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

submitted 3 days ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

On the other hand, I didn't realize that EAC would prevent Linux users from playing entirely.

For the most part any game that "won't run on linux" totally would if it wasn't for the anticheat not working (or being supported) on linux, that's usually the downfall. For instance Destiny runs fine, but if they see you're using linux they ban your acct because fuck you that's why. Tbf, even if the anticheat would work it's usually kernel level spyware that linux users mostly refuse to run, so eh.

[–] slaveOne@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I believe it's BattlEye, not EAC

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah it is, my bad! It's in the body of the post and I forgot lol

[–] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Also battle eye works (same with EAC) on Linux you just need to enable it