Mildly Infuriating

Nice of Steam to warn you though.

Just play an indie game, these games will only enshittify more and more.

What game is it? Name and shame.

Those "features" are not about security. They're about uniquely identifying the system without using, "personally identifiable information".

I just won't play such games. Simple as.

Yeah I dont need to play any game that requires me to allow spyware.

Its gonna be really funny in a few years when we learn that TPM2 / Windows' Specific Implementation of SecureBoot has a backdoor for the NSA, just like how the Kinect did.

https://www.cinemablend.com/games/Xbox-Kinect-NSA-Spying-Was-Done-Consent-Claims-Microsoft-60970.html

And uh, no, it doesn't matter if this happens intentionally via collaboration, or not, through incompetence.

Welp, vote with your wallet. Money is the only thing these companies understand.

Lmfao at this one dude literally losing his shit and defending this repeatedly in the comments like a fucking Microsoft white knight

I hate the idea of software/hardware that can prove that the user does not have control over it so much

That's why even I was on Windows, I would avoid Kernel level anticheat.
I know anticheat is important but I wish there was ways to prevent cheaters without running stuff in lower rings.

What game is this? so I know what company to never buy from again.

Just dont fucking play those games. Simple.

Welp, doesn't run in proton. Next on the list...

I told you so. You called me paranoid. I said so. Now lookatyou.

That's what's pissing me off. People still cheat. It's not that they have these invasive and stupid ways of anti cheats, but at least they work.

Way I see it, there’s two ways to address the “cheating” issue in multiplayer online games.

First, let’s establish that game cheats typically involve using another application to modify the game’s running code while it is loaded in memory.

Historically, anti-cheat has largely taken a “reactive” approach. Try to detect the hook / modification taking place, ban the player if it is detected. These systems and bans were often circumvented. There are entire games that I stopped playing because the experience was ruined for me - GTA Online and the late stages of Titanfall 2 are standouts in my mind.

With how the Windows device security landscape has changed In the 2020s (MacOS has had something similar for ages), there’s now the option of taking a “proactive” approach by preventing application memory from being tapped in the first place. These technologies, notably Secure Boot and TPM, help mitigate rootkits and malware that might steal sensitive information from application memory, as well as paving the way for other protection measures like disk encryption.

And that’s the main part they’re interested in - by ensuring the entire process up through the kernel cannot be tampered with, the anti-cheat is going to be highly effective at pre-empting anyone from attempting the cheat to begin with.

It really sucks that, in the curent landscape, that means there are a handful of games that I can’t play on my Linux devices. But it also makes sense - Proton runs with many layers beneath it, which would make it trivial to tamper with memory and engage in cheating.

I’m hopeful that we’ll someday see a solution that opens up the opportunity for the same degree of integrity protection in Linux so that anyone can enjoy any game on the operating system of their choosing.

Regardless of what others have to say about EA or the franchise (and boy do they have their issues), Battlefield has always been a beloved series for me. I’m having a blast in Battlefield 6 and I have yet to encounter any cheaters. Previous entries in the series would see me hopping to a new server whenever I encountered one or, on some occasions, ending my play session out of frustration. Anecdotally, the cheating felt much more prevalent before.

I have a lot less time to game than I used to, so that time is sacred to me. While I’d obviously prefer another way, maintaining a Windows system and enabling two BIOS settings (well, leaving them enabled - they’re on by default) has been worth it for me.