You literally posted the answer to your question. Here is an expansion of the details.

Doesn’t the screenshot you posted explain what’s going on?

• Did the EULA change? ✅
• Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do? ❌
• Do Take Two games contain code to report telemetry and user information(including application/system activity) to a home server? ✅
• Is this EULA change extraordinary and particularly egregious in comparison to others that most people have probably already agreed to? ❌(IMO)
• Are people riled up because e a YouTube video went a little viral and now they’re all playing telephone to the point where it’s now gotten to the point of random dumdums are review booming a 13 year old game claiming it’s turned into literal spyware? ✅(again, IMO)
• Should you be surprised by any of this if you’ve been even remotely paying attention for any period of the last 30-40 years? ❌
• Do we need more than just angry idiots in the battle against corpatocracy? ✅

We should be done coddling the late comers at this point. Yes welcome them and accept them, but at a certain point your level of ignorance became a detriment to your community and you should be made aware of that fact.

That. The content of the screenshot you posted. That is what's going on.

Pirates are winning over my empathy.

I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! ""FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!"

🏴‍☠️ is free and without shenanigans.

I just don't understand anticheat or copy protection on PvE games. I can understand it if you don't want to play against a cheater, but this is a cooperative shooter.

I sometimes wonder what will happen when EAC, that has root access to millions of PCs, gets compromised or has grunty employee and pushes malicious update

A government that cares for is people would ban this shit and procecute any company trying to find ways around it.

I checked the Steam depots. It seems the game files haven’t been updated since 2022. All that seems to have changed is some license agreement in February. Seems to be a thing across take two games, and not specific to borderlands 2.

Basically nothing has changed in real terms for this game. Maybe borderlands 4 might have draconian DRM, who knows.

Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?

the game's store page doesn't mention that it requires root access, like it does for some other games. am i missing something?

edit: the words "root" and "level" (ctrl+f'd each one separately) don't appear anywhere in the EULA. "access" shows up in a couple spots that definitely are NOT talking about root level access. i'm all about outrage over enshittification, but so far this sounds like bullshit

I only play AAA games on GeForce Now (cloud). If the game can't run on my Linux system or on the cloud, I ain't touching it. Also, there are so many wonderful games that do not require a colonoscopy into your personal data to be played.

They added spyware to it.

Here is excerpt from the tos, shared by user in steam reviews of the game.

I wouldnt touch anything this company has produced.

Ok so that explains the bad reviews, but why is steam giving the game away for free? Also BL3 is heavily discounted

I'm assuming the post is actually about DRM operating at ring 0. That's not really root level though. That's kernel level. Root is still operating in user-mode and politely asking the kernel to interact with hardware.