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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)
submitted 2 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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[–] doctortran@lemm.ee 74 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It feels like it's part and parcel with an overall, growing trend in software to be openly hostile to any system wherein the user has proper admin rights.

Because the potential for someone to use those rights to fuck with the software merits refusing to support systems where they can.

Further entrenching the notion that, to participate in a "modern" consumer software environment, the user must agree to be handcuffed on their own hardware.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The potential?

People are hacking the shit out of any online game without proper anticheats

[–] knightly@pawb.social 30 points 2 months ago

*with or without

FTFY

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Normal users do that on Windows, why would anyone install Linux for that