to boycotting someone, there's too much free and discounted shit everywhere

I doubt it though, the game will be 13 years old this year. It wouldn’t make financial sense for them to bother.

New to linux...are flatpaks like sandboxed?

I didn't enjoy the Handsome Collection but free is free. Thanks for sharing.

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.

I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - "other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!"

People say this all the time about Denuvo too: "Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you're playing other games?"

And see, that's the problem - we aren't playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren't buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that's a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we've already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

It isn't a mistake. Writing different EULA for each game costs more money than writing an overly aggressive one that covers most cases.

absolutely. Steam is not to mess with and takes such matters quite seriously.

They are somewhat isolated but not sandboxed.

I object to that for XCOM

‍️ is free and without shenanigans.

Don’t speak I’ll of steam and billionaire Gabe around here. The steam bros are gonna crucify you for daring to even think ill of THEIR corporation and THEIR billionaire who of course loves and cares for them all.

Edit: there it is

You can install an application like Flatseal (https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) to inspect the permissions for a flatpak.

How locked down a flatpak is depends entirely on the developer and what permissions they request. By default, they can't really see much. For example, they can't even see the processes running on your host or your user and system files.

Flatpak does not do anything about network access though, it can only do no access or full access, no in between. The data they can collect on Linux in a Flatpak is very limited but it does not prevent them from calling home.

Yes, but it should still be illegal for a company to do this. Don't let them blame the users for accepting this bullshit. As Louis Rossmann would say, they have the mentality of a rapist.

If it hasn't been updated that means the new user agreement isn't asked surely?

Yikes. Is the review in the screenshot true? They got root anticheat? Or rootkit data harvesting?

I don't click thru any EULAs. I see bad EULA - I pirate. Then if it makes any network traffic i just block that shit.