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Helldivers 2 does the same thing. If this continues it will be extremely advisable to move any non-gaming use-cases to a different computer as you have no idea what the "anti-cheat" is doing with that level of authority over your computer.
Or just dont buy those games.
That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.
This is pretty much what I’m afraid of. Even my knowledgeable friends dismissed the implications of a root kit so they could play Helldivers. Like 2 months later and they’re sick of it, and the damage is done. That game was a massive success despite what should have stopped everyone in their tracks.
That's why piracy must continue, pirates cracking can just extend to pulling those pesky anticheats out of the single player games.
I think that's the point that I start just eating the performance hit and running those games in sandboxed VMs where possible
I play HD2 under proton. Even if there is a rootkit, it's sandboxed.
Proton is not actually sandboxed the way an actual container is.
A) if the program running in proton was given root access in some way, say by tricking people into entering their root password for a claimed update, it would have complete normal control of your entire system just like normal.
B)apps running in proton still have access to the regular file system.
Wine isn't an emulator or a vm.
Wait. WINE is not an emulator?! Why didn't anyone try to tell me? 😂