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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)

submitted 1 month 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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[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's disgusting! Where do those criminals gather, so I could go an express my utter disappointment to them directly?

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Sounds like it's working

[–] art@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I'm not going to condone this, but also.... haha.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Good.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The most confusing part about this is that people are still playing GTA Online. Why...?

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[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

I really hope they don't find a way to blame the linux community for this. Even if we hate kernel level anti cheat, I think most of us were happy with the refund from Valve lol

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'm conflicted here

On one hand, I play GTA Online, and the amount of hackers is getting out of hand. Most are chill, some are extremely annoying and blow up everyone in the lobby with 800 million explosions a second. In this case, I'm annoyed that I can't play it and glad there's anti cheat.

On the other hand, I didn't realize that BattlEye would prevent Linux users from playing entirely. I'm not a Linux user (yet) myself, but that really sucks. Also, rockstar is extremely predatory with the shark cards (it was worse with Red Dead Online!) so they do kinda deserve it as some form of karma for being terrible

Edit: EAC -> BattlEye

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[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I don't play these games or really any game that needs anti cheat. What's the controversy? I assume the anti cheat is awful?

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[–] polle@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Iam out of the loop. What kind of cheats are available in gta online? Edit: or what was available.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least you can turn it off in singleplayer and still use your mods there. That's a pretty important consideration imho.

How do those community servers for RP work? Do they require mods? Do they still work?

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

As it should be. Rockstar Games deserves nothing less.

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