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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rockstar have already mentioned that they are working to get the game working on Steam Deck, and by extension Linux in general.

Shouldn't be too hard since BattlEye is supposed to be compatible and there's a BattlEye Proton runtime.

[–] tiddy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Yet they rolled this out before that comparability works, essentially updating out some people's ownership of the game