The problem is not the cheaters, it’s the amount of money they earn from mining your data unrestricted with kernel level access. It’s a fucking gold mine.
Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live
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Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 8 months ago
I think this is something that e.g. the EU should lool into. Breaking a product for a number of people by adding shit like this after launch should at least be elligible for a refund or straight up banned.
moody@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Unfortunately, I doubt there’s anything that can be done legally. It’s announced, promoted, and sold as a Windows game. I don’t think they have any responsibility to make sure it works on other platforms, though I think they should do it anyway.
That said, if these companies want people to depend on their servers to play games, server-side anti-cheat makes a lot more sense and is a lot more effective. But they don’t care about what makes sense.