Around 59% of the anti-cheat games tracked by Are We Anti-Cheat Yet are broken on Linux/Proton or have been explicitly denied support. Yet EAC and BattlEye have Proton-compatible paths. For major games such as Apex Legends, the obstacle is often a developer's security decision rather than a technical impossibility.
The industry narrative is simple: publishers fled GTA 6 and piled into September. A game-by-game look shows the pattern is real, but the evidence behind it is far more fragmented than the story suggests.
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