Comment on Borderlands 2 is free to claim on Steam for the next two days

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do terms of service give them root level access?

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  • Dagamant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It doesn’t, installing the game does. The terms of service just let you know that you are willfully infecting your computer with spyware.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Then I suppose the loophole is to play on Linux.

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      • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Not in general. Typically, games with kernel level drm or anticheat just didn’t work at all.

        Borderlands 2 specifically has a native Linux version though, and it may or may not abuse this fact. It isn’t run in a sandbox-like environment like Windows games that run through proton, but according to protondb it does run through proton? In any case yes, it’s probably better than running it on Windows.

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      • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t even give them the storage space tbh…just makes other people think it’s ok because they can claim ‘big yuge numbers of players’

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    By indicating that root access is required to play the game, and that you agree to this by agreeing to the TOS. Without agreeing, you can’t play the game.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t mean to be disrespectful when I say this, but I can agree that gravity pulls things up instead of down and it won’t make it so. I just skimmed through the EULA and didn’t find anywhere that it said it needed root level access (though maybe I missed it), nor did the executable take any action to try to do so.

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    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The TOS doesn’t give the game executable magical powers to do things it wasn’t written to do.

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• EnsignPacts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People seem to not understand how TOS works. The game exe does not request admin permissions at all. There is no kernel level anticheat. It does not install Battleye or EAC or anything of the sort.

  The TOS is not specific to this game. It just means there is at least one game by Take Two Interactive that requires this (though when I skimmed through I couldn’t find mention of it).

  The game has not been updated since 2022 and I highly doubt it will get any more.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Add it while it’s free, worry about root later. :)

  I’m going to try it on my Steam Deck, I just naturally assume they already have root access.

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