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.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Articles a joke since it doesn’t mention that the people pissed off are the linux players. Not the cheaters but the linux users.

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      15 hours ago

      There’s a patch for proton for Battleye. My understanding is that it’s really easy for developers to support Linux with it, but I think they’re using their own engine, so things may be harder. Regardless, that’s bullshit if they added something without considering Linux users.

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        2 hours ago

        time for refunds.

        Steam has refunded games that added anti-cheat that broke linux playability in the past iirc

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          1 hour ago

          They have also denied refunds if a game is running in the background and you have 100 hours while editing a spreadsheet, so tread lightly

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            1 hour ago

            Didnt hear about that one, but I do recall some stories of people playing hundreds of hours, dev making a major catastrophic change, and steam still giving the refund.

    • April (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 hours ago

      After having talked to some on the GTA V SCUD, so many think we are in support of the cheaters and are framing our frustration around us just wanting the cheaters back.