Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://cyberinsider.com/rockstar-games-ddosed-heavily-by-players-protesting-new-anticheat-code/

Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
According to Mutahar:

The Anti Cheat has already been bypassed by a free cheat menu on Windows.

He’s fairly sure he has figured out some kind of way to temporarily bypass (as in, it’ll probably get caught in a few weeks) the linux block by some kind of custom virtualization method that he says he may explain in detail at some point.

In general, he’s done with playing GTO.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=eMSagozpKPs&pp=ygUSbXV0YWhh…

But yeah, obligatory reminder for BattleEye and EasyAntiCheat games that refuse to allow linux play:

All these game devs have to do is flip a switch, click a few options in their developer portals, to allow BattleEye or EAC to work on linux, through Proton.

And its been that way for 3 years, since 2022.

There is literally no reason for games that use these services to not work on linux, the devs just don’t fucking care.
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- AsudoxDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Some devs sure do fear linux users.
  
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  - doctortran@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It feels like it’s part and parcel with an overall, growing trend in software to be openly hostile to any system wherein the user has proper admin rights.
    
    Because the potential for someone to use those rights to fuck with the software merits refusing to support systems where they can.
    
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’ve heard Deb say that Lennox users come up with something like 90% of the bug reports. They’re often bugs that only affect Linux so you’ve got say 10% to the player base reporting 90% of the issues and about 85% of those issues only affect the 10% of the player base.
    
    Simply from an economics standpoint it doesn’t make sense to spend that much resources on such a small percentage of the player population. Additionally about half of those Linux users do have Windows computers that they are prepared to buy your game on if that’s the only option. So again it makes no financial sense to actually support Linux.
    
    As far as the studios see it they are taking a 5% cut in profits in order to reduce workload by 85% - seems like a good deal.
    
    I can’t even really argue with that because they make a good point. Indie devs have it even more difficult because they often have much smaller teams and really can’t handle the workloads that Linux users would give them.
    
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- scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Dont blame developers. It’s never developers that make decisions. It’s the management, the shareholders, the project manager, the product owner, the whatever-mba-dipshit on top. But never the developers. They just execute and comply and if they refuse, they’re let go. A developer is a fleshy code printer. A resource. They don’t have real power. They’re a factory worker. Remember that. Don’t blame the worker, blame the boss.
  
  Source: i’m a professional software developer.
  
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  - bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This.
    
    I follow code of ethics and raise concerns where applicable. But even if you refuse, they’ll just pick another development team out of their hats to implement anyway.
    
    So many are afraid to lose their jobs now they will keep their heads down and do it anyway.
    
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- buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I had been wondering why everybody was so angry at them for implementing anti-cheat software. I didn’t realize that they were locking out Linux users. That’s a bunch of bullshit.
  
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  - Crismus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Especially a big problem for people who play on Steam Deck. Which most game companies don’t consider it a Console, which is stupid.
    
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sp6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If I played any Rockstar games, I’d be unhappy with their new anti-cheat too, since it needlessly blocks linux, but this isn’t the way this should be protested. If anything, this probably validates their decision.

The way this should be protested is to just stop playing. Stop giving them money. Stop boosting their month active user numbers that they can flaunt to investors. Hit them financially, since it’s the only hit they really care about. There’s a sea of other high-quality games you can play instead.

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- Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I did this with Blizzard/Activision years ago.
  
  Zero impact.
  
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  - WordBox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Keep it up. There’s dozen(s) of us?
    
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  - gwilikers@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It was an impact of one.
    
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- Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Gamers and still buying the same old tired shit while bitching about it, name a more…
  
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  - echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    In your opinion.
    
    Stop gatekeeping people’s game choices. You can play what you want, and they can play what they want.
    
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  - rivalary@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    GTA Online has terrible monetization and Rockstar are openly hostile towards PC as a platform, but I wouldn’t call GTA mediocre at all. There’s nothing quite like the attention to detail or breadth of GTA games. If you’ve played a few GTA clones, you’ll know what the competition looks like and it’s not even close.
    
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- forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’ve read that Steam is accepting refunds for GTAV - I’d recommend anyone who bought it there refund it.
  
