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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
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Ooh and it's a giant yellow banner you probably won't miss, and not some two-shades-ligher-than-the-background nonsense.
Good job, Valve.
If only they let you filter out games from being seen on your store page or showing up in recommendations using this as a criteria.
Gamers don’t care
If Valve was against this then they would block them from their store. This is avoiding legal consequences
"""gamers""" aren't a monolith
Some people clearly care bc they are currently discussing it
See, you don't understand. /s
Nothing ever matters, and nothing ever happens.
Another “to be fair” - what do y’all reckon is the proportion of gamers who could define kernel? (not rhetorical)
Edit: maybe not as good as a question as how many have any opinion on kernel-level anticheat, since you don’t need to be able to define kernel to be against the anti-cheat if you’ve heard it slows down games
“””gamers””” aren’t a monolith
That’s why some people discussing it aren’t going to do anything to dissuade the practice
Games have been buried in negative reviews for less. We can't tell in advance.
But implying you know, and can speak for all people who play games is just bafflingly ignorant and conceited.
And people not discussing is better how?
That's fair: most probably don't.
I appreciate a 'this won't work in Linux no matter what you do' banner on things, though.
I've been using some browser plugins for Steam that add ProtonDB information to each Store page, it's a useful thing to have. It may even make sense to leave it as a plugin, since many Windows users won't care.
You speak for an entire demographic. How do you get that role?
Observation
Not enough observation to read this room aye.
I don’t care what the minority of people here say
The most popular games use kernel anti cheat, kids think cheating is bad. And very few people even know what a kernel is, they will just think it means “cheating is impossible” even though it doesn’t do that at all
You care enough to reply again.
It would be rude not to reply to someone who is as curious as you
Fair enough.
For what it’s worth if you’re happy with anti-cheat at the kernel level then crack on. If I don’t trust corporations with that level of access then that’s also fine.
This isn’t something I would ever install in my system and the two games I play Minecraft and Factorio both don’t have this issue so I’m not missing out by not playing COD 8928384 or whatever popular games use this.
I'm a gamer, and absolutely fuck these damn things. I still haven't bought helldivers 2 yet. I refuse to compromise my system for their issues.
If kernel level AC is a concern, you can play the game on Linux where "kernel" level AC runs at user level thru Wine