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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't play these games or really any game that needs anti cheat. What's the controversy? I assume the anti cheat is awful?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While I haven't looked into this particular anti-cheat; they frequently prevent Linux users from playing altogether, ban users due to false positives, and sometimes even gain/require access to data entirely unrelated to gaming, such as your personal documents or even browser data (cookies, history, passwords/tokens, etc) as many of them contain Rootkits

[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

On top of that they dont really seem to actually stop cheating. Im sure they reduce it but games with anti cheat still deal with a ton of cheaters

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seriously, personal documents? What in the ever loving fuck. Jeez, no I don't want to play your game so bad I need to prove it with a passport.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, they aren't specifically targeting this data.

Rootkits give the software unrestricted access to all the data on the computer. You then trust that they don't use that access for anything nefarious... Aswell as trusting there's no bugs/vulnerabilities in that software that give a third party access to that data.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

Ah, my misunderstanding - kernel level anti-cheat is also a bit bizarre tbh, like people really really don't understand the level of control they're handing over to random games companies.

[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 19 points 1 month ago

What's happened is GTA Online suddenly switched to using BattlEye for it's anti-cheating. And this broke Steam Deck compatibility suddenly. Now, this is bad enough but reports state that BattlEye will work with the Steam Deck, and all Rockstar needs to do is just send a message to BattlEye and it'll just work. But Rockstar doesn't seem to be interested in sending that email.