If my windows PC doesn't allow me root access, why is it then allowing EA root access?
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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Well, I bought the game so i own it (IP shills can shut it). If it stops working on my linux machine, I will pirate it. And I will start distributing it to others who bought it but cant play it. Which is probably even legal where I live due to consumer protection laws.
EA exec: I haven't shot us in the foot much lately, I think it's time we did some more of that.
Heck no am I installing EA's proprietary rootkit! There're literally viruses that have less power than that
That's so cool. I love that.Thanks EA ☺️ This will definitely make the game not a boring mess. You should do same with all your games. Even Sims 4. Cripple Linux compatibility and kill my performance so that we can stop those evil pirates.
/s in case it's not obvious
I would be fine just playing Bad Company 2 on community servers if that is an option. Haven't bought a Battlefield game since. I don't see that trend changing any time soon.
just makes me want to cheat, on a goody2shoes windows machine. just to prove them wrong.
As long as they don't touch BF1 and earlier I'm still fine.
Still think server side anti cheat is the ONLY way to combat cheaters at this point. All client side efforts (even kernel level) have been bypassed and hardware cheating devices running outside of the computer are becoming VERY common.
I don't think they care, they just want to siphon your data freely given.
Right? Security don't mean shit to physical possession.
Server side AC works well enough but as league demonstrates, it's not a silver bullet.
League itself isn't either.
I don't know how it is now, but when I played league in the beta and for 4 years afterwards, I only ever saw 1 cheater.
Player toxicity was off the damn charts, but still not much of a cheating problem. Might be very different now though.
League has a much bigger problem with smurfs and toxic behaviour than it does cheaters to be fair. Adding kernel anticheat to it is strange. There's lots of account buying, sharing, win trading etc that is more prevalent and something vanguard cant fix, but Riot have never been good at focusing their efforts.
Kernel level AC has got to go, any sort of invasive AC does.
That we totally agree on.
Just saying security/privacy issues aside these types of anti cheat don't actually help as much as some people hope in combatting cheaters.
Yup. But its the latest 'buzzword' in anti-cheat, so we keep getting more of them instead of time being spent developing other potential solutions.
glad im not playing anymore at battlefield since the 3. And didnt crack on the sold on steam for 2042.
2142 and 2 will always be in the heart though,
I loved 2142, 3, 4, and Bad Company 2. Everything afterwards has been a nope from me.
Didn't try the 4, and I don't even remember the maps of bc2. Just I didn't like them. The gameplay was different too and the sensations if I'm not wrong (crouch, run etc)
BC2 only had a couple of good maps. but they were fantastic. Port Valdez in Rush mode was the shit.
I played V a lot, great game tbh.
Like the 3 ? Same spirit ?
I ask for real XD. Do they have battlepass, seasons, meta weapons and this kind of Sh*** ?
That's simple curiosity of course, now I've seen this news, inreallt can't crack anymore 😂😂😅
I don't think I can ever get enjoyment out of a battlefield game again after 3, I don't know if the times were different or the game itself was just that fun to play, I did get the new one in hopes of having that feeling again but it doesn't feel like battlefield anymore.
We just knew before the "bad company's title" and even one on cartoon style (heroes ?🤔). So the 3 was so welcome in a way.
Destruction of buildings but not all the structures sometimes. Metro !! Same spirit of the 2 (speaking about infantry maps, dont remember the vehicles) but with the new "tech".
Mechanics were not too different as before. But no glitching anymore. Special mention of the crouch and up indefinitely on 2142.😂😂.
There's still plenty of BF3 servers popping. Unfortunately not a lot of rush. Rush made that game, but for some reason people want to play conquest on it instead...
Well Maybe its time to go play vehicles in it 😅
But don’t just trust our word on this. We’ve also worked with independent, 3rd party security and privacy assessors to validate EA anticheat does not degrade the security posture of your PC and to ensure strict data privacy boundaries.
Uhm this is just their word that they worked with independent 3rd party security and privacy assessors. They should name those so that one can verify their word.
This is like having a random dude living in your walls, peeping at you through your vents. And when you call the police they say, "no need to worry, we have confirmed that there is indeed a random dude living in your walls".
I belive its secure because until now noone found an exploit in multiplayer games with anti-cheats yet and used it to install cheats during the finals of an E-Sports tornament or something.
In my opinion, the risk is vulnerabilities in their driver. Threat actors love a signed driver that runs at a level like this. Saw Genshin Impact’s driver in an incident one time.
And even if everything they say is true, just because no vulnerabilities were found doesn't mean there aren't any. Or that there won't be any in the future. Or that EA won't be using it for bullshit.