Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never understood kernel level anti-cheat. People STILL cheat. lol
To be fair, it certainly still makes cheating harder. If it didn't exist, you'd just see even more people cheating, but it's a pretty overkill way of system monitoring for such a relatively small benefit by comparison.
Massive privacy risk, only slightly better performance than other non-kernel monitoring.
Some games just need people back in the equation instead of relying on algorithms. Bring back the Game Master’s to MMOs etc, these people are willing to work for peanuts and be happy, yet they still decided to cut costs by replacing them…
...wait, games don't have even a single person checking for cheaters, even casually? Like, they wholly rely on anticheat?
(PS, has been a decently long time since I played a game that needed anti cheat)
Depends on the game, really, but “relying” on anti-cheat is pretty common. Larger games tend to have teams who review cases that get flagged by the systems and players and do manual removal but these teams also tend to be quite small and unable to adequately handle the amount of cheating that occurs.
If gamers want to see cheaters less often, they need to pressure the companies to do human moderation in addition.
I think people can vote to kick people but that’s it really
FF14 and BDO for example still have GMs but they are woefully understaffed. This is the more common reality.
Few to no mmos have zero GMs. They just frequently only work for like an hour a day doing spot checks are under staffed and mostly just are email support.
The old days of gms frequently being actively in-game to reach out to 24/7 isn’t a thing anymore.
Sure, if you are comparing to having no anti-cheat at all… But there are tons of competitive games out there using more “traditional” anti-cheat that don’t need kernal access that are doing fine.
Did you never play Fall Guys on PC?
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes,
but game companies also want to spy on you and potentially sell your data. Even if they aren’t selling it, the ability to do so increases the value to investors. This is the way tech companies talk about invasive usage in general, FWIW.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 3 weeks ago
Can you name an instance of a game company doing that?
anzo@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Data brokers do exist… Who they buy from is the only privacy they respect. You know, capitalism.
derin@lemmy.beru.co 2 weeks ago
So by that logic we shouldn’t be downloading any precompiled binaries from the net - they could all be spying on us!