• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Right? This game requires users install a kernel-level anti-cheat in order to run. That’s a huge privacy and security risk just to play a non-competitive video game. Nobody seemed to care about that, but signing up for PlayStation Network? That’s where gamers draw the line!

    I mean, I’m glad they’re finally pushing back against terrible corporate decisions but what set them off is puzzling.

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      8 months ago

      The difference is everyone CAN install a bad anti-cheat, or decide to not do it.

      But if people who bought the game suddenly CAN’T legally play it anymore, because PSN doesn’t allow accounts in their country, they don’t even have a choice.

      Selling the game in those regions in the first place was deeply wrong, but then taking away the ability to play AFTER they sold it to people, that’s a bridge too far.

      And we’re not just talking about most of Africa (not that that would be less bad), we’re also talking about countries like Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, those are EU members, how is there no PSN available there?

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      8 months ago

      The people who cared about it never played the game.

      Like me; I loved the first helldivers but noped out of this one.

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      8 months ago

      People are already playing games with anticheat like Apex, Fortnite, Valorant, League, Genshin Impact, etc so that part is the least surprising.

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        8 months ago

        It’s not about anticheat per se but about kernel-level anticheats, which are just overkill in a PvE game. I’m not sure about the other games you mentioned, but at least Apex has no kernel-level anticheat.