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Blocking Linux probably didn’t help those numbers
nearly daily Apex player moving to Linux full time again now that many more games work with it (knowing Apex no longer works). It will suck, but fuck microsoft and good riddance EA.
Even before then, people were up in arms about several changes.
Me and one friend used to play regularly, but they just straight up removed duos for almost a year. Trying to integrate a random third player into our teamwork just didn't work, so we stopped playing.
By the time they added duos back, we'd lost interest.
They made several changes like that, and I'm fairly certain hundreds of thousands of players felt burned in similar ways. You can't just "temporarily" remove the reason your players stick around, and expect them to stick around.
My friends and I used to do weekly apex nights.
Then they blocked linux. My desktop runs fedora and my other friend ran a steam deck. Ended up moving to Helldivers and DRG.
We played Apex for years. Oh well.
How's Helldivers on Fedora?
Works well! No crashes or anything.
I think I got more fps on windows but I haven't really spent much time tweaking and I don't have actual measurements so it could just be anecdotal.
EDIT: I use Proton + Steam to play.
I doubt it made much of a dent. I'm a Linux user for >15 years now.
With what marketshare lol. You overestimate how many people run linux / game on it.