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  - Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Really??? Even if I bought it years ago lmao? It no longer works on my steam deck, but its not like I bought it when the deck even existed. However, I did have that idea…
    
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- tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Have you tried not buying something in protest? If so have you noticed they keep selling it anyway and you have no alternative? Not giving them money isn’t enough.
  
  I’m not a fan of DOSA as it’s rather strongarm but at least this actually sends a message to them AND other users.
  
  I’m not interested in having to fight anti-features to play what I paid for, but at least circumventing it sends a message.
  
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  - Buttons@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I bought Crysis and didn’t like the DRM, so I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game since. How’s that working out for Ubisoft?
    
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    if so have you noticed they keep selling it anyway and you have no alternative?
    
    You seem to have missed the point. The alternative is not playing the game at all.
    
    Be an adult, have some self-control.
    
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- Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m pretty sure it’s not Linux gamers doing this.
  
  It’s cheaters.
  
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  - MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Cheat creators probably, they gotta protect their revenue
    
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- jonne@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah, I’m actually supportive of some kind of anti cheat on GTA online, because with all the cheating it’s just unplayable. Unfortunately I was playing on steam deck so I haven’t been able to play it since. Presumably it can be supported relatively easy so I hope they fix that issue.
  
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Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The fact that it’s a top 10 seller on steam deck for years and they just fucked over everyone on Linux, they deserve it. We all paid them and they completely screwed all of us. I feel so cheated. I only run Linux and I have a steam deck. I left a bad review on steam and I contacted their support from all my rockstar accounts, but it’s not enough. Battleye is compatible with Linux, they just had to send an email, but rockstar keeps lying that it’s not compatible.

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- ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Even if it’s not compatible, “ok then where’s my damn refund?”
  
  Basically theft, really.
  
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  - Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You can request a refund. An earlier post last week said they are offering refunds for rug-pulled players.
    
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  - emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I still blame valve a lot for this. Their TOS offer us no protection. Publishers should not be able to retroactively lock down a game. Diminishing the game performance or adding unwanted DRM after purchase should be a refundable offense. People choose whether or not to buy games based on properties like these.
    
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Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Stop making every fucking game and open world mmo wanna be. Bring back single player with couch co op or make private lobby setups so we don’t have to fuck with every douche who wants to make everyone else’s life as sad as their own.

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- cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If a game offers multiplayer, they should also offer a dedicated server that people can setup for themselves.
  
  For MMOs, they can make the servers optionally federated.
  
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  - thadah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This relates closely to the EU Initiative from www.stopkillinggames.com
    
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- BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Around the time gta 5 came out, i lived with two guys and had 3 neighbours and we would often play video games together, but we never really found a game that we all liked. Gtao was just around the corner and the trailers looked so fun. People doing silly shit, skydiving together, play some golf, race around the city. When it actually came out and worked, oh boy. Leave the house, get shot, drive around, get shot, try to do something with friends, get blown up by a fighter jet. The answer is always: it’s GTA, of course you get shot, play mario part, or shot like that. Yeah, i get that, but i always felt like it’s just people who enjoy to make other people’s experience worse, and it’s not about pvp. Gta draws such a weird crowd.
  
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  - Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Every online game is like that now. I avoid all of them for that reason. It doesn’t matter the game, if it starts to get popular the massive group of trolls shows up and goes out of there way to figure out the methodology to ruin the gameplay for others.
    
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  - Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I played WoW right when it came out, on a PvP server.
    
    There was already a subset of the crowd just like there back then - some people rushed game progression to have higher levels as soon as possible only to then hang out in beginner areas and “pwn” lower level players.
    
    That’s around the time when the term “griefer” was coined.
    
    In these things the real difference is how the servers are structured rather than the crowd: if the architecture is designed so that there is some way to filter players (smaller servers with moderation or some kind of kick voting system that’s bans repeat offenders), griefers end up in their own griefer instances griefing each other and the rest can actually play the game, otherwise you get a deeply beginner (people with less time, such as working adults) unfriendly environment.
    
