There’s that game where you made paperclips…
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoHow many games use HTTPS?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 days agoHow many games use HTTPS?
There’s that game where you made paperclips…
binomialchicken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Not HTTPS necessarily, but lots use TLS over 443. If you are sending something like login credentials to an online service, it makes sense for the servers to use what is universally available instead of reinventing the wheel. Also, some games may use a launcher that uses HTTPS if they are web-based in some fashion, or maybe the game will use it for certain kinds of API calls unrelated to actual gameplay.
If you are playing a game that uses a dedicated server (or just isn’t a competitive game at all), then TLS usage is probably unlikely, but those games aren’t lucrative for the account boosting/currency farming that makes cheating so rampant in China anyway.
Even signing up for some games requires you to create an account on their website first.