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Comment by owaislone

20 days ago

I really is impressive. I wish publishers like EA and anti-cheat developers weren't so reluctant to support it. I hope Steam devices and SteamOS gain enough traction to force their hands.

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sdenton4  20 days ago

Idk, kernel anti cheat is a pretty clear sign to me that I should pick a different game to play anyway...

  • ZiiS  20 days ago

    Ironically the only way I would ever consider robust anti-cheet is if the game installed a seperate bootable Linux witch didn't have the encryption keys for my main partition.

    • somat  19 days ago

      you may be on to something here. "you want to play our game, boot it off a usb drive"

  • HWR_14  20 days ago

    Does windows make it easy to tell the installer wants to install kernel anti cheat? It used to pop up the generic binary "This application wants to change files on your computer" which could be installing in the protected "Program Files" or could be modifying anything.

cultofmetatron  20 days ago

Paying for a game that inserts rootkits into your kernel feels like paying money to get molested. no thanks.

  • Arwill  20 days ago

    Hate to be the one saying this, but that rootkit is there to prevent you from molesting/cheating other players. So its not an one-sided issue. It is unfortunate that the developers found no other way of fighting cheats, sure.

    And by all means, if a game community is so toxic that it has to be policed by extreme measures, it is perhaps indeed better to avoid playing such a game altogether.

    • cultofmetatron  20 days ago

      agreed. if a condition of attending an event was that I had to wear a chastity belt that prevented guests from raping each other, I'd think twice about attending alltogether.

    • johanvts  19 days ago

      I don’t care if my shooter game “community” is toxic. I don’t have any interaction with the “community” other than to try and virtually kill its members. I wish my chess app had anti-cheat, there are just some people who will cheat and any game is more fun if they can be prevented from playing.