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Cthulhu_ 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level ant...

Well no, because they ruin the online experience making people not play the game.

(in theory, GTA online has had / still has huge problems with bots and cheats but still earns the publisher hundreds of millions a year)

throwaway48476 8 months ago | [–]

They have problems because they're cheap and don't want to pay to host servers. They don't want to let people host their own authoritative server either because of the $billions in fake money.

bigstrat2003 8 months ago | [–]

I understand that cheaters suck. I'm saying that in this case, the cure (kernel access) is worse than the disease.

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