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Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 week ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 43 points 6 days ago

I wonder if you phrased it the way the Play store does: This game wants permission to:

send SMS messages
make calls
know your location
stalk your family
raid your fridge
access, read and upload files
manage and add contacts
cup your balls
go through your trash
irritate your boss

etc.

Think anyone would install them?

[-] not_so_handsome_jack@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Cup my balls? Go on...

[-] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 days ago

i dONt hAVe anYThinG To HIdE

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

Anyone who says that while wearing pants is a filthy liar.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

I mean it's also pretty cold without pants.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

looks at Disney pluses binding arbitration clause

Yup

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

of course, people don't even look at play store permissions

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

I suppose they do suffer from the "Known in the state of Cancer to cause California" problem. A bubble level app wants in-app purchases and GPS access.

[-] ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 6 days ago

I bought Sea of Thieves about 5 years ago. Recently, they added kernal-level anticheat (which does precisely fuck-all to actually stop cheating). While that is annoying, I'm not particularly worried because the studio that makes that game is owned by Microsoft, and like all Microsoft products, it was banished to my windows partition with the rest of the spyware.

[-] MoonHawk@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Well... kernel level software can access everything on your computer. That includes other partitions and unmounted drives

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that's something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)

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[-] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

This will be helpful for discerning if a game can run on the Steam Deck. There's not many games that don't have verification (Either by Valve or ProtonDB) but for newer games with anticheat it will serve as a good rule of thumb i imagine

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Lots of games with anti cheat auto work under wine/proton. The most on top of my head example is Elden ring. Runs fine on my desktop with arch, as well as my steam deck.