Technology

59712 readers

5740 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

845

Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

261 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Rockstar Games' servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 304 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (26 children)

According to Mutahar:

The Anti Cheat has already been bypassed by a free cheat menu on Windows.
He's fairly sure he has figured out some kind of way to temporarily bypass (as in, it'll probably get caught in a few weeks) the linux block by some kind of custom virtualization method (requiring only one GPU) that he says he may explain in detail at some point.

In general, he's done with playing GTO.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eMSagozpKPs&pp=ygUSbXV0YWhhciBndGEgb25saW5l

But yeah, obligatory reminder for BattleEye and EasyAntiCheat games that refuse to allow linux play:

All these game devs have to do is flip a switch, click a few options in their developer portals, to allow BattleEye or EAC to work on linux, through Proton.

And its been that way for 3 years, since 2021.

There is literally no reason for games that use these services to not work on linux, the devs just don't fucking care.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Some devs sure do fear linux users.

[+] [email protected] -37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

I've heard devs say that Linux users come up with something like 90% of the bug reports. They're often bugs that only affect Linux,so you've got, say 10% to the player base reporting 90% of the issues, and about 85% of those issues only affect the 10% of the player base.

Simply from an economics standpoint it doesn't make sense to spend that much resources on such a small percentage of the player population. Additionally about half of those Linux users do have Windows computers, that they are prepared to buy your game on, if that's the only option. So again it makes no financial sense to actually support Linux.

As far as the studios see it they are taking a 5% cut in profits, in order to reduce workload by 85% - seems like a good deal.

I can't even really argue with that, because they make a good point. Indie devs have it even more difficult because they often have much smaller teams, and really can't handle the workloads that Linux users would give them.

[+] Wooki 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[deleted]

[+] [email protected] -21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not confused what they said. That's what they said, now what they said may be wrong, but I'm not confused about what they said.

However what I have been told is that actually that's not necessarily the case. Because the reporting issues that only affect Linux operating systems so most of the user base are not actually benefiting from the reports.

Wisdom is that they would submit better quality tickets and they do but since most of them are disproportionately Linux limited is not really as much of an advantage as you would think.