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Valve seems to have quietly rolled out a major upgrade to their Anti-Cheat system and it’s apparently wrecking havoc on cheat providers (lemmy.nz)
submitted 11 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ig buying a game will give Valve + the dev/publisher Money (cause Valve Takes 30%)

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Go buy hollow Knight, or schedule 1, or anything from an indie studio. Support both good devs and studios, and valve. And you even get a fun game to go with your support. Honestly, everyone wins.

.... Does anyone still wonder why I boycotted all other gaming platforms other than steam?

You think you're going to get anti-cheat this good from the likes of epic? Ha.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

… Does anyone still wonder why I boycotted all other gaming platforms other than steam?

what about GOG?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Oh, right, they're cool.

Along with humble bundle. Those guys are cool too.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

GOG is awesome but limited - I can't think of any modern multiplayer game sold on GOG. Lot of great singleplayer ones though.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I assume Steam makes it easier to make multiplayer games then GOG?

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Much more so - I think largely because of Steam's game server networking and update infrastructure.

Also anti-cheats (of any sort) and DRM-free games are kind of oil and water.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep, and i know this Cause one of my friends has that steamworks sdk and he finds steams api easier to work with (for multiplayer)