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It is really ridiculous that we’ve allowed all this kernel level spyware bullshit in the interest of something so frivolous as video game fairness. Matchmaking
by bee_rider 2y ago
It is really ridiculous that we’ve allowed all this kernel level spyware bullshit in the interest of something so frivolous as video game fairness.
Matchmaking seemed like a neat idea in, like, 2007. In retrospect, it has damaged the industry substantially. All the oxygen has been sucked out of the community server space, etiquette is non-existent, and the aforementioned spyware.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoI refuse to buy a ton of games because they are hot garbage these days. Its pretty obvious what gamers want and they will shower their money at it. Look at Oblivion remastered. It had bare minimum marketing if you can even claim it had any marketing.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoTbf, a part of the issues causing since rampant cheating comes from the fact that those Riot games are indeed "what gamers want". There's definitely a divide in community between single player darlings like BGS's output and these "free" competitive service games like League or Apex or whatnot.
- giancarlostoro 2y agoMy point being, a lot of games seem to disable Linux due to cheating concerns. They get none of my money. Rust can sit there and gather rust in my steam library until the end of time.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoOkay. I sympathize but you're the literal 1% of the target market for most games. Devs will take that risk.
- unclad5968 2y agoThen don't play those video games. Seems simple to me. Community servers are doing fine in games where that makes sense, Minecraft for example. Counter strike has community servers too and people cheat there all the time.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoI don't and won't. But it seems fair to miss the old days of your mall and board game shop in response to the torn down remains you abandoned.
- squigz 2y agoExcept it's not a matter of community servers not being supported in games "because it doesn't make sense" - there are plenty of games where private community servers would be beneficial, but all we get is online matchmaking that gets shut down when the company decides it's done. Pretty unfair to paint this as the users choice when the companies are taking our choices away.
- snkzxbs 2y agoIf you think fairness in videogame competitions is frivolous then do not participate in them. Is it frivolous to not want dopers in cycling competitions?
- ndriscoll 2y agoAs someone who doesn't participate in those, your comparison seems poor to me. Like my mom asked a while back if I'd get into valorant with her and my sister on weekends sometime, but I'm not going to dual boot or buy another computer just for this game. Why do they require rootkits for casual play? It'd be like bicycle manufacturers subjecting you to drug tests and access to random home inspections to ride around your neighborhood. If you need to protect competitive play, keep it to actual competitions/make it optional for free play. I'm not giving you unrestricted access to my brokerage account, all of my files, all of my emails/text messages, etc. (which root access on my computer has) so you can prevent cheating in a Sunday night video game.
- snkzxbs 2y agoThat’s fair. Don’t play then. In the meantime the overwhelming majority of us will enjoy the game with a minimal amount of cheaters, which is what we desire.
- wrren 2y agoYou don't need a driver to read that kind of data anyway, so your concerns are moot. Once you install any application on your PC, there's not a lot that it can't access.
- ndriscoll 2y agoIt's super easy to run games as a user without access to important data. It's possible you could make that completely seamless with bwrap and gamescope for an embedded session, but I haven't looked much into that. Of course no security tools work if the game is root.
- bee_rider 2y ago