I don’t quite understand the criticism. It’s not gonna be top of the line, but it’s more than enough to replace my dying laptop from 2015 that I pretty much only ever use like a desktop anyway. And I can save myself the time and effort of picking parts, building, and dealing with shit not working as expected.
There are already anti cheat options on Linux. They just don’t put any dev time into them because it’s a small market currently.
EAC works fine enough, and it turns off when the game is off, and should uninstall with the game, so people don’t hate it so much.
But I dropped all interest in Helldivers 2 because of that crap, which sucks because it seemed like such a fun game. And I’m not touching anything Riot for the same reason. These “just trust us bro” always-on, deeply embedded rootkits are just unethical.
That is too far even for taking school tests, it’s indefensible and absolutely nonsense for a game.
It’s definitely something I can see both sides of though. It would suck to put a huge chunk of time and effort into a multiplayer game just to have cheaters ruin it for everyone on launch. Any game that isn’t moderated or making effort to deter them gets overrun quickly.
I don’t understand the mentality that drives people to buy cheats just to feel better about themselves, but it’s clearly there.
TBH though…I don’t remember stuff being this bad when private servers were more of a thing. Battlefield 2 / 2142 / 3 / 4 had ranked vs. unranked servers. The good private-run ones had mods to ban cheaters, the ranked ones had stricter enforcement. It seemed fine and we had fun…
Maybe I’m missing something…