Comment by pmarreck

Comment by pmarreck 2 days ago

3 replies

I remember trying to install Valorant for the first time, and its ridiculously invasive anticheat kernel mod (or whatever it's called) gave me my first blue (or was it red??) screen I'd seen on Windows in years.

Immediately uninstalled it and haven't ever played Valorant to this day. Fuck that crap, if your community is so toxic that you need a rootkit to keep cheaters at bay, then maybe it's more of a community problem than a technological one. And yes, if this means that you have to block all of China in order to do so, then that is still a community problem. Put your rootkits on your Chinese servers, separate them out, and let the cheaters fight amongst themselves.

xeonmc 2 days ago

Is it any coincidence that such state is from the same company behind League of Legends?

philipallstar 2 days ago

> if your community is so toxic that

It's nothing to do with a toxic community.

  • ohdearnopls 2 days ago

    It might not be the sole reason (and most likely isn’t), but toxic communities breed these sort of behaviours, especially in games that are extremely hostile to casual players.