Comment by wackget

24 days ago

I just checked out this game on Steam and was pretty excited to buy it until I read that it requires a kernel-level anticheat which acts as a rootkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard

Why on earth is any self-respecting person installing this on their machine?

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littlekey  24 days ago

Because they want to play the game and don't know or care what a "kernel-level anticheat which acts as a rootkit" is. Which probably makes up 99.9% of their userbase.

braiamp  16 days ago

FYI, it works on Linux, so as far as I'm aware, it only seems to care about you flying around.