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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

While I haven't looked into this particular anti-cheat; they frequently prevent Linux users from playing altogether, ban users due to false positives, and sometimes even gain/require access to data entirely unrelated to gaming, such as your personal documents or even browser data (cookies, history, passwords/tokens, etc) as many of them contain Rootkits

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

On top of that they dont really seem to actually stop cheating. Im sure they reduce it but games with anti cheat still deal with a ton of cheaters

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