They’re not just making that up. Cheaters migrated to Linux because it was easier to bypass the anti-cheat protections there. If the anti-cheat is equally effective in both operating systems, they’ll have no reason to cut off a portion of their customer base.
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Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have this feeling that even if valve makes it work, rootkit anticheat devs will push updates that intentionally make it not work again. Probably with more claims like the majority of cheaters being linux users
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I would love to see actual sources for this. On both sides.
Every time I’ve tried looking up numbers (usually because of a passing interest, and never any level of in depth research) I’ve come back with interesting tidbits like “the total number of cheaters banned in one month was greater than the total lifetime number of unique Linux users of the same game (sometimes an order of magnitude or more greater).” With that statistic being pretty consistent across games and time periods.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 21 hours ago
I can already tell you that you’re looking at wrong numbers and thus coming to the wrong conclusion. Of course the total number of cheaters will be bigger on windows, 94% of PC gamers play on Windows. That’s like saying Monaco is such a poor country because their GDP is only 30 million compared to the 30 trillion of the US GDP. Except Monaco isn’t poor, the US is simply magnitudes bigger than Monaco.
If you comparable numbers you should compare the proportions of cheaters in relation to the whole userbase of the platform.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
So, do you have sources for accurate numbers?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 21 hours ago
Did you just make this up?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Of course not. Go read the reports of any developer who once enabled Linux compatibility and then disabled it.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 18 hours ago
Interesting. Pretty much no cheat developer is making cheats for Linux as far as I can see it. Tried googling for some and could not find any
missingno@fedia.io 1 day ago
If you'd read the article, Valve says they're working with anticheat devs to come up with a solution together. This can only happen with their cooperation, if Valve somehow could bypass it on their own that would represent a vulnerability that should and would get patched.