Comment on Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 5 months agoMy position is that community moderated servers are significantly more effective at controlling cheaters than any intrusive anti-cheat has ever been, and that the rise in intrusive anti-cheat coinciding with the death of community and self hosted servers is not a coincidence.
I agree. I think it’s the actual sense of community that you need. It’s the reason I can play rec sports or the pub quiz and it’s not constantly ruined by assholes.
You can’t have a sense of community with hundreds of thousands of people in the same queue to play a game.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
My position is that cheaters, spammers and griefers when they are relatively equally distributed in all popular competitive games are not actually a threat to the business model of massive corporations like EA, rather they are actually a great business opportunity to rationalize taking more and more control away from customers so long as they are loosely managed from getting entirely out of control.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I mean, other than making people not want to buy/play their games?
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Beauty of a position you have there.