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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]

Instead, here's a link to the official post https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4547038620960934857

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

This is getting silly. Every time you bring this up, I'm going to bring up the fact that the only other person who was involved in that little spat was you. And now, you're the only one, because the other guy got on with his life, but you can't.

This was such a small event, but it seems to fucking define you to this day.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

I'm glad you've found the one place where dictatorial moderation and misuse of mod powers is okay, because you only saw it happen to one person. I'm not sure why you think you have some sort of gotcha point there.

The mastodon screenshot is all that is needed to prove that this guy was unfit from the start.

People like this should not receive benefits from the platform they tried to abuse. A simple copy paste of the evidence and information whenever it pops up in my feed is barely any effort.

Besides the fact I think that linking to the primary source of information is already more important than linking to someone's post about it.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Valve continues to do the minimum to keep it's users happy, and that's 100x better than than the industry standard. Tiny steps but in the right direction.

[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 day ago

Hopefully this encourages developers and publishers to re-evaluate kernel level anything.

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Sadly i don't think it has any impact. For example, for Riot games no one complained about Vanguard except Linux gamers.

[-] BearGun@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 day ago

Plenty of others complained, the difference was just that they could swallow the pill and keep playing. Linux players were just fucked.

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

True ! But now we have an excuse to play better games

[-] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I didnt buy Helldivers 2 because of it. Explained why to all my friends who kept trying to convince me to buy it. I didn’t convince them, they didn’t convince me… but hey I appreciate the warning in the future.

[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago

Funnily enough it was HD2 that finally convinced a few of my friends to hop on over the Linux

[-] Cashmere@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, i mean it's not useless to make it visible. It's a good news in the end.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Meanwhile hd2 runs just fine under Linux, without kernel fuckery.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a fantastic addition to the store page that I'm sure will cut down the number of refunds valve staff have to deal with. I wonder if publishers will complain about this transparency impacting their sales ...

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 19 points 1 day ago

I really hope they do complain, because that'd be great confirmation for anyone considering adding this shit that it does in fact impact sales.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

EA: complains 2 months later

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

This will make the boycott against the games that dont work on Linux easier.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Don't they already do that?

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