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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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[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

there is no reason you have to run intrusive anticheat just to play your favorite multiplayer game it can stop hackers but you will force people on the most trash os ever windows i love valves approach to vac but people say its not that good

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

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[-] MSids@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

At one point I had been playing GTA V online pretty consistently when I had a cheater start targeting me. It was pretty frustrating and after 30 minutes of that I gave up and closed down for the day. I shifted my attention to other games after that. I definitely get that they want to stop cheaters - cheaters ruin the fun for others. It's a shame that the new anti cheat has made it so that Steam Deck players are stuck unable to play online.

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[-] Soup@lemmy.cafe 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Imagine being such a butthurt little pussy that you DDoS a video game because you’re not allowed to cheat it or play it.

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

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[-] prettydarknwild@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

i never liked the online to begin with so, x

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