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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
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Hopefully this encourages developers and publishers to re-evaluate kernel level anything.
Sadly i don't think it has any impact. For example, for Riot games no one complained about Vanguard except Linux gamers.
I didnt buy Helldivers 2 because of it. Explained why to all my friends who kept trying to convince me to buy it. I didn’t convince them, they didn’t convince me… but hey I appreciate the warning in the future.
Meanwhile hd2 runs just fine under Linux, without kernel fuckery.
Funnily enough it was HD2 that finally convinced a few of my friends to hop on over the Linux
Yeah, i mean it's not useless to make it visible. It's a good news in the end.
Plenty of others complained, the difference was just that they could swallow the pill and keep playing. Linux players were just fucked.
True ! But now we have an excuse to play better games