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

submitted 1 month 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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[-] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago

I bought Sea of Thieves about 5 years ago. Recently, they added kernal-level anticheat (which does precisely fuck-all to actually stop cheating). While that is annoying, I'm not particularly worried because the studio that makes that game is owned by Microsoft, and like all Microsoft products, it was banished to my windows partition with the rest of the spyware.

[-] MoonHawk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Well... kernel level software can access everything on your computer. That includes other partitions and unmounted drives

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that's something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)