Irrelevant to me personally but I’d like to see it cause more windows users to jump ship
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Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support
(thisweekinvideogames.com)
TBH, I kinda get the feeling that's what most of the hype surrounding the Machine is. People hoping it sells well, but not necessarily people planning to buy one for themselves.
I jokingly told a few redditors that they are doing A LOT of the marketing work for the Steam machine. They didn't like that at all, lol.
lol, they should be proud to champion what valve is doing for the Linux world
That being said I actually don’t have a desktop and would totally buy a steam machine if the price is right
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It kind of bothers me that people are putting the responsibility on valve for this, when the companies themselves have purposefully not enabled compatibility in most cases.
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This could be huge. I hope they find a decent middle ground.
They've worked on anti cheat support before. It still depends on the devs actually activating that support. That will always be the case whatever they do.
Please make this optional. I'd rather not have any third party kernel modules mucking around in my OS. I don't use anything the requires this.
Well yeah of course it's optional already. If you don't want that then you just don't buy those games.
Except people are going to still buy those games, still complain for something to be done and when the potential resolution is there, they'll go "I DON'T WANT IT!" and just cycle through.
Fuck sakes, some people...
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It is optional what games you purchase and install
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Are they working on giving the worst and most useless companies kernel level access to my pc?
Perhaps. Of course, if you were able to type that sentence out, it also means you know what to avoid if that's important to you. I will be, because it's important to me, too.
On the one hand, I don't give a fuck about anti-cheat, because games using the kernel-level version tend to be giant multiplayer cesspools of little value.
On the other hand, I want Windows to lose the war.
I hope Valve can find the balance between these two extremes.
I have this feeling that even if valve makes it work, rootkit anticheat devs will push updates that intentionally make it not work again. Probably with more claims like the majority of cheaters being linux users
If you'd read the article, Valve says they're working with anticheat devs to come up with a solution together. This can only happen with their cooperation, if Valve somehow could bypass it on their own that would represent a vulnerability that should and would get patched.
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Still not going to convince some stubborn hold outs like the rust guy. Nothing will ever convince them.
The market will - and it'd be foolish to underestimate the forces valve will spark by making viable alternatives mass market.
I wouldn't expect the Machine to be any more popular than the Deck, which already wasn't enough to convince holdouts. In fact I would bet the Machine will sell much less than the Deck, since that had a more unique niche carved out for it.
I think the hope isn't that "maybe this will be big enough", but "maybe together they'll be big enough". Who knows, though. It got a lot of hype on reveal but people are fickle sometimes.
I would not be surprised if the work they're doing here would be compatible with the Deck. It was just less of a priority for a handheld than a living room machine.
If devs want to support one, it'll be no problem to support the other. But I doubt devs who already refused to support one will suddenly change their minds.
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Here’s aiming to be hopeful…
I remember back when playing DRM video in a web browser on an open source operating system seemed like a worrying impossibility. Many sites stayed stuck on closed-source flash players for that reason alone. It was a while before we ended up with this solution I only partly understand - where the DRM decoding is handled through some kind of trusted block, that generally doesn’t have full OS control?
Do you get full HD video from streaming services these days? Last I checked, the best of them only top out at 720p without Windows.
Yeah I get 4k with Firefox on cachyOS
Interesting. Did this happen recently? When all of the streaming services starting raising prices, I started cancelling. Which ones give you full HD? Do you need to go out of your way to get there, or will regular old Firefox do the trick? Does it need TPM enabled or anything like that? I was looking to re-up Amazon Prime in the very near future, but when watching on my web browser, a show like Vox Machina was just a blur factory, and it was easier to pirate the show than it was to stream it legitimately.
It affects only the most cancerous type of anticheat that's been bypassed for a decade and introduces huge risks to your PC - Kernel level anticheat. People should stop playing any game that has such anticheat.
I'm with you, but you've got a lot of people to convince. A lot. The people playing those games make up the majority of the market.
If Valve can make wireless vr AND fix windows only anticheat, both next year, I'm going to be 10 different kinds of happy. I would love to basically never need my W11 SSD ever again.
I consider it to be a function of when I grew up with video games and how my family restricted them broadly, but I have honestly never understood the appeal of competitive online games that require intense anti-cheat controls.
I grew up playing largely single player games, and the few online games I payed were limited to ones I played in private lobbies with friends i knew.
Any game that requires this level of policing for competitive play is an instant turn off for me. I realize I'm in the minority here, but I have no problem with a console that doesn't support kernel level anticheat- to the contrary i find it to be a huge advantage
I get what drove us here. When you find a game that speaks to you and it's got a ranked mode with good matchmaking, it's easy to get lost in match after match, and cheaters can take the wind out of your sails. My competitive games of choice are fighting games, which are mostly free of cheaters and this invasive anti-cheat, but I'll be bummed if it becomes the norm, because I won't participate in that.
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Surprised they (Denuvo, etc - not Valve) don't just hard require SELinux.
SELinux protects systems from bugs in software. Not against users with full root privileges using their own hardware.
But anti-cheat is mostly about false sense of security anyway.
I really hope it won't be a case of requiring a Steam Machine with SteamOS on there for this to work.
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