    As somebody else pointed out environments were people run their own servers tend create those conditions at least for some cases (basically if there’s some kind of moderation) whilst massive world centralized server environments tend to give free right to people whose pleasure in a multiplayer games derives mostly from making it unpleasent for others (in game-making, griefing is actually recognized as one of the 4 core types of enjoyment - along with achiving, exploring and socializing - people can derived from multiplayer games)
    
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- Muffi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I wish more games came with couch co-op. It was a lot of fun in Halo and Diablo.
  
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- pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  wait, can you not play GTA single player anymore?
  
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  - Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Course you can. I never even touched the multiplayer.
    
    I attempted to load it back on the PS3, sat in a queue for about ten minutes and gave up. Probably for the best.
    
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- bitwolf@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yes!
  
  90% of the games I buy now are couch coop. Was sad about Halo abandoning it.
  
  Couch coop defined my view of what video games are.
  
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- barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  But how can we milk you for subscription money that way?
  
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- Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Couch co-op gta san andreas was the best, so sad it’s not more common in present games.
  
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Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Don’t buy games with invasive user-side anti-cheats that hamper performance, and demand refunds on any game that adds it after purchase.

I don’t understand why this is so hard for people. If everyone gave a shit, we could end this. But instead, people would rather just complain while still forking over the money to these companies.

There are so many good indie games without this kind of bullshit. We have better choices.

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They implemented this 10 years after the game’s release. It’s harder to vote with your wallet at that point.
  
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  - Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    and demand refunds on any game that adds it after purchase.
    
    The way I see it, adding it, even this late, is changing the terms of the agreement and thus justification for a refund. Steam will often see it that way too if you word it as such. And if not, hell, you can still badger the publisher for a refund incessantly so at least it still costs them the equivalent in man hours even if you don’t get the refund. The point is not to be passive, even if we don’t get to win every single battle.
    
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  - johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Probably testing it for gta6.
    
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  - RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Right, I bought that shit in 2014 I think. Haven’t played it in several years.
    
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- DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It didn’t have “invasive user side anti-cheat” on day one you doughnut
  
  That’s why Linux users bought it. This was added YEARS after release
  
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  - Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Where did I even remotely imply otherwise?
    
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- johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Is “get rid of all anti-cheat” a popular position outside of Lemmy? I don’t really play these sorts of games but was under the impression that most competitive multiplayer would be unplayable without anti-cheat measures.
  
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  - Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    There are plenty of anti-cheat measure that doesn’t require invasive access to your system or performance hits. The objection is not to fighting cheating, it is with the specific overreaching methodology chosen to do so.
    
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  - Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Anti-cheat measures should be baked into the server side. 99 percent of the multiplayer cheating problem is not adhering to the golden rule of server security: Never Trust the Client
    
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  - cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It is perfectly possible to run anti-cheat that are roughly as good (or as bad, as it often turns out) without full admin privilege and running as kernel-level drivers. Coupled with server-side validation, which seems to be a dying breed, you’d also weed out a ton of cheaters while missing the most motivated of them.
    
    As someone who lurks around in different communities (to some extent; Steam forums, reddit, lemmy, mastodon, and a few game-centered discord servers), the issue is not much against anti-cheat for online play. It’s the nature of these piece of software that is the issue. It would not be the same if the anti-cheat was also forced on solo gameplay, but it is not the case here.
    
    (bonus points for systems that allow playing on non-protected servers, but that’s asking a bit too much from some publishers I suppose)
    
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  - barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s not even popular on Lemmy. People are fine with the anti-cheat. They draw the line at enforced third-party accounts, though, which is commendable.
    
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- emax_gomax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I legitimately avoided rockstar for years because they force you to use their store even when you buy on steam. I still haven’t played rdr2, despite critical acclaim. I finally caved and got GTAV on sale cause I realised none of this shit works. Consumers using purchasing power to enforce standards is a losing battle. The storefronts or legislators need to enforce this shit. I think it should be valve. They have the market position and userbase to actually succeed or at the very least convince publishers to not break shit that was already working fine.
  
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  - Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Name one war which was ever fought on a single battlefield.
    
    Yes, we should be pushing for both regulatory changes and changes on platforms like Steam, but we should also being doing our part.
    
    If there is anything I’ve learned over time it is that nobody is coming to save you. Ever. If you are holding out for somehow to swoop in and make things better, you will be waiting forever. Either we do it ourselves, or it doesn’t get done.
    
