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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 171 points 3 weeks ago

"""gamers""" aren't a monolith

Some people clearly care bc they are currently discussing it

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 18 points 3 weeks ago

Well to be fair, we're like 1% of all gamers. Most gamers don't give a flying fuck and will gladly buy these products anyway. So the companies don't really have much incentive to give a shit.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

That's why it's a big disturbing banner where most gamers don't understand the text but know that big disturbing banner is bad. Will it affect the sales? Not at all. But it will raise the problem(mostly Linux anticheat) to the higher standing people in the gaming companies than before because now they require those top level managers to make a decision is it big disturbing banner or Linux anticheat.

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

I highly doubt this will do anything at all to sales. But I'm just guessing. Maybe it will. Hopefully! But I still applaud the change by Valve. I think it's great.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think the point is to do anything on sales. Valve profit from sales. It's to raise the problem so now the managers have to decide on a scale how much they abuse the players. Before it wasn't even a problem, now it's Valve: "maybe you shouldn't wink wink"

[-] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Well yea, I don't think Valve wants to nuke their own sales, lol. I think they don't want any devs doing any funny business and abusing anti cheat. That's my guess.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Another “to be fair” - what do y’all reckon is the proportion of gamers who could define kernel? (not rhetorical)

Edit: maybe not as good as a question as how many have any opinion on kernel-level anticheat, since you don’t need to be able to define kernel to be against the anti-cheat if you’ve heard it slows down games