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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)

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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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[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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 BattlEye 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

Edit: EAC -> BattlEye

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago

As it should be. Rockstar Games deserves nothing less.

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months 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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[-] polle@feddit.org 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Iam out of the loop. What kind of cheats are available in gta online? Edit: or what was available.

[-] Khrux@ttrpg.network 7 points 9 months ago

The most common cheat is probably gaining money or experience, but there have always been pretty extensive mod menus for GTA Online with tools from invincibility to making your vehicles rainbow, to randomly causing other players to explode or setting hundreds of muggers on them.

In 2015ish, I used to cheat, other than getting rich, all I was interested in doing was making an indestructible chrome bus with smoke trails that I'd drive around picking up players in, to teleport us all to North Yankton and back like a tour guide.

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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 months 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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[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months 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?

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Rockstar makes such weird choices considering how passionate their fans are.

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Which ultimately makes being a passionate Rockstar fan a weirder and weirder choice.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They're kinda proving rockstar's point, I am fairly sure the venn diagram of "protesters" (ddosers) and cheaters is more or less a circle

[-] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 10 points 9 months ago

The actual cheaters completely bypassed the new anti-cheat in about 6 hours. They had to update their cheats a bit, but are otherwise essentially unaffected. Linux users, Steam Deck users, and people who don't want to give a single game full hardware access, are all affected. None of those can play GTA:Online anymore, unless they mod the game to bypass the anti-cheat, which can be seen as cheating in itself, and could result in a ban.

The ddos attacks are likely being orchestrated by a small group of people or even an individual, it probably does not represent the vast majority of affected users.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

If you were to treat cheaters as you may treat pirates, a service problem, then the overlap of Linux users and cheaters is a circle of unsatisfied users.

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