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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

As someone who is pretty old and is a crap gamer - well firstly I only play single player so I guess it wouldn't effect me. But what's the problem with anti cheat? Aside from it being code you don't want on your machine. I dunno, I don't get why people cheat. Isn't it a better feeling when you just play and get good?

Edit - I'm not defending rockstar btw. Don't know the politics here. In fact last game I enjoyed was vice city on the PS2. I'm trying to hey caught up on everything I missed. But yeah, what's the problem with anti cheat?

[–] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 8 points 10 months ago

I think the problem is implementation. it was constantly a top 10 game on steam for steam deck users, and now they can't play online because rockstar decides to not configure the game to support Linux. I think thats the issue lol

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