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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

if they have old systems that no longer receive BIOS updates

You just went the Microsoft route there: “their system is too old and doesn’t have TPM, they need a new system to stay secure”

Or the BF6 route “you need to have Secure Boot enabled to play our game”

This just creates more e-waste and doesn’t really solve the problem as their user base will happily follow them for much longer than you’d probably think.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think they were being facetious.

The point was that alienating their main player base this way will lead to the demise of companies that use kernel level anti-cheat and those companies will deserve it because they did it to themselves.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair point. Tone was hard to read

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

sorry, i’ll use italic next time

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

It was very clearly a combination of sarcasm and dark humor.