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SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Can’t release a sequal or single player update in a decade - can impose cheat engines. Something about a surprised pikachu

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Buttons@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Couldn’t we avoid all this by giving players the option to host and moderate their own servers?

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- x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Ownership of purchased goods?
  
  Are you crazy???
  
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- explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That would lose a ton of profits!
  
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- SSJMarx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Tons of the problems of modern day matchmaking could be solved by this, but if players are running their own servers then they can just have their server give them the items they want, which means no more premium currency purchases for R$.
  
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- lowdude@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Things like FiveM exist, which is exactly that. I’m not sure if that is at all affected by the anticheat though, I didn’t read the article.
  
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  - Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I sure hope not cause GTA Online is trash if you want to do anything other than Free Mode. I got so sick and tired of all the loading screens, disconnects, and empty lobbies. Even when they apparently “fixed” the loading issue, all it did was speed up the connection Free Mode. Hosting/joining a mission still takes ages and nobody ever joins any of my games so I gave up and went to FiveM full-time. If that gets shut down by anti-cheat then I’m going back to GTA IV. Cops N’ Crooks is more fun than anything GTA Online has to offer, anyway.
    
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  - bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’ve heard rockstar recruited fivem developers
    
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  - scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Rockstar has apparently bought FiveM.
    
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MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Articles a joke since it doesn’t mention that the people pissed off are the linux players. Not the cheaters but the linux users.

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- fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s why one never pisses off a Linux user.
  
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indomara@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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I bought Red Dead Redemption for myself and three friends, super excited about the game, the lore. I had never spent that much money on a game.

We all played through the single player tutorial, and finally into the open world. We meet up and begin exploring and trying to complete quests when suddenly one of us just … drops dead.

Then another is hit by a meteor and caught on fire?

I am thrown up into the sky.

An alien ship?! Appears and messes with us for a while. I try begging in pub chat for the hacker to please leave us so we can play, which seems to goad them further. This continued for an hour.

A quick look around the internet told us that this was par for the course for RDR and GTA and Rockstar couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything about it.

We ended up refunding all the games through steam. Sad times.

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- sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Firstly, anyone who told you RDRO is not utterly plauged with all sorts of cheaters using trainers and all kinds of cheats is full of crap, at least for PC.
  
  The standard strategy you basically have to employ is that whenever you see something nonsense like that happen is you have to jump to another instance/lobby. Depending on your luck, you may have to do this every 15 to 60 minutes aaaand some cheats allow the cheater to follow you to your new lobby.
  
  Secondly…
  
  A few years back I was in RDRO and was attacked by a cheater.
  
  I had a broke ass level 15ish character with the just a few of the least expensive guns.
  
  They had infinite ammo. Teleport hopping. Spawned 10 additional NPCs versions of themselves, then of my character, then zombies.
  
  I killed them all. Died over and over again, kept killing them.
  
  Then the cheater began spawning gigantic props like boats attached to their character, which rotated and hit with physics force when they rotated, which they could shoot out of but I could not shoot into.
  
  But uh, I managed to juke my way through cracks in the collision mesh, then shoot him.
  
  He got tired of this at some point… and just turned himself invisible.
  
  But, by this point I’d been killed enough times that I’d managed to get him showing up on my radar.
  
  I’d by then long since run out of ammo… and began stalking him with just a knife and lasso, sometimes the running tackle with the lasso that leads into a hogtie, other times actually managing to sneak up behind him.
  
  After an hour and a half of this, he started slipping up, and I could see him attempting to flee me, teleport half a klik away and just stand there for 30 seconds, then move a bit, then pause again, presumably fiddling around in his menus.
  
  I killed him a few more times in this state, and he quit, he left.
  
  … I would have just jumped to another instance if he had not killed my horse.
  
  Do not fuck with a man’s horse lol.
  
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    Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
    
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OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This is actually really effective as a form of protest. From a business perspective, Rockstar probably won’t roll anticheat back, but future companies will assess it as part of the risk when looking to add AC

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Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Bitchy cheaters throwing a hissy that they can’t keep creating an unfair advantage for themselves in an online environment. I hope their mothers take away their internet connection for the month.

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- KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Probably a few Linux/Steam Deck players pissed that Rockstar just nuked their ability to play without warning or reason as well.
  
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- cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattlEye
  
  Interacts with the game at the kernel level.
  
  Fuck cheaters, but also FUCK kernel level shit, it’s possible to make a good AC without fucking around in the kernel.
  
  I don’t even install third party Antivirus’ that hook into the kernel because of all the issues it causes. 80% of all BSODs I’ve traced back have always had a root cause because of some shit piece of software fucking around in the kernel. 15% is shitty drivers.
  
  Kernel AVs and ACs actually act like malware in of itself with the types of hooks and interactions it performs. Anything operating at the kernel level can basically see just about everything you or your computer is doing
  
  Fuck kernel level AC
  
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Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Sounds like it’s working

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where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That’s disgusting! Where do those criminals gather, so I could go an express my utter disappointment to them directly?

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- Toribor@corndog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Their mom’s basement, most likely.
  
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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Good.

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art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m not going to condone this, but also… haha.

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MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I really hope they don’t find a way to blame the linux community for this. Even if we hate kernel level anti cheat, I think most of us were happy with the refund from Valve lol

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Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
So a bunch of assholes who like to ruin everyone else’s fun are mad because they can’t be script kiddie cheaters anymore. So instead they found another way to run everyone else’s fun. Cool.

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Unpopular opinion…

Man, I wrote a whole WoT about this. Deleted it. Fuck the cheaters. I don’t know why it’s so hard to stop them. The kind of people that will DDoS a company for blocking them are the same ones that will cheat. No gold star for any honest players that DDoS, either. If there’s a server problem or a bad patch that prevents me from playing my first thought isn’t to DDoS the company and fuck up everyone else’s game in a fit of petty revenge too. That said, it’s sad that honest players are the only ones harmed after the cheat coders found their workaround so quickly.

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- viking@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s not what this is about, the article is simply garbage. They are enforcing a kernel level anti-cheating system that is incompatible with Linux (where no third party gets kernel access, and rightly so). This locks out all Linux players, including Steam Deck.
  
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PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The most confusing part about this is that people are still playing GTA Online. Why…?

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Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
As someone who is pretty old and is a crap gamer - well firstly I only play single player so I guess it wouldn’t effect me. But what’s the problem with anti cheat? Aside from it being code you don’t want on your machine. I dunno, I don’t get why people cheat. Isn’t it a better feeling when you just play and get good?

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Cyberflunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t play these games or really any game that needs anti cheat. What’s the controversy? I assume the anti cheat is awful?

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ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
As it should be. Rockstar Games deserves nothing less.

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Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m conflicted here

On one hand, I play GTA Online, and the amount of hackers is getting out of hand. Most are chill, some are extremely annoying and blow up everyone in the lobby with 800 million explosions a second. In this case, I’m annoyed that I can’t play it and glad there’s anti cheat.

On the other hand, I didn’t realize that EAC would prevent Linux users from playing entirely. I’m not a Linux user (yet) myself, but that really sucks. Also, rockstar is extremely predatory with the shark cards (it was worse with Red Dead Online!) so they do kinda deserve it as some form of karma for being terrible

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polle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Iam out of the loop. What kind of cheats are available in gta online?

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Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
At least you can turn it off in singleplayer and still use your mods there. That’s a pretty important consideration imho.

How do those community servers for RP work? Do they require mods? Do they still work?

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Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Rockstar makes such weird choices considering how passionate their fans are.

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SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ll just play it on Xbox 360…or PS3…or PS4…or Xbox one…or PS5…or Xbox S/X…or Windows…wait is this Skyrim or GTA?

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Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
there is no reason you have to run intrusive anticheat just to play your favourite mutliplayer game it can sotp hackers but you will force people on the most trash os ever windows

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flashgnash@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
They’re kinda proving rockstar’s point, I am fairly sure the venn diagram of “protesters” and cheaters is more or less a circle

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Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Imagine being such a butthurt little pussy that you DDoS a video game because you’re not allowed to cheat it.

Outside of the political spectrum, I cannot imagine a more pathetic type of person.

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