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Re:Thank You, Valve by cinntaile on Monday February 07, 2022 @08:45AM (#30244720)
Why does it matter if you built the computer with your own hands? It's sad that we need invasive anticheat but if that's what it takes to get a somewhat cheater free gaming environment I am ok with that. I'll take that over ruined games by cheaters any day of the week.
Re:Thank You, Valve by zentiggr on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:35AM (#30246233)
Until some overly agressive anti-cheat that has kernel level access, decides to blacklist your machine, and because of whatever black boxed bugs, blocks your machine's Ethernet connections, all of them, and now you're stuck until you reimage and remove that borked kernel, except that they implemented an IME level code chunk that immediately downloads the anti-cheat code on the IME channel, and now your machine can never connect to the internet again until you replace the motherboard.

Convince me that won't happen...

Re:Thank You, Valve by cinntaile on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:48AM (#30246409)
It sounds like you know more about how these work than I do so I'll assume it can happen. It's a risk to consider for sure. I obviously don't want this to happen to me, but I'll still take this major inconvenience that a few individuals might suffer from over cheaters in game that everyone playing the game suffers from. I'm talking cheating in multiplayer games to be clear. I guess I'll get downvoted again, but I'll take those downvotes in stride.