Yep.
I would argue those people are extremely silly, but apparently some people just literally do not value privacy, data security, at all.
I guess we'll see how well that works out with fascists running the show now, surely they'll only go after the bad ~~immigrants~~ gamers!
Are you maybe a woman who had to stop using their period tracker app?
A trans person who had the audacity to exist, while being trans?
... Do you play video games on the same PC you do everything else on?
To the first chunk:
I mean yeah, thats why I said longest lived, not 'most popular'.
But I am glad you agree that... VAC is reasonable, and works pretty darn well.
But this leads into Part 2...
Why does VAC work pretty darn well?
Beyond the technicals of the methods of AC...
Because if you fuckup bad enough, your entire Steam Library can be deleted.
Steam is a platform.
Every single other major company that is trying to force Kernel AC on the PC market is acting as if they do, or should just also be the de facto platform, as they are on consoles.
Yep, cheat on Xbox or PS and your account can get banned there too... but a PC is more than a gaming console, has a lot more private stuff on it than one, typically.
Valve are PC natives so they never pushed for Kernel AC.
They just allow, and now warn you about Kernel AC from other mega publishers on their platform, and these other game publishers.
Their whole thing is that they want you to use their platform instead of Steam. They've pretty much all done it at this point, at least tried... Ubisoft, Rockstar, MSFT/GFWL, ActBlizz (now technically MSFT but w/e), etc etc etc
And they want to force Kernel AC down your throat on your PC as well as consoles... because it gives them more data, which they can use themselves, and sell to data brokers.
... Anyway, the funniest part?
EAC and BattleEye have offered full support to game devs to get their AC working on linux via Proton... for 3 to 4 years now.
It comes with their licensing agreements.
But management almost never cares to tell development to actually use this support thst they are already paying for!
... Because they get lots of money from MSFT, and MSFT hates Linux.
Also, if you go on areweanticheatyet ... you can see that almost every single AC system of any kind, in the last 10 years... has at least one game that showcases it working on Linux.
This means that it is provably, entirely possible to get nearly all AC systems working on Linux, as some game dev team has done this.
Its just that most game dev teams, under most management... are not directed to.
There is no real technical reason why AC cannot be made to work in a satisfactory way on Linux.
At best, it is dev/management laziness/nonprioritization, at worst, it is publishers not wanting to upset MSFT, or still pursuing their idea of what should be normalized in terms of a gaming distribution platform, and the backend business side of profiting from dataharvesting.
All this does is literally reward everyone who spams cheating reports against the entire server.
Thats the neat part, it doesn't!
What does burst, instead, is the average net worth of Americans / Households.
We are at something like 10 to 15 % of Americans with a negative net worth right now, more debt than wealth.
So, welcome to the semi-formal birth of the debt slave social caste!
Ain't nobody working the farms no more, and indentured servitude is explicitly legal in the US as punishment for a crime.
If your crime is avoiding debt collectors long enough that they file a lawsuit against you, and you don't show up to court, well now you have an active arrest warrant.
And soon, probably also a non voluntary vacation to a semi-local farm.
Ahem, would you believe... budget cuts, rofl?
Realignment of resources with strategic outlook?
Uh... fuck you you're fired, hahaha!
Yeah I mean its not like Valve has been using a combination of server side and client side game file only validation to do AC for Counter Strike for 20 years or anything.
Yep yep yep, the whole industry uses Kernel AC, other than the devs of the longest running competetive FPS franchise ever, yep yep yep!
I offer:
0.2% more effective detection of cheaters (theoretical)
You offer:
Full and total access to every single file on your computer, all of its hardware, and all connected devices, via kernel level access.
Do you accept?
Yep.
Things were better when private servers had actual mods and admins, they acted more like pubs where you could go see the regulars, actually form a community.
I am still baffled that anyone thinks that Kernel AC is any kind of effective at stopping hacks, people have been literally making a living off of defeating it, and selling those hacks / methods for almost a decade now...
But nope, still got hordes of idiot gamers who think they work, think they're necessary, think they can't be spoofed.
I mean, I'd say two hands and one mouth, hahahah!