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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    2 months 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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      2 months 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.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        time for refunds